AMD Sneaks in ATI Catalyst 9.8 Driver Suite

support for the HD5000

 

i hope the fps in arma 2 go sky rocket high

 

isnt it HD 7000 series?

 

no i looked, no r8xx references. but i did see the new SKU's in there.

and from ive seen i think there may also be OpenGl improvements. Like using GPU caps viewer, its now reporting a geometry shader, and from i remember there wasnt one. I played Quake 4 and it didnt crash on me like it usually did, so they must have done something with the OGL driver.

 

Need more shaders and more CPU and you will get better performance in Arma 2..

Don't know about trying these lol.. Think i'll wait and stay on 9.6's as the 9.7's were crap when over clocking the GPU.

Seem good so far only tried GTA 4 and GPUTool and no issue's.

 

X1950 in Win7???

 

Support for the X1950 was dropped in 9.2 (or 9.3 can't remember). I don't know if it's 9.8 drivers or I did something without looking, but whenever I watch a movie in VLC it looks kinda odd, like it needs anti-aliasing or something

 

Goody, maybe this will work a bit better than my 9.7s, seeing as I have a lighting problem with those.

 

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/17418

 

OpenGL 3.1 seems to be fully supported now and we have GLSL 1.4, at least this is what the last Everest beta is reporting. Now hurry to OGL 3.2&GLSL 1.5 ATI! It's a long way from 10% so go go go!

 

Saw this somewhere else:

This month we are seeing a massive performance increase with a whole host of games as compared to the ATI Catalyst 9.7 driver. Detailed release notes are available for most of the game optimizations; here are the highlights:

•Battleforge DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 performance improves of up to 50% with the largest gains in configurations using ATI CrossFireX™ technology.
•Company of Heroes DirectX 10 performance improves of up to 77%.

•Crysis DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 10% and quad mode performance improves of up to 34%.

•Crysis Warhead DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 7% and quad mode performance improves of up to 69%.
•Far Cry 2 DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 50% and quad mode performance improves of up to 88%.

•Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 40% and with quad mode performance improving of up to 60%.

•UnigineTropics OpenGL performance improvements of up to 20%.

•UnigineTropics DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in quad mode improvements of up to 20%.

•World in Conflict DirectX 10 performance improvements of up to by 10%.

This release of the ATI Catalyst driver provides OpenGL 3.1 extension support. The following is a list of OpenGL 3.1 features and extensions added in ATI Catalyst 9.8:


•Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.30 and 1.40.

•Instanced rendering with a per-instance counter accessible to vertex shaders (GL ARB draw instanced).
•Data copying between buffer objects (GL EXT copy buffer).

•Primitive restart (NV primitive restart). Because client enable/disable no longer exists in OpenGL 3.1, the PRIMITIVE RESTART state has become server state, unlike the Nvidia extension where it is client state. As a result, the numeric values assigned to PRIMITIVE RESTART and PRIMITIVE RESTART INDEX differ from the NV versions of those tokens. o At least 16 texture image units must be accessible to vertex shaders, in addition to the 16 already guaranteed to be accessible to fragment shaders.

•Texture buffer objects (GL ARB texture buffer object).

• Rectangular textures (GL ARB texture rectangle). o Uniform buffer objects (GL ARB uniform buffer object).

•SNORM texture component formats.

 

These were alot better than either the 9.6 or 9.7s for me!
good stuff

 

hit that up around 7pm..these work nice for me

 

i wish nvidia would come out with some new drivers that are worth a d*mn... so far their performance has been decreasing and getting more bloated.

 

rumor had it (or maybe not rumor just me going crazy) that ATI hired a completely new driver team two driver cycles ago, since then things have been getting better and better so I am inclined to think that its true

 

Not to rain on their parade, but if you can create drivers with 40 to 50% gains on some of the leading games, on products that have been mostly out for over a year. Well then people do deserve to get fired, because how insanely crappy where the drivers before that.

I think drivers should at least be 80 to 90% of what they can be after 6 month tops.

Only a complete haulover of their driver team could explaine it I think..

 

I believe the 50% claim is a far cry from the reality.
Here is 9.7 with 4890/4850 1GB Crossfire setup:

And here is 9.8 with the same 4890/4850 1GB Crossfire setup:


EDIT: It appears the people without Core i7s are seeing the greatest improvement, ie: the min framerate increases. I think this driver release is supposed to improve CPU scaling.
EDIT EDIT: Nevermind, driver release is aimed at pure Crossfire setups or to CPU scaling perhaps?

 

I honestly don't believe when they made that claim they were specifically targeting mixed CF setups. But talking about traditional CF setups. Besides, you are only showing the 1st run not the average of all 3 runs

 

Those are quite huge gains! I just dropped these drivers in and I'm getting like 8+ FPS in Clear Sky on my HD 4770.

 

I usually just Far Cry 2 to run once, just as a quick stability test and clock reference, so there is no average to show.

 

those 50% gain claim is for a complete: amd platform(phenomII+790gx[fx]) and non-mixed crossfirex setups

 

Yeah I suppose. I guess I'll have to wait for next month's release to fix mixed Crossfire. Hopefully.