Catalyst 6.8 is out.

TRF-Inferno · Aug 18, 2006

Looks like a nice driver release!

As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in various situations.

Improved shader compiler and transform engine optimizations have led to many significant performance gains in OpenGL applications across the entire Radeon® X1000 series of products. These include:

Doom 3 performance improves as much as 6.5%
Quake 4 (v1.2 or higher) performance improves as much as 18%
Chronicles of Riddick performance improves as much as 20%. Average improvements of 5-10% are commonly seen
Prey performance improves as much as 16%

Optimizations made to ATI's graphics memory manager have led to significant gains in DirectX applications that make heavy use of graphics memory on 256MB ATI graphics cards:

-3DMark06 performance improves as much as 22% on single ATI Radeon® X1000 series cards with 256MB of graphics memory at 1280x1024 and higher when anti-aliasing is enabled. The largest gains are found on the ATI Radeon® X1800 series and ATI Radeon® X1900 series of products
-Call of Duty 2 performance improves as much as 30% on single ATI Radeon® X550 cards or higher with 256MB of video memory at 1280x1024 and higher when anti-aliasing enabled. The largest gains are found on the ATI Radeon® X1800 series and ATI Radeon® X1900 series of products

This driver is officially available on ATi's home page. I really want to try them out but my system is down at the moment.

CGR · Aug 18, 2006

I'll install them when I get home.

Super Nade · Aug 18, 2006

Does it auto-downclock when a movie is played inside a game?

chevro1et · Aug 18, 2006

Super Nade said:
Does it auto-downclock when a movie is played inside a game?

I thought that issue was related to having ATiTool installed/ startup services disabled, not related to the drivers themselves :-/

6.8's available here, and yes, they are mislabelled once installed, but that is explained here

EDIT: seven stars, babae!!! :attn:

vixro · Aug 18, 2006

**** it, I'll install them and give it a shot. I love being the test dummy.

Super Nade · Aug 18, 2006

chevro1et said:
I thought that issue was related to having ATiTool installed/ startup services disabled, not related to the drivers themselves

Not quite true. This happens irrespective of certain services being enabled/disabled.

There are a few others in this thread who have faced the same issue.
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=463155&page=2

deathman20 · Aug 18, 2006

Oooh new drivers

We like new drivers hehe

I'll give it a shot either tomorrow or late tonight if I'm sober enough

BTW The downclocking issue it happens when movies are played. The issue resides with ATITool as there must be some sort of bug with 6.4 and up that was causing the issue of it downclocking and staying that way. BTW Its not a service issue as if services are disabled it takes effect either way its a driver conflict with the software.

Rattle · Aug 18, 2006

i'm there will try now

Rattle · Aug 18, 2006

I dont notice much FPS diff, but I do notice better IQ in fear which is impossible it was so good before, and improved IQ without fps loss is always a good thing.

One thing I do notice is the QUICKNESS in which CCC opens now...

anyone else notice a speed increase in CCC? maybe thats the increase they were talking about lmao....

vixro · Aug 18, 2006

Hmm, when using 668/792 clocks compared to my 675/805 clocks, I had only a slightly lower 06 score, yet I had more frames in test #1 on the lower clocked card with 6.8 compared to 6.7 at the higher clocks. Can't compare equal clocks because 675/805 was unstable.

(my card likes the memory, but not the core)

edit: 05 score went up. 12,170 @ 675/792 (6.7) to 12,176 @ 668/792

Merlin7777 · Aug 18, 2006

All right! Some performance increases, that is good to know. I will update my cards when I have the chance.

@md0Cer · Aug 18, 2006

Nice! I ought to try these out. The one that was the latest last week, whatever it was made Windows BSOD and I had to revert to a much older driver. I have an X700 Pro. Hopefully these will work and I update this driver.

swebarb · Aug 19, 2006

ah nice optimizations for all thoose games i currently play.

chevro1et · Aug 19, 2006

deathman20 said:
Oooh new drivers We like new drivers hehe

I'll give it a shot either tomorrow or late tonight if I'm sober enough

BTW The downclocking issue it happens when movies are played. The issue resides with ATITool as there must be some sort of bug with 6.4 and up that was causing the issue of it downclocking and staying that way. BTW Its not a service issue as if services are disabled it takes effect either way its a driver conflict with the software.

Right... driver conflict with software, meaning no prob if you do not use ATiTool. That is what I was trying to get at....

Additionally, 6.8 chuck patch here

Got 'em installed myself, BF2 seems as nice and buttery as ever...

JakeKlem · Aug 19, 2006

i love driver updates

SeanBest · Aug 19, 2006

w00t, I'll try it later on.

Jod · Aug 19, 2006

Been out of the loop for a bit...forgive me if this has been asked, asked, stickied, and pmed to every last soul, but...

The normal/regular/old control panel's back, right?

Rattle · Aug 19, 2006

so does anyone else sense the CCC opening and reacting faster ?

chevro1et · Aug 19, 2006

Rattle said:
so does anyone else sense the CCC opening and reacting faster ?

yea, for sure, Rattle... kinda freaky, isn't it?

Dan0512 · Aug 19, 2006

DLing the x64 version right now. Hopefully this will give me better Oblivion/Quake 4/GRAW fps.

dan

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