6.2 Cat's leaked

[Zstream]

6.2 Cat's download, dont blame me for slow d/l


Here ya go 1900 series support for you bastards

 

[TecHNooB]

kakakakaka

 

[aggressor]

Woo, downloading now. Kind of silly since the final will probably be out this week, but I gotta get off of the 5.13s

 

[5150Joker]

Just finished uploading them to my ftp. Get them while they're up for a few hours: Click here

 

[Zstream]

Originally posted by: 5150Joker
Just finished uploading them to my ftp. Get them while they're up for a few hours: Click here

fixed your link jokers d/l

 

[superjohnyo]

mirror

 

[aggressor]

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/677/untitled0gl.png

Screenshot of the driver version

 

[John Reynolds]

IMO, since ATI isn't letting end users experiment with Crossfire's rendering modes and create custom profiles they need to list which games have been profiled and added to their driver suite for each monthly release.

 

[5150Joker]

Got a slightly higher 3dmark05 score with these but nothing to write home about: 12666

 

[Painman]

Originally posted by: superjohnyo
mirror

Thanks for that, puling it down @ 290K/sec. That's about full throttle for my 3 Mbit DSL :thumbsup:

 

[DoobieOnline]

Thanks for the heads-up, and thanks for hosting the file guys!

Edit: BF2 SF night vision is fixed - no more blooming and vertical light bars. The shadows on rifles still dance around on day maps and still get the odd looking textures on certain things (like the "bands" on the east side of the tank at the southern MEC base on Clean Sweep).

Definitely an improvement over the drivers that shipped with the X1900's, though.

 

[Steelski]

Originally posted by: 5150Joker
Got a slightly higher 3dmark05 score with these but nothing to write home about: 12666

do you overclock? i guess you do.

 

[Frostwake]

maybe someone should actually post some game scores? all i see is cpu limited 3dmarks... also 06 3dmark should go up by 400~

 

[apoppin]

i had to clean up after my last Cat leak

and i got a bad d/l this time . . . i'll wait for the final.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: John Reynolds
IMO, since ATI isn't letting end users experiment with Crossfire's rendering modes and create custom profiles they need to list which games have been profiled and added to their driver suite for each monthly release.

That can't do that because unlike the competition, ATI's dual card set up doesn't need special programming on a per game basis, it works with all games right out of the box.

 

[rgardner]

Big thanks!

Now the cool part is after installing, it thinks my Sapphire X1900 XT is now a ATI X1900 XTX ... gotta love that! I assume the real release will set me back down to the XT level.

3DMark05 of 11163

 

[Matt2]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: John Reynolds
IMO, since ATI isn't letting end users experiment with Crossfire's rendering modes and create custom profiles they need to list which games have been profiled and added to their driver suite for each monthly release.

That can't do that because unlike the competition, ATI's dual card set up doesn't need special programming on a per game basis, it works with all games right out of the box.

True, but unlike the competition, you are stuck with whatever rendering mode Crossfire gives you.

AFR is the best performing, but many games are limited to scissor and supertiling rendering. Scissor mode and supertiling modes take up to a 30% performance hit compared to AFR.

I still like the flexibility of SLI, plus with nHancer, you can force SLI in games that are not supported through the official profiles.

 

[John Reynolds]

No, guys, the default alternate rendering mode for DirectX games is SuperTile (at least for the 16 pipe boards), which is not 100% compatible with all games. And with the end user being unable to create custom profiles ATI has to test each DX application and create a profile for it to use AFR or Scissor if it doesn't work with SuperTiling.

For example, MS Flight Simulator 2004 hasn't been profiled yet and actually has a slight performance hit with Crossfire, so it obviously isn't benefitting from SuperTiling. IMO, ATI really needs to change their stance on allowing end users to experiment with these alternating rendering modes and creating custom profiles.

Edit: the above pertains to performance gains. ATI's 100% compatibility claim is derived from their SuperAA modes.

 

[Painman]

Hmm... Drivers were working great for about 1/2 hour or 45 minutes of Q4, then crazy artifacting started showing up all over the place. Reverted to the CD drivers, same thing after about 1/2 hour... so the drivers are OK, but it looks like I have a bad 1900 Back to Newegg it goes... Good thing I haven't sold my X850 yet.

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: Painman
Hmm... Drivers were working great for about 1/2 hour or 45 minutes of Q4, then crazy artifacting started showing up all over the place. Reverted to the CD drivers, same thing after about 1/2 hour... so the drivers are OK, but it looks like I have a bad 1900 Back to Newegg it goes... Good thing I haven't sold my X850 yet.

my x850 keeps on kicking after all this time good to hear you have a back up.

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: apoppin
i had to clean up after my last Cat leak

and i got a bad d/l this time . . . i'll wait for the final.

Heh, great minds think alike. Zoinks, you're one post away from 20k.

 

[5150Joker]

Originally posted by: Steelski

Originally posted by: 5150Joker
Got a slightly higher 3dmark05 score with these but nothing to write home about: 12666

do you overclock? i guess you do.

Yes you guessed right.

 

[Ronin]

The difference between what you see above and what's in the Dev drivers:

http://server.counter-strike.net/images/misc/aticcc.png

 

[Zbox]

sigh, omega drivers had fixed my buzzing issue then i switch to these 6.2 betas for the worst buzzing from the card yet... yay!

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: Matt2

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: John Reynolds
IMO, since ATI isn't letting end users experiment with Crossfire's rendering modes and create custom profiles they need to list which games have been profiled and added to their driver suite for each monthly release.

That can't do that because unlike the competition, ATI's dual card set up doesn't need special programming on a per game basis, it works with all games right out of the box.

True, but unlike the competition, you are stuck with whatever rendering mode Crossfire gives you.

AFR is the best performing, but many games are limited to scissor and supertiling rendering. Scissor mode and supertiling modes take up to a 30% performance hit compared to AFR.

I still like the flexibility of SLI, plus with nHancer, you can force SLI in games that are not supported through the official profiles.

You can have SLI, I'll take something that works right out of the box.