Cat 8.5 has been released!

imperialreign · May 22, 2008

lemonadesoda said:
It installed fine on my 3850AGP. Ok here is the trick:

1./ DONT uninstal the old driver
2./ Just install the *drivers* not CCC on top of existing
3./ Reboot, then turn up hardware acceleration

Done

RESULTS SO FAR:

1./ Lightsmark 2007, up +12%
2./ Open Furmark, 3337 to 3344 (nothing much)
3./ Aquamark, no change
4./ 3Dmark06, no change worth mentioning. Stock 10,299. Overclock 11,663 *

* I hate doing the 3Dmark benchmarks. They take SO LONG to do. Wish they would do something a little bit more zippy.

agreed.

and to 3m06 performance, I saw a 400 point drop between CAT 8.2 and CAT 8.5

Fitseries3 · May 22, 2008

t_ski said:
I've been busy swapping out the motherboard I just bought from you

But I do have them installed and running. Hopefully I'll do some benches later tonight.

let me know... im in trasition into the ddr3 rig and wont know until monday at the soonest.

off topic....

i just got a new VT 3870 and it came with a zerotherm cooler on it! NICE!

EastCoasthandle · May 22, 2008

Anyone looking for an alternate benchmarking program I suggest using Unigine's Sanctuary Demo. It has options for DX and Opengl benchmarks.

ThatGuy16 · May 22, 2008

i think my 3dmark score went up about 100 points. But, it was suppose to FIX the DiRT issues, and now the game won't even work :laugh:

AsRock · May 22, 2008

EastCoasthandle said:
Anyone looking for an alternate benchmarking program I suggest using Unigine's Sanctuary Demo. It has options for DX and Opengl benchmarks.

I''ll try that got 8.4's installed at the moment so i'll do a few runs with that 1st. Any other program ?.

AsRock · May 22, 2008

DaMulta said:
Anyone with a 2900XT to test openGL?

BTW i do not install CCC.

8.4 drivers

8.5 (8.493.0.0)

philbrown23 · May 22, 2008

well the driver is actually 8.493 so it's the vantage hotfix driver with a new catalyst thats all.

CrackerJack · May 22, 2008

philbrown23 said:
well the driver is actually 8.493 so it's the vantage hotfix driver with a new catalyst thats all.

huh?

ThatGuy16 · May 22, 2008

I thought my score on 3Dmark went up, i guess not. Before at the same settings i got 20,008. Now with the same settings, i got 19,946. Not a big difference.. but it pulled me away from 20k :laugh:

I might revert back to 8.4's, i almost think they done more damage than good for me. It was suppose to fix my DiRT issues, but now the damned game won't even play :roll:

WildCat87 · May 22, 2008

I had to go back to 8.4 because 8.5 wouldn't display correctly on my HDMI 22" computer monitor.

Whilhelm · May 22, 2008

Watch the Overscan underscan setting. My tv wasn't displaying correctly because it defaulted to 7% underscan. Set it to zero to get it back to normal. other than that so far I like 8.5

t_ski · May 22, 2008

philbrown23 said:
well the driver is actually 8.493 so it's the vantage hotfix driver with a new catalyst thats all.

These are not the vantage hotfix drivers. The corruption that was present with the 8.4's (which was fixed with the hotfix) is once again present in 3DMVantage.

Fitseries3 · May 22, 2008

t_ski said:
These are not the vantage hotfix drivers. The corruption that was present with the 8.4's (which was fixed with the hotfix) is once again present in 3DMVantage.

well shit. how about everything else? you get to benching those x2's yet? LOL!

let me know if you need help with the maximus.

t_ski · May 22, 2008

I got the stock CPU run in, then tried to go straight to 3.6GHz and run again then got a Red screen of death lol

From the way it was looking, I have a hard time believing it would have been better.

Gonna send you a PM here in a minute on the board

DaMulta · May 22, 2008

AsRock said:
BTW i do not install CCC.

Thank you for testing that.

BTW, you should install CCC because the AI is where the fixes are for games. Without this turned on you don't get the hot fixes.

Adaptive AA on OpenGL for Catalyst Control Center is what I would really like to see tested.

techie81 · May 22, 2008

WildCat87 said:
I had to go back to 8.4 because 8.5 wouldn't display correctly on my HDMI 22" computer monitor.

Me too, although on a 24".

imperialreign · May 22, 2008

DaMulta said:
Thank you for testing that.

BTW, you should install CCC because the AI is where the fixes are for games. Without this turned on you don't get the hot fixes.

