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P.S. Any chance [H] will start doing gaming notebook reviews?
I am happy that AMD is improving the crossfire experience. It seemed like SLI scaled so much better in comparison when it was a driver/profile issue. Now the question is should i buy a PC with (2)5770 Crossfire or a single 5850? They cost about the same but is the crossfired 5770 cards faster?
I've given up lately on ATI with their monthly releases, only to have a hotfix the following week. For the hell of it, I will entertain this new CAP 10.8a and see if anything improves.
I lucked out finding and using TwL's 3.90a driver he worked on cleaning up ATI's mess. He didn't have good words for the new 10.8 drivers either, fix something then break another.
I've been running QuadfireX Eyefinity the past week with BC2 and its been awesome. Now if it would stop crashing to desktop using eyefinity (no issues with single monitor) which seems to be a EA/DICE issue.
not really any different from nvidia.. release a drive next week theres a beta release.. just ATI publicizes them more then nvidia does.. you actually have to look for the beta driver which is usually to fix something they broke in the WHQL drivers..
while i agree it is annoying its actually kinda nice having the hotfixes instead of waiting an entire month for them to fix a simple bug that was in the drivers they released like we had to prior to the 5k series being released..
And Kyle is correct, I am watching this thread.
Thanks for this update. Has anybody seen any difference with Star Craft 2 using Crossfire?
Now that's what I'm talking about. So now 2x 5850 or 5870 will fare better against 2x gtx 460 in these applications. Things are back in balance thanks to the extensive work of Hard OCP & finally ATI.
I doubt very seriously that the HD 5850 crossfire will beat GTX 460 SLI in this two games still.
this is the reason i prefer single gpu cards. a dual gpu card would be ok...but crossfire and slip depend too much for my tastes on driver updates
In short, 10.5a works brilliantly for me with Crossfire and BC2. Every other driver, including 10.8 is horribly, and spectacularly broken.
I'm simply at a loss as to how to move the issue forward now, especially if ATI regard the issue as fixed.
I love how they say it took some time to replicate the error. How about just sticking in a game and playing it? Or reading your own damn forums.
Or how they blamed it on that particular map used for the test, lol.
Look at how they have kept the 5xxx prices so high even though they were getting trounced in performance.
Very impressive. I didn't know you guys actually tested through a whole segment. I thought you did 30-60 second runs like most others.
Yes, but it's worst.
With future Catalyst your CF system can break again without AMD will care or fix it because the focus it's on last generation card. If i update drivers, the minimum it's that catalyst don't goes worst or disable my 2nd card... and fix showstopper bugs with future games.
I'm very unhappy because I love AMD since my first cpu AMD K6-2, and it's the only brand that have a good policy (vs Intel or nVidia bad guys).
I like to spend my money on items that have a good reliability.
I'd like to get reassurance on that from CatalystMaker, but maybe I'm dreaming.
Nothing was apparently broken, they just added 'new functionality', so there must be nothing to fix. Yeah, I got that reply and I can't tell if it was just some twitter sarcasm, or if that's the actual thought process going on over at team red's driver HQ.
I think most that have been putting up with this are frankly tired of waiting through driver revisions (that contain some worthwhile updates for other things) for a fix. I know it, along with the 460's being a great release, have turned my builds off of the 5xxx series, and that's not really a great vibe to be pushing when there is a Q4 6xxx series on the horizon.
lol wut? When was that? Only the 460, which is still fairly new, offers *anything* competive in price/performance, other than that ATI has dominated single card value this entire generation across the board.
I was waiting for someone to say this. However, the 470' have started to creep down in price substantially, and the 5870 is only like 10-12% better, yet cooler and probably calmer.
LOL. Yeah, you guys made that pretty evident, I was more baffled by some of the user comments. I will say, Nvidia has lowered their prices by a ridiculous amount in the past month. I guess the oncoming 6xxx series has them concerned.......
In your opinion, Kyle, are these substantial price drops a bad sign?
I was waiting for someone to say this. However, the 470' have started to creep down in price substantially, and the 5870 is only like 10-12% better, yet cooler and probably calmer.