ATI doesn't support AGP anymore?

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zsec

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I haven't been able to use newer drivers since 7.8...

Why don't they stop manufacturing HD 2x00 in AGP, and recall all the X1x00 cards...

I'm going to miss out on 70% performance increase in Quake Wars because of this..
 
Because there's no longer a large enough market of die hard AGP users that like to pair state of the art GPUs with old CPUs?

EDIT: Are you asking about drivers? Because they should work on any card back through Radeon 7000. Tehy haven't stopped support. Besides, what's this 70% performance boost you're talking about?
 
Why do they manufacture HD 2x00's in AGP then? Nvidia has no 8x00 in AGP. Why did ATI even bother if they didn't want to support them.

I know I'm due for an upgrade, and it was a good thing this happened because it will definitely will not involve ATI.
 
zsec said:
I haven't been able to use newer drivers since 7.8...

Why don't they stop manufacturing HD 2x00 in AGP, and recall all the X1x00 cards...

I'm going to miss out on 70% performance increase in Quake Wars because of this..
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What makes you say that? They just finalized the adaptive aliasing for X1x00 cards in 7.10.

" https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/gamesite/Catalyst_710_release_notes.html

Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon™ X1000 Series of products
This release of Catalyst™ introduces Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon™ X1000 Series of products. Adaptive Anti-Aliasing substantially improves image quality by anti-aliasing transparent textures.
 
Maybe I should have bought an 1900 then, because HD2x00 in AGP ain't happening.
 
zsec said:
7.9 and 7.10 support any PCI-E card, not AGP.
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The drivers have NOTHING to do with the interface... they'll install on PCIe, AGP, hell even Vulcan Bridge Ring if you want it to, as long as that's what the chip is using to communicate with the northbridge.
 
The OP is stating that AGP ATI cards are not benefitting from the latest Catalyst drivers. You guys are telling him he's misinformed - he links the ATI forums to show you guys that you're mistaken. Browse those forums. Many AGP card users are suffering from various problems when they attempt to use the latest catalyst drivers.
 
djBon2112 said:
The drivers have NOTHING to do with the interface
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Yep... and I too fail to understand the problem the OP is having..... as I said earlier, I have 7.9's working just fine on more than one AGP card......

I think perhaps the problem may be "user error"......
 
Let's also not forget that they may not have included the highest quality textures to keep the demo from being huge.
 
Okay... how frequently do we see driver updates... what.. once a month??

There is no fucking way that ATI put out a BRAND NEW BOARD that they have no intention of supporting..... maybe your not getting the exact performance you want right now.. but seriously.. when you jump on something this new (DX10.. in AGP flavor) do you really expect it to work flawlessly.. because if you do, perhaps you should search back a while and read through some of the threads that were posted in the nivida forum right after the 8800 shipped...


Give it a little time and I think you'll see that driver support for you card will solidify a bit....




And no, I didn't dig through every thread in the link provided seeking a link to something official stating that ATI is not going to support AGP any longer.... so if there is one there, maybe link directly to it.. might add a little credibility to all of this....
 
It appears that the drivers are failing to allow the game to create a D3D surface. Basically it doesn't work period. It's not a performance issue. It's a spotty issue though and doesn't affect all AGP cards. It's a bug, not ATI purposefully not supporting a certain interface.
 
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