Catalyst 2.4 Released

Rav · 11-14-02, 03:25 PM

Various fixes and speed improvments, also finally adds a refresh rate fix for Directx! OpenGL refresh fix will be in next driver release they say. Head over to ATI's site and pick them up, I'll post some results later tonight if I get a chance!

http://www.ati.com/

-Rav

Johnny Knoxville · 11-14-02, 03:36 PM

yeah this is the leaked drivers i posted about last week this is 6200c which means it may be slightly modified from the leaked 6200

11-14-02, 04:00 PM

I hope this one works the leaked one screwed up my system.Gah must get home!

Johnny Knoxville · 11-14-02, 04:08 PM

I get exactly the same score as the leaked driver, 9408.

rb26dett · 11-14-02, 04:15 PM

This driver sucks.

Mr. Chambers · 11-14-02, 05:29 PM

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Originally posted by rb26dett
This driver sucks.

clarification as to why?

rb26dett · 11-14-02, 05:54 PM

All my games dropped 30+ FPS, 3Dmark2001 went from 14000+ to 13735, bah .. I reinatlled the old ones (6193)

funnyperson1 · 11-14-02, 07:59 PM

and people say Ati doesnt make enough drivers.....how about two drivers in two days lol .....ill tell you how they work soon

Mr. Chambers · 11-14-02, 08:37 PM

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Originally posted by rb26dett
All my games dropped 30+ FPS, 3Dmark2001 went from 14000+ to 13735, bah .. I reinatlled the old ones (6193)

i believe you had some settings or something fluky with your install then... 30+ drop in fps is insane at the same settings...

rb26dett · 11-14-02, 09:21 PM

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Originally posted by Mr. Chambers

i believe you had some settings or something fluky with your install then... 30+ drop in fps is insane at the same settings...

my settings are fine , those drivers are lame.
I reinstalled my old ones and went back to 14000+ and my fps are back

Rav · 11-14-02, 10:12 PM

I did get some improvement in performance. IQ seems excellent as always, perhaps better. However I was pretty upset to find that the Refresh fix didn't work at all. Vsync doesn't seem to work all the time either (Directx). Looks like I still have to use 3rd party tools.

-Rav

PsycoPhreak · 11-14-02, 10:23 PM

The 2.4 Catalyst drivers seemed to have raised the performance I get.

Only problem I see is the same problem I've had from the beginning when I first bought my 8500, during the fill rate test on 3dmark....I get split second "pauses" where the textures just stop moving..then start again....seems like it's not a driver issue, but a problem somewhere in my system...I see the same "pauses" during some games as well...( possibly due to the fact that My MSI 845E MAX2 BLR board won't allow me to adjust the AGP aperature size and has locked it at 64Mb....actually..all the software I have used reports the AGP aperature at 55Mb...when it SHOULD be 128Mb )

Other than that, ATI has got their act together as far as drivers, and if your seeing a huge performance drop just by changing drivers, ( like the loss of 30+ FPS ) then something with the install went wrong, or some sort of corruption took place...( like within the registry...a file..ETC...ETC...)

DaddyB · 11-14-02, 10:36 PM

My 3dmark score went up a couple hundred points, the drivers seem good. Did anyone check out the new options in the control panel though? You can enable fast writes and change your AGP interface (AGP 2x, 4x, 1x) right from the control panel...of course I tried to enable fast writes and it didnt work but I think thats because I have an 8500dv.

I use refresh force so I dont know if the refresh rate fix worked or not.

Rav · 11-14-02, 11:02 PM

I wasn't able to set fast writes on my 9700 Pro. From what I've read it doesn't make a difference though.

-Rav

Kunaak · 11-15-02, 02:45 AM

I don't see the 2.4 there.
the only driver there is still the 2.3...

DaddyB · 11-15-02, 02:52 AM

Try looking here, I just looked and they were still there (for some reason www.mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html just gives me a blank screen so I tried http://ati.com/support/driver.html instead and it worked).

