Catalyst 5.8 released (and on DH a day before ATI.com)!

LeanWolf · Aug 17, 2005, 01:33 AM

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The_Neon_Cowboy · Aug 17, 2005, 01:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erroneus

A great release with a lot of good and wanted fixed, great job ATI.

All though it seems the OpenGL improvements has stopped, some month back you were talking about improving the OpenGL drivers alot, seems to me this has stopped

But maybe something special for 5.9 together with support for r520?

DH and ATI rock!

Such improvement is something that happens over time. Many of you guys that
are big on OpenGL seem to be looking for a total rewite from scratch. Thats not
time nor cost efective.

They have improved but you'd have to run a bunch of OpenGL benchmarks
to be sure by how much. Most stuff is DirectX anyways and leading into windows
vista it sounds like what MS is planning will hamper OpenGL performance. If it's
true that mean DirectX will even be more prevalent in fallowing years.

DH and ATI rock

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erroneus

:/ Seems like the value card is to be released first ( http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2501 ) If this is true, ATI must really have some problems delivering high-end chips for r520

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Well ATI does go out on a limb to bring you the latest technology. For
example the biggest problems spring from the moving to and 90nm
process it self.

NVIDIA’s new G70 finally uses thing like low-k . The same low-K that
ATI has used in R360 and RV360 and up. That when NVIDIA was asked
why they didn't use it they even went so far as to call called it dangerous.
It allows Lower heat and less power usage and has been successfully used
by ATI for a couple years now.. Now finally NV picks it up... Now amd, intel,
ATI etc will have gone 90nm and NV will still be behind the times in the regard.

I'm pretty excited about the upcomeing cards should be verry interesting....

DH and ATI rock

Volcom929 · Aug 17, 2005, 01:40 AM

Great set of drivers once again. CCC works great and BF2 looks a lot better/

DH and ATI Rock!!!!!!!!

BWX · Aug 17, 2005, 01:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Neon_Cowboy

Assuming people ask for it then you'd assume they will incorporate it.
But if they do the there goes a part of the the enthusiast crowd for
Using moded drivers.

I'm not sure about the legal disclaimer that would be required because even
if you don't hold Ati at fault if you fried you monitor you should would associate
it with them. Even though you may know what you doing a good 90% of users
don't and yes they will hold a grudge @ ATI after going “what this?” and frying
their expensive monitor.! Their fault , they will be complaining to ATI, calling emailing,
tech support. People that many would even besides being be angry and would buy
a competitors product.

Yeah that is a valid concern- I was thinking about that a while ago.. Maybe a good way to incorporate this would be to have this feature only work with a reg hack program that activates it, like an unnamed competitor's coolbits.

Maybe a good name for the reghack would be coolres. People that don't know enough about monitors and drivers to use it without damaging their hardware wouldn't even know about it, or what it does. Most monitors have built in protection now, I know mine does and it is more than 3 years old. People couldn't complain then, as it would be an officially unsupported feature. It would be a cool thing to have in official drivers anyway.

Also something that I noticed was that in Omega drivers, there is never a resolution that my monitor does not support.. Not sure how that works, because 1200 x 900 is not listed in the ATI drivers, but it is in the Omega drivers as well as other custom resolutions, but none of them ever go over the bandwidth of my monitor or "overclock it" in any way.. hmmmm...

Oh, and [COLOR=Red]DH AND ATI ROCKS!!!![/COLOR]

Erroneus · Aug 17, 2005, 01:43 AM

True the specs seems great on r520 and the move to 90nm also sounds promingsing, but I fear ATI has had alot of problems this time, resulting in a slower r520 then expected, eg. it will be released with 24 pipelines instead of 32, which could open up for a 7800gtx ultra card with 32 pipes :O

But ok lets be optimistic and hope r520 is going to be such a big suprise as r300 were

DH and ATI rock

LHC · Aug 17, 2005, 01:46 AM

That video card would be an excellent upgrade to my 9600SE

Though I never win anything, and I don't think I'll be winning this with people posting over 20 times

DH and ATI pwn!

Sargentwhitey · Aug 17, 2005, 01:53 AM

This'll be great for all of the ATi Equipped systems I look after. Mine isn't ATi anymore however

, but oh well

DH and ATi Rock!

BWX · Aug 17, 2005, 01:55 AM

ATI and DH rock!

Dazog · Aug 17, 2005, 02:00 AM

I think i got an unfair advantage running theses

Pictures speak 1000's words

BOB050082 · Aug 17, 2005, 02:07 AM

woop woop

DH and ATI rock

calidan · Aug 17, 2005, 02:07 AM

DH and ATI rock!!

Majin GeoDooD · Aug 17, 2005, 02:11 AM

Well Zardon, I'm glad I took your advice.

I did some quick benchmarking with what I already had installed (Doom 3 is at 1024 HQ):

Omega 4.12:

3DMark01: 18,662
Aquamark 3: 50,187
Doom 3: 52.5 FPS

ATI 5.8:

3DMark01: 17,806
Aquamark 3: 51,490
Doom 3: 54.0 FPS

Other than the drop in 3DMark01 (which doesn't really matter), I like the improvement

. The CCC is looking nice, and runs fast.

DH and ATI rock!! Especially ATI!!

Volcom929 · Aug 17, 2005, 02:13 AM

BF2 is sooo much smoother guys. Get it while its hot.

DH and ATI Rock!!!!!!!!

iplaycs · Aug 17, 2005, 02:20 AM

they really did improve CCC whole lot!!

