Originally posted by: 450R
Doesn't look like much changed. CCC got some language fixes and PowerDVD behavior was fixed twice; once for choppy playback and again for jittery playback.
On a side note, does anyone know which drivers a 9700 Pro would like best? I recently reformatted and BF2 performance went to crap with 6.11 (I don't remember which drivers I had before). I even dropped everything to Low (was previously on Medium) and I'm still only getting about 20FPS.
Generally speaking, with ATI drivers you usually want to use the latest ones even for somewhat older hardware. Because of the monthly releases, bugs like that tend to get resolved quickly. Of course, occasionally you get situations where some application runs really badly on certain boards with a particular driver version. I haven't heard of any problems like that with the 6.11 drivers, but I also haven't been looking for them.
If you did a clean install, you might want to make sure that you didn't revert all your settings for things like AA/AF, texture detail, etc. in the drivers. Also make sure that you've got the lastest version of DirectX installed. I've also heard of problems in the past related to driver installation order -- normally you want to (if possible) install your motherboard drivers, then DirectX, then the video card drivers.
You might want to try some benchmarks that give known numbers (like 3DMark06) and see if you're in the right ballpark. If everything is running slowly, it's likely a configuration problem.