Cat 4.6 is great!

Lazier_Said said:
Two random hard locks at the windows desktop within 4 hours. Back to 4.5 for me.
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I think that's KOTOR. Not ATi's issue. KOTOR has a huge list of bugs and problems.
 
I think that's KOTOR. Not ATi's issue. KOTOR has a huge list of bugs and problems.
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I don't have KOTOR. It locked at the Windows desktop, not running any application in particular.

I haven't read of anyone experiencing similar problems with 4.6, so it's either a niche incompatibility with some aspect of my system, or else the install went wrong in some way. I'm not concerned enough to spend the time tracking it down.
 
BF:V seems to perform better for me too. Not to mention they fixed that annoying AA bug.
 
orkan said:
BF:V seems to perform better for me too. Not to mention they fixed that annoying AA bug.
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awesome... BF:V runs pretty good but will just slow down for no apparent reason sometimes.. (no disk access; so it's not caching) ... can't wait for omega to release his new drivers...
 
I did notice a really nice improvement all around I am impressed I think this is the best drivers yet NFS underground is faster I play that game way too much Even my 2 year old daughter plays it with me :cool:
 
doh-nut said:
thief3 is still screwed up in the 4.6 just like 4.5. lights and shadows go wacky, and when you walk some walls will just light up. its really lame.
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Screenshots of this problem?

I think what you are describing is a game feature which lights up things that you can interact with in the game, it should light up a blue color.
 
Brent_Justice said:
Screenshots of this problem?

I think what you are describing is a game feature which lights up things that you can interact with in the game, it should light up a blue color.
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well, i know its not the lighting up blue thing, since im pretty well versed in the game to know the difference :cool:

i would have to make an AVI to show you. which i might do sometime

but ill be walking along and there will be a streetlight, which casts a bunch of light on the ground, and then there will be a seam in the ground where the transition will be very bad on about half of it, and it will flicker if you look at it. and then sometimes you will see light sheets appear on walls as if there was some hidden light. its mostly periphreal stuff.

and when i go back to 4.4, the problem disappears. its not a HUGE visual problem, but i can notice it. it just doesn't look natural or meant to be

edit: ill try and get a screenshot
 
meaty said:
awesome... BF:V runs pretty good but will just slow down for no apparent reason sometimes.. (no disk access; so it's not caching) ... can't wait for omega to release his new drivers...
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i think thats a game problem
 
doh-nut said:
well, i know its not the lighting up blue thing, since im pretty well versed in the game to know the difference :cool:

i would have to make an AVI to show you. which i might do sometime

but ill be walking along and there will be a streetlight, which casts a bunch of light on the ground, and then there will be a seam in the ground where the transition will be very bad on about half of it, and it will flicker if you look at it. and then sometimes you will see light sheets appear on walls as if there was some hidden light. its mostly periphreal stuff.

and when i go back to 4.4, the problem disappears. its not a HUGE visual problem, but i can notice it. it just doesn't look natural or meant to be

edit: ill try and get a screenshot
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ah, thanks for the info, i haven't played Thief 3 myself yet

i wonder if the problem excists in the demo, i'll have to try it
 
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so im facing the direction, when i turn my mouse to look right, it goes unlit. its either dark or light. so at one inch i could go back and forth and it would flash
 
Love these new 4.6s! Makes every game I have tried (NFS: Underground, FarCry, Unreal II, and BF1942) run better. Can't wait to try out the drivers on my new X800XT (on order from Best Buy)!!!
 
I'm liking these drivers as well. Thank god I'm not a benchmark junky because I lost in almost every synthetic benchmark. I was about to give up on these drivers and go back to the trusty 3.7's but then I benched Farcry and well. Have a look :D :D

Omega's 3.7s

1024x768
run# 0: Average FPS: 49.65
run# 1: Average FPS: 59.87

1280x1024
run# 0: Average FPS: 39.40
run# 1: Average FPS: 43.25

ATI's 4.6

1024x768
run# 0: Average FPS: 65.28
run# 1: Average FPS: 67.17

1280x1024
run# 0: Average FPS: 51.86
run# 1: Average FPS: 52.93
 
On my aging 9000Pro these are givien me a 33-50% speed increase in ut2k4 over 4.4s, didn't really paly during 4.5s but now the troopers mod is out...