Kingslayer · 11-15-02, 06:38 AM

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Originally posted by Rav
I did get some improvement in performance. IQ seems excellent as always, perhaps better. However I was pretty upset to find that the Refresh fix didn't work at all. Vsync doesn't seem to work all the time either (Directx). Looks like I still have to use 3rd party tools.

-Rav

What 3rd party tools do you prefer?

Stumpjumper5200 · 11-15-02, 09:44 AM

What you need to do is get the DirectX9 release candidate (beta) and the dx9 radeon drivers. ATI's got about 4 demos for it, and they are pretty cool. (Oh yeah, you need a 9700pro, I think the other 9xxx cards would work too, they're dx9 ready)

Remeber that picture showing off what the 9700 could do? The one with the reflective spheres and stuff? Well that's what one of the demos is and its absolutely amazing.

Rav · 11-15-02, 09:51 AM

I use a program called RefreshFix that make it so only certain modes are available. For example, instead of 1280x1204 with 60Hz-85Hz, I set it so only 85Hz is available, so it always defaults to that instead of 60hz. I used to use RefreshLock which runs in systray, but that doesn't work with all games (MW4). Has the ATI refresh override worked for anyone here?

-Rav

Kingslayer · 11-15-02, 03:04 PM

Never tried it. But I have never experienced any refresh rate problems either.