Adaptive AA on OpenGL for Catalyst Control Center is what I would really like to see tested.

agreed - also, Crossfire users need CAT AI to even run crossfire.

What I've found works best, is to install CCC with the new driver, and run ATI Tray Tools instead. After reboot of a new CAT install, you'll have to disable CCC start in msconfig, and restart ATT, but the new information will be there, and you won't have a need to have CCC load up at boot or even run at all - ATT will handle the rest.

And, BTW for crossfire users, the most recent beta of ATT correctly enables crossfire - so there's no need for us to even have CCC running.

Jadarok · May 22, 2008

I just got myself a HD 3850 for my aging system. I've been having trouble finding good drivers. How soon do they usually release the hotfix for new Catalyst drivers because the new 8.5 doesn't recognize my HD 3850

CrackerJack · May 22, 2008

Jadarok said:
I just got myself a HD 3850 for my aging system. I've been having trouble finding good drivers. How soon do they usually release the hotfix for new Catalyst drivers because the new 8.5 doesn't recognize my HD 3850

AGP or PCI-E?

philbrown23:
8.4 Hotfix- 8.471
8.5- 8.493

The suppose leak drivers well back where fake, They were the same drivers as the 8.4.

eidairaman1 · May 22, 2008

imperialreign said:
agreed - also, Crossfire users need CAT AI to even run crossfire.

What I've found works best, is to install CCC with the new driver, and run ATI Tray Tools instead. After reboot of a new CAT install, you'll have to disable CCC start in msconfig, and restart ATT, but the new information will be there, and you won't have a need to have CCC load up at boot or even run at all - ATT will handle the rest.

And, BTW for crossfire users, the most recent beta of ATT correctly enables crossfire - so there's no need for us to even have CCC running.

CATAI is primarily an attempt for the drivers to fix some flaws in the code, which sometimes creates a detriment to performance or in other cases doesnt work period, Example, UT2004 takes a major hit with it on with a R300 Graphics card, so leave it off, Now i believe with ATI Tray Tools or ATI Tool you can create Custom Profiles for games so you can have AI on and off.

eidairaman1 · May 22, 2008

probably forgot to install chipset drivers.

Jadarok · May 22, 2008

It's an AGP.

AMD Athlon 3200+
2GB RAM
Windows XP

With that system and Mobo I got, there wasn't much else for me to do besides get that video card. I wanted to upgrade to prepare for Age of Conan without buying a whole new rig. When I tired to install the drivers for the thing, the CD I go with my card appeard to be blank :twitch:

doesn't read the thing. So I found 8.4 hotfix drivers from Saphire's website, but I'm not impressed. I don't seem to be getting much of a performance boost from my Nvidia 7800GS. Sometimes it's a slight boost, other times it seems to be less. I don't have any benchmarking tools so I don't have any exact figures. Any other dirvers I've tried besides that one 8.4 hotfix from the website won't recognize my card. You guys have any advice as far as drivers and/or boosting performance?

CrackerJack · May 22, 2008

Jadarok said:
It's an AGP.

AMD Athlon 3200+
2GB RAM
Windows XP

With that system and Mobo I got, there wasn't much else for me to do besides get that video card. I wanted to upgrade to prepare for Age of Conan without buying a whole new rig. When I tired to install the drivers for the thing, the CD I go with my card appeard to be blank doesn't read the thing. So I found 8.4 hotfix drivers from Saphire's website, but I'm not impressed. I don't seem to be getting much of a performance boost from my Nvidia 7800GS. Sometimes it's a slight boost, other times it seems to be less. I don't have any benchmarking tools so I don't have any exact figures. Any other dirvers I've tried besides that one 8.4 hotfix from the website won't recognize my card. You guys have any advice as far as drivers and/or boosting performance?

try 8.4 non hotfix, most AGP user's are using the 8.4 hotfix. but if you have no luck then go back a step.

jcdenton21 · May 22, 2008

any chance that I will gain anything with 8.5 in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
I have ASUS 3650 256MB and Catalyst 8.3

AsRock · May 22, 2008

DaMulta said:
Thank you for testing that.

BTW, you should install CCC because the AI is where the fixes are for games. Without this turned on you don't get the hot fixes.

Adaptive AA on OpenGL for Catalyst Control Center is what I would really like to see tested.

Well i don't use AI due to my main game being Armed Assault. As it is recommended being turned off. Maybe when Arma 2 comes out but it's a no no for Arma.

See arma still uses a very old game engine that don't do to well with AI.

Thanks all the same.

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