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official AMD/ATi Catalyst 8.9 Drivers thread

geok1ng said:
It is IMPOSSIBLE that EVERY SINGLE owner reports flickers with this card and NOT A SINGLE preview/review talked about it: OMFG it is a near constant issue: load a video-flicker, start ANY game- flicker, video on a webpage-flicker-not to mention the random flickers...
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You're right, it is impossible. Every single owner is clearly not having flicker issues - just a handful. That is the way it always works. The people with problems (who are almost always a small minority) are the most vocal about it, which makes the problem appear far more widespread than it really is.

Over 2 months now for these 4800 series cards and still Nvidia style early 2007 vista quality drivers for them. I've seen some shit in my day but never like this. Half the features in 8.9 either don't work or cause major system failure. Even nvidia can't top that one.
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I started with the 8.7s on my 4850 - zero problems. Tried the 8.8s - again, zero problems. My friends 9600GT, on the other hand, refuses to work. Artifacts, glitches, BSODs, the works. The card works fine in a different machine, and a different card works fine in his - the combo of the card + his system = chaos. Moral of the story being that the problems you are experiencing might not be the card or ATIs fault, necessarily, but some weird combination of hardware and drivers you specifically have - and nvidia has issues with the same thing.
 
Quick question. I just got a 4870 and haven't had an ati card in years. Should I have catalyst AI disabled?
 
Orangey said:
I think they'll be ultra-paranoid next time. They can kiss their console business goodbye if "RRoD 2" happens. At least, they can give up hope of dominating the living room and household as an all-in-one media box. You need Apple or Nintendo cred for that to work.
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Ironically, ATi has supplied Nintendo with their GPUs since the N64. Not sure why RRoD is somehow ATi's fault. Pretty clear now that it had everything to do with Microsoft.

Now can we get back on topic of the 8.9 Catalyst drivers?
 
OK, what I dont understand is how the 8.8 beta's have a driver version of 8.54 but the new official 8.9's are driver version 8.53?


Anyway, I upgraded, which was a mistake. I get slightly better performance in Crysis, but in COD4 and the Witcher (the 2 games I am playing right now) my FPS sucks, and bogs, and dips, etc. For example

8.9 Officials (8.53 driver version)
The Witcher 1920x1080 2x aa 16x af all settings max.
in city it dropped into the mid to low 20's, and averaged arround 35-40.

8.8 Beta's (8.54 driver version)
The Witcher 1920x1080 4x aa 16x af all settings max.
in city it never dropped below 30, and averaged arround 60-70.

That is proof enough for me. Upped the AA and still get better FPS.

also in COD4 my minimums almost doubled between the 2 driver versions. Ill dip into the 30's w/ the official 8.9's, but am 60+ minimum FPS all the time w/ the beta 8.8's.

I say stay away from the official 8.9's, cause they are garbage!
 
Xenozx said:
OK, what I dont understand is how the 8.8 beta's have a driver version of 8.54 but the new official 8.9's are driver version 8.53?


Anyway, I upgraded, which was a mistake. I get slightly better performance in Crysis, but in COD4 and the Witcher (the 2 games I am playing right now) my FPS sucks, and bogs, and dips, etc. For example

8.9 Officials (8.53 driver version)
The Witcher 1920x1080 2x aa 16x af all settings max.
in city it dropped into the mid to low 20's, and averaged arround 35-40.

8.8 Beta's (8.54 driver version)
The Witcher 1920x1080 4x aa 16x af all settings max.
in city it never dropped below 30, and averaged arround 60-70.

That is proof enough for me. Upped the AA and still get better FPS.

also in COD4 my minimums almost doubled between the 2 driver versions. Ill dip into the 30's w/ the official 8.9's, but am 60+ minimum FPS all the time w/ the beta 8.8's.

I say stay away from the official 8.9's, cause they are garbage!
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There were two 8.9 beta drivers. One with a driver version of 8.53 and one with a driver version of 8.54. The 8.54's actually hit the internet first. The 8.53's hit about two weeks ago while the 8.54's have been around for quite some time. I found that the 8.53's offered lower performance they worked correctly where the 8.54's didn't always. The CoD4 profiles were fixed in the 8.53 drivers though the performance wasn't where it needed to be. At least that was my experience.
 
Xenozx said:
8.9 Officials (8.53 driver version)
The Witcher 1920x1080 2x aa 16x af all settings max.
in city it dropped into the mid to low 20's, and averaged arround 35-40.

8.8 Beta's (8.54 driver version)
The Witcher 1920x1080 4x aa 16x af all settings max.
in city it never dropped below 30, and averaged arround 60-70.
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were you using 2x AA vs 4x Edge detect AA?

cuz edge detects is free, but doesn't work on 2x AA which is a resource hog.


Also 8.8 and 8.9 wre identical for me, few more points in vantage, nothing more

the same 2 bugs are still present, GPU 3 (primary GPU in my setup) starts at 750 mhz and stays until you launch and close a 3d app to get power play working.

and the white backgrounds on my pcie 650 ati tuner makes a nasty squeal, this has been an issues with the 7.7 drivers ( yes un addressed for over a year lol)
 
CanadaOwnsJoo said:
were you using 2x AA vs 4x Edge detect AA?

cuz edge detects is free, but doesn't work on 2x AA which is a resource hog.


Also 8.8 and 8.9 wre identical for me, few more points in vantage, nothing more

the same 2 bugs are still present, GPU 3 (primary GPU in my setup) starts at 750 mhz and stays until you launch and close a 3d app to get power play working.

and the white backgrounds on my pcie 650 ati tuner makes a nasty squeal, this has been an issues with the 7.7 drivers ( yes un addressed for over a year lol)
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Edge detect doesnt work in the witcher. I tried. Also regular 8x doesnt work either. You can force 2x and 4x but anything higher or edge detect, and AA is not on. So this was 2x aa no edge detect vs 4x aa no edge detect.
 
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