11-14-02, 03:25 PM	Thread Starter #1
Rav Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Philthadelphia	Catalyst 2.4 Released Various fixes and speed improvments, also finally adds a refresh rate fix for Directx! OpenGL refresh fix will be in next driver release they say. Head over to ATI's site and pick them up, I'll post some results later tonight if I get a chance! http://www.ati.com/ -Rav __________________ + Intel i860, i760, i530 + I kill threads like a mass-murderer
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11-14-02, 03:36 PM	#2
Johnny Knoxville Disabled Join Date: May 2002	yeah this is the leaked drivers i posted about last week this is 6200c which means it may be slightly modified from the leaked 6200
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11-14-02, 04:00 PM	#3
Dragon_Engineer2 Guest	I hope this one works the leaked one screwed up my system.Gah must get home!
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11-14-02, 04:08 PM	#4
Johnny Knoxville Disabled Join Date: May 2002	I get exactly the same score as the leaked driver, 9408.
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11-14-02, 04:15 PM	#5
rb26dett Disabled Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Chicago, USA	Re: Catalyst 2.4 Released This driver sucks. Last edited by rb26dett; 11-14-02 at 04:56 PM.
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11-14-02, 05:54 PM	#7
rb26dett Disabled Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Chicago, USA	All my games dropped 30+ FPS, 3Dmark2001 went from 14000+ to 13735, bah .. I reinatlled the old ones (6193)
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11-14-02, 07:59 PM	#8
funnyperson1 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Northern VA	and people say Ati doesnt make enough drivers.....how about two drivers in two days lol .....ill tell you how they work soon __________________ "Strong with the fold this boy is, fold you must"-NASSoccer its a shame you cant ban people for being ignorant fanboys.... My Heatware [Gigabyte MA790X-UDP4][PHII 940BE][Thermalright Ultra90][2x2GB OCZ Reaper HPC][Palit HD4850][Enhance 5150GH][Windows 7,Ubuntu 12.04]
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11-14-02, 10:12 PM	Thread Starter #11
Rav Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Philthadelphia	I did get some improvement in performance. IQ seems excellent as always, perhaps better. However I was pretty upset to find that the Refresh fix didn't work at all. Vsync doesn't seem to work all the time either (Directx). Looks like I still have to use 3rd party tools. -Rav __________________ + Intel i860, i760, i530 + I kill threads like a mass-murderer
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11-14-02, 10:23 PM	#12
PsycoPhreak Member Join Date: Dec 2001	The 2.4 Catalyst drivers seemed to have raised the performance I get. Only problem I see is the same problem I've had from the beginning when I first bought my 8500, during the fill rate test on 3dmark....I get split second "pauses" where the textures just stop moving..then start again....seems like it's not a driver issue, but a problem somewhere in my system...I see the same "pauses" during some games as well...( possibly due to the fact that My MSI 845E MAX2 BLR board won't allow me to adjust the AGP aperature size and has locked it at 64Mb....actually..all the software I have used reports the AGP aperature at 55Mb...when it SHOULD be 128Mb ) Other than that, ATI has got their act together as far as drivers, and if your seeing a huge performance drop just by changing drivers, ( like the loss of 30+ FPS ) then something with the install went wrong, or some sort of corruption took place...( like within the registry...a file..ETC...ETC...)
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11-14-02, 10:36 PM	#13
DaddyB Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada	My 3dmark score went up a couple hundred points, the drivers seem good. Did anyone check out the new options in the control panel though? You can enable fast writes and change your AGP interface (AGP 2x, 4x, 1x) right from the control panel...of course I tried to enable fast writes and it didnt work but I think thats because I have an 8500dv. I use refresh force so I dont know if the refresh rate fix worked or not. __________________ Mobile XP2500@2700MHz 208x13 @2.0V†††††††Dell Dimension 8100 P4 1.3 Abit NF7-S, 1024MB Corsair XMS3200††††††††††512MB PC800 RDRAM, T.B. Santa Cruz ATi Radeon X850XT, Klipsch PM 5.1†††††††††††AIW Radeon 9800, 17" Trinitron Dangerden RBX, 47c load, Dell 2005FPW†††††††Altec Lansing 4.1, THX certified
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11-14-02, 11:02 PM	Thread Starter #14
Rav Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Philthadelphia	I wasn't able to set fast writes on my 9700 Pro. From what I've read it doesn't make a difference though. -Rav __________________ + Intel i860, i760, i530 + I kill threads like a mass-murderer
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11-15-02, 02:45 AM	#15
Kunaak Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Juneau Alaska	I don't see the 2.4 there. the only driver there is still the 2.3... __________________ when you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
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11-15-02, 02:52 AM	#16
DaddyB Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada	Try looking here, I just looked and they were still there (for some reason www.mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html just gives me a blank screen so I tried http://ati.com/support/driver.html instead and it worked). __________________ Mobile XP2500@2700MHz 208x13 @2.0V†††††††Dell Dimension 8100 P4 1.3 Abit NF7-S, 1024MB Corsair XMS3200††††††††††512MB PC800 RDRAM, T.B. Santa Cruz ATi Radeon X850XT, Klipsch PM 5.1†††††††††††AIW Radeon 9800, 17" Trinitron Dangerden RBX, 47c load, Dell 2005FPW†††††††Altec Lansing 4.1, THX certified
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11-15-02, 09:44 AM	#18
Stumpjumper5200 Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Best 1/4 Mile Time: 13.57 @ 101.13	What you need to do is get the DirectX9 release candidate (beta) and the dx9 radeon drivers. ATI's got about 4 demos for it, and they are pretty cool. (Oh yeah, you need a 9700pro, I think the other 9xxx cards would work too, they're dx9 ready) Remeber that picture showing off what the 9700 could do? The one with the reflective spheres and stuff? Well that's what one of the demos is and its absolutely amazing.
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11-15-02, 09:51 AM	Thread Starter #19
Rav Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Philthadelphia	I use a program called RefreshFix that make it so only certain modes are available. For example, instead of 1280x1204 with 60Hz-85Hz, I set it so only 85Hz is available, so it always defaults to that instead of 60hz. I used to use RefreshLock which runs in systray, but that doesn't work with all games (MW4). Has the ATI refresh override worked for anyone here? -Rav __________________ + Intel i860, i760, i530 + I kill threads like a mass-murderer
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11-15-02, 03:04 PM	#20
Kingslayer Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Port Charlotte, Florida	Never tried it. But I have never experienced any refresh rate problems either. __________________ "Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have made a difference in the world. Marines don't have that problem" Ronald Reagan Proud member of the XDC
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