DH and ATI rock!

driverdriver · Aug 17, 2005, 02:35 AM

would go great with my X800 XL

DH and ATI rock!!

kalavera · Aug 17, 2005, 02:40 AM

Lets wait for the "upgraded" versions!!

For when a official full mobility support drivers?

DH and ATI rock

Fantasma · Aug 17, 2005, 02:41 AM

I want ATI to release the r520 soon, I can´t wait to buy my last AGP card

Good CCC improvement
Also, I don´t want to disturb but................

DH and ATI rock !!!!!!!!!!!!

Volcom929 · Aug 17, 2005, 03:00 AM

WoW is runnin great too.

DH and ATI Rock!!!!!!! As always

The_Neon_Cowboy · Aug 17, 2005, 03:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Majin GeoDooD

Well Zardon, I'm glad I took your advice.

I did some quick benchmarking with what I already had installed (Doom 3 is at 1024 HQ):

Omega 4.12:

3DMark01: 18,662
Aquamark 3: 50,187
Doom 3: 52.5 FPS

ATI 5.8:

3DMark01: 17,806
Aquamark 3: 51,490
Doom 3: 54.0 FPS

Other than the drop in 3DMark01 (which doesn't really matter), I like the improvement

. The CCC is looking nice, and runs fast.

DH and ATI rock!! Especially ATI!!

You really should look into moveing to windows XP for better performance.

BTW: You 2001SE scores seem a little "strange" You might close anything
running in the background and run it again to be sure. Make sure your
performance slider is set on the same value etc...

DH and ATI rock

aceboomer · Aug 17, 2005, 03:02 AM

I'm also running x64. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to test this set out, but looking forward to it. Thanks guys.

DH and ATI Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quarter · Aug 17, 2005, 03:03 AM

WOOT!! BF2 fixes!!!

DH and ATI rock

Erroneus · Aug 17, 2005, 03:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fantasma

I want ATI to release the r520 soon, I can´t wait to buy my last AGP card

I really don't think r520 is going to get an AGP version, maybe rv515, but not the highend r520 model

DH and ATI rock!!

OpusP.Gladiator · Aug 17, 2005, 03:05 AM

gotta love this...

It could be like xmas almost year around.... hehe well one a month anywyas.... so U know

[color=Magenta]DriverHeaven & ATI Rock yer socks off![/color]

Majin GeoDooD · Aug 17, 2005, 03:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Neon_Cowboy

You really should look into moveing to windows XP for better performance.

BTW: You 2001SE scores seem a little "strange" You might close anything
running in the background and run it again to be sure. Make sure your
performance slider is set on the same value etc...

DH and ATI rock

I'm just not quite a big a fan of XP yet as I want to be. I have a legal copy of XP SP2 sitting around waiting to be installed.

Also, 3DMark scores.. strange as in low? I always thought they were a bit low myself. I had everything closed.

DH and ATI rock!

malvado · Aug 17, 2005, 03:10 AM

Nice, lets see if these drivers improve some of my games a bit

DH and ATI rock

El-Diablo · Aug 17, 2005, 03:13 AM

I've always owned ATi Cards, and bought ATi Cards for people who buy comps from me, ATi Rocks nothing better, and idon't care what people say your guy's drivers are the best!

thanks for continuing with quality product

HD and ATI ROCK!

MiDri · Aug 17, 2005, 03:13 AM

Passed out, awake now again....

DH and ATI rock!!!!!!!!!!

UZ7 · Aug 17, 2005, 03:14 AM

New drivers out? Oh Noes!

DH and ATI rock (ya know?)

Junkguy · Aug 17, 2005, 03:22 AM

Thanks for the drivers, Terry and crew!

I was hoping for new drivers soon, Battlefield 2 runs on my system like peanut butter and jelly

It even broke my Radeon 9800 and caused artifacts in my BIOS! (really) o_O But that was probably just a coincidence.

I'm looking forward to the control panel tomorrow! After all, Battlefield 2 can't run when CCC is using 50 gigs of ram. (j/k terry)

DH and ATI ROCK!

Poppi · Aug 17, 2005, 03:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erroneus

I really don't think r520 is going to get an AGP version, maybe rv515, but not the highend r520 model

DH and ATI rock!!

What makes you think this?

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Majin GeoDooD HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Woodbridge, VA Posts: 1,117 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Well Zardon, I'm glad I took your advice. I did some quick benchmarking with what I already had installed (Doom 3 is at 1024 HQ): Omega 4.12: 3DMark01: 18,662 Aquamark 3: 50,187 Doom 3: 52.5 FPS ATI 5.8: 3DMark01: 17,806 Aquamark 3: 51,490 Doom 3: 54.0 FPS Other than the drop in 3DMark01 (which doesn't really matter), I like the improvement . The CCC is looking nice, and runs fast. DH and ATI rock!! Especially ATI!! __________________ Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) ~Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.55GHz~ Gigabyte P35-DS3L ~ eVGA GeForce 8800GT 512MB @ 690/1000 ~ OCZ Titanium 2x2GB ~ Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750 GB ~ WD Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB ~ NEC ND-3540A DVD-RW ~ Rosewill RP600V2 600w PSU ~ Antec Nine Hundred Mid-Tower

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Fantasma HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Lorca (Spain) Posts: 757 Rep Power: 61 System Specs	I want ATI to release the r520 soon, I can´t wait to buy my last AGP card Good CCC improvement Also, I don´t want to disturb but................ DH and ATI rock !!!!!!!!!!!!

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