Overall I'm very happy, and my overclock on this card is very stable still with these.

(275/275 stock, O/C = 310/283, very nice for a $60 card thats two and a half years old)
 
WOuld the 4.6s help a Radeon 8500LE? ... yes i know i need to upgrade.. just waiting till i get some cash...
 
Neocorteqz said:
How so?
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because it downloaded achingly slow. it was torment i tell ya.

anywho, installed, went and played me some NFS:U and said to myself "hey man, this game looks phenomenal at 1280x1024 with every in game setting maxxed." but after playing for a bit i noticed it would go into some slow parts and i said to myself "ah well... can't win em all..." thinking that the 4.6 had helped a bit but not perfect as i had hoped.















then when i got into the control panel i noticed "hey! i don't remember setting direct3d at 6xAA/16xAF!"... all is well in NFS:Uville my frends. far cry tomorrow! :)
 
HRslammR said:
because it downloaded achingly slow. it was torment i tell ya.

anywho, installed, went and played me some NFS:U and said to myself "hey man, this game looks phenomenal at 1280x1024 with every in game setting maxxed." but after playing for a bit i noticed it would go into some slow parts and i said to myself "ah well... can't win em all..." thinking that the 4.6 had helped a bit but not perfect as i had hoped.















then when i got into the control panel i noticed "hey! i don't remember setting direct3d at 6xAA/16xAF!"... all is well in NFS:Uville my frends. far cry tomorrow! :)
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If i wanted to kill my bandwidth in a day, i'd post a mirror. :D
 
HRslammR said:
because it downloaded achingly slow. it was torment i tell ya.

anywho, installed, went and played me some NFS:U and said to myself "hey man, this game looks phenomenal at 1280x1024 with every in game setting maxxed." but after playing for a bit i noticed it would go into some slow parts and i said to myself "ah well... can't win em all..." thinking that the 4.6 had helped a bit but not perfect as i had hoped.


then when i got into the control panel i noticed "hey! i don't remember setting direct3d at 6xAA/16xAF!"... all is well in NFS:Uville my frends. far cry tomorrow! :)
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And then you realize Anti aliasing doesn't work on NFS:U, then the game slows down trying to render something it cant display.
 
thats only if u enable motion blur or light trails..

otherwise aa works fine, and i prefer to play this game with mb and lt disabled, at 4xaa.
 
installed these lastnight and they seem fine, no probs on desktop yet, played a bit of far cry and that seems fine too...
 
Temporal AA works fine on my AIW Radeon 9700 pro < Just bought it to replace an aging 8500 BTW.

There are usually two settings in the registry... I just changed both under the heading "catalyst 4.6" and ignored the rest.

You have to change a D3D setting for it to take effect. 60hz is too low for most, I set it to 84hz (one below the default refresh rate for the resolutions I game at) and 2x Performance. Very occasionally at 1600x1200 it will render the temporal AA, on 1280x1024 games its more like half of the time.

Its completely free double precision AA, as long as the FPS stay high :cool:
 
BooyaAchieved said:
You are right. I can run Temporal AA on my 9600 Pro, and it is awesome too.
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When is ATI going to incorporate these settings into the Control Panel...
 
o, i have a 9600xt... The hard part is looking for the folder that has ur catylst varsion...
Just look in the folders for a string/thingie that has the name catlyst... then just find the name of the cat version (in this thread for ex, 4.6) and do wut they say... I reccomend deleting the older driver regestrys... And no, it will not mess up ur comp
 
Anyon ehave performance numbers between these and 4.4's? I refues to update because of the thief 3 issues unless there are.
 
Cali3350 said:
Anyon ehave performance numbers between these and 4.4's? I refues to update because of the thief 3 issues unless there are.
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what kind of numbers you looking for? if you want 3dmarks, lemme know.
 
3dmark is ok, any game would be great to. farCry would be excellent as its the only game in not iking performance for atm.
 
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