Catalyst 9.1 drivers are here!

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
Sweet rig, aigo! That thing cost a pretty penny I'm sure.

ROFL gonna test mirror's edge.

a friend of mine sent me a free copy.

 

[imported_Asianman]

They should take their time...especially considering their performance in GTA IV.

 

[postmortemIA]

Here are 9/1 cats

 

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
Here are 9/1 cats

BAN!

 

[lavaheadache]

They are probably toying with us because of all the wankers who rallied behind the arcticle which said the monthly driver schedule was causing some shoddy work from the driver teams.

 

[dust]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
Here are 9/1 cats

Wow! They must have put their back into it!

 

[Bateluer]

They're definitely late this month, with less than 10 days before the end of the month.

 

[dguy6789]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh where are my drivers?!!! *bangs head against wall*

 

[nemesismk2]

I am still waiting ATI

 

[nerp]

I occasionally have the dreaded "driver stopped responding and was reset" or whatnot error when viewing full screen video on dual monitors. I'm just hoping that the new cats fix this.

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
I can tell you that these will be out by the 31st January 2009.

Really? That is good news

 

[dguy6789]

Late drivers are late!

This is probably what Rollo is doing when he sees that our drivers are late:

http://ati.amd.com/images/head...bilityhd4000series.jpg

 

[Bateluer]

Technically, ATI's drivers aren't late because they never state a release date. So long as they release them before 31 Jan 2009, 23:59:59, then they are not late.

 

[Modular]

Originally posted by: aigomorla





i bolded the Amps line on GPU-Z log.



9.5amps -> 70+amps is scary....

How do you get GPU-Z to show amperage draw? Is that a feature of the 4870 X2 and not the 4850?

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: Modular
How do you get GPU-Z to show amperage draw? Is that a feature of the 4870 X2 and not the 4850?

What version of GPU-Z are you using? I think roughly around release 0.2.7 is when that feature first started appearing.

 

[neothe0ne]

They're obviously late because they need a ton of work. 8.12 was a trainwreck on many levels.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: neothe0ne
They're obviously late because they need a ton of work. 8.12 was a trainwreck on many levels.

Xmas holidays too,anyway I think we can wait a few weeks or so, not like its a long wait between drivers .

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: neothe0ne
They're obviously late because they need a ton of work. 8.12 was a trainwreck on many levels.

I guess you had some problems

 

[Creig]

Originally posted by: neothe0ne
They're obviously late because they need a ton of work. 8.12 was a trainwreck on many levels.

It could possibly be due to AMD introducing multi-threading capability into their drivers.

DX10+Catalyst 9.1+quad = ?

Last November, we underlined the multi-threading optimisation of NVIDIA drivers in DirectX 10 in contrast to AMD drivers which didn?t have it. Contacted on this subject, AMD told us that they were working on drivers which would include this in the first quarter of 2009. AMD has been able to provide us with a beta version of the forthcoming Catalysts which will now be multithreaded in some DirectX 10 applications. They carry the numbering 8.561.3 and seem to be an optimisation that will be integrated as of Catalyst 9.1.

So as to see how they perform in practice, we carried out the tests in Crysis and World In Conflict again. In both cases, the tests were carried out at a res of 800*600 so as to limit the impact of the graphics card and concentrate on processor limitation, at high settings however so as to maximise processor load.

While there really doesn?t seem to be much change in World In Conflict and multithreading doesn't seem to offer much optimisation in this game, there are significant gains in Crysis: 9% better with dual-core and 22% with a quad! The gain on the dual-core was actually unexpected and the processor limitation on the 4870 was lower for this processor than the GTX 280, with equivalent scores on the quad. The ratio between the dual and quad is ?only? 16%, compared to 21% on NVIDIA.

Good news then for Radeon owners. It remains to be seen if AMD will extend this optimisation to all DX10 titles over the coming months.

http://www.behardware.com/html/news/cat4/page1.html

 

[Modular]

Originally posted by: neothe0ne
They're obviously late because they need a ton of work. 8.12 was a trainwreck on many levels.

I haven't had a single problem with Ati drivers since I picked up my 4850. I was using an nVidia card before that and had no problems with their drivers either.

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: Modular

Originally posted by: neothe0ne
They're obviously late because they need a ton of work. 8.12 was a trainwreck on many levels.

I haven't had a single problem with Ati drivers since I picked up my 4850. I was using an nVidia card before that and had no problems with their drivers either.

:thumbsup:

 

[lavaheadache]

Originally posted by: Modular

Originally posted by: neothe0ne
They're obviously late because they need a ton of work. 8.12 was a trainwreck on many levels.

I haven't had a single problem with Ati drivers since I picked up my 4850. I was using an nVidia card before that and had no problems with their drivers either.

I haven't had many problems either but if you want a problem fire up dx10 farcry 2. Instant problem and repeatable everytime.

 

[Modular]

Originally posted by: lavaheadache

Originally posted by: Modular

Originally posted by: neothe0ne
They're obviously late because they need a ton of work. 8.12 was a trainwreck on many levels.

I haven't had a single problem with Ati drivers since I picked up my 4850. I was using an nVidia card before that and had no problems with their drivers either.

I haven't had many problems either but if you want a problem fire up dx10 farcry 2. Instant problem and repeatable everytime.

Not on Vista yet (not sure I ever will be either). I wonder if that might be the problems that people talk about concerning drivers.

 

[lavaheadache]

only a couple days left now till they are late. I don't ever recall the catalysts coming out this late in the month

 

[vj8usa]

Originally posted by: lavaheadache
only a couple days left now till they are late. I don't ever recall the catalysts coming out this late in the month

Actually, they're here now.
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx