New Radeon 7062 drivers about to be leaked

[Fumiup]

New Radeon 7062 drivers about to be leaked.

 

[themadmonk]

Finally, new sh.t.

 

[SmackdownHotel]

Hope they're damn good. I've got no complaints as it is, but hey, improvement = good.

 

[SmackdownHotel]

Found this link on their forums:

new leaked drivers 7062

For Win9x/ME only apparently. I haven't tried them yet, need sleep first.

 

[tjll11a]

Anyone try them out yet???

 

[Taz4158]

Just about to.

 

[snow patrol]

Let us know!

 

[aUt0eXebat]

taz, let us know how they are.

 

[PinkFloyd]

Yeah Taz!

 

[BaTTo]

Hell... Im not gonna wait to see how good they are.. I'm going in!!

 

[demenion]

im trying them too... will post results.

 

[Taz4158]

They're good! Gained some speed here, not sure about other fixes because I didn't have any problems but early reports are they fix some issues for some people.

 

[demenion]

ok..

Quake 3 1.17, demo001, 1024x768 resolution, maxed settings, cg_drawgun 0

ATI Radeon OpenGl settings,

convert 32 bit textures to 16 bit - off
enable page flipping on
disable dithering when alpha blending - off
enable ktx buffer region extension - on
force 16 bit zbuffer - off
wait for vertical sync - off
enable texture compression - on

full scene anti-aliasing disabled
anisotropic texture filtering - highest quality

7041 - 85.6 FPS demo001
7062 - 91.3 FPS demo 001

Nice improvement. Trying other games now!

 

[demenion]

semms really good. btw, list of fixes at rage3d.com

Fixed Issues:
1. Giants runs properly with environment mapping on (cubic)
2. Diablo2 runs smoother
3. Quake3 runs smoother
4. Sacrifice runs without as many flashing textures, mana and health bars fixed
5. Better image quality in UT (explosions)
6. Better image quality in NHL 2001 (ice reflections)
7. Fixed memory leaks
8. TV Out : OK (you can directly boot on it)
9. TV Out settings like position/size : OK (it was a bug on all previous version when not using a vvga monitor to boot but only a tv)

 

[oldfart]

Anyone have any before and after on Q3 ver 1.27? I have Team Arena which forces a Q3 upgrade to 1.27. I see no change in framerates on Q3 demo127 and TA mpdemo1.

 

[Spoooon]

I only got an extra 2 fps on QIII and no change (except that my minimum framerate was lower) on Evolva.

 

[MGMorden]

I wish they would release some fricking decent Win2k drivers!!!!!!!! I'm sitting here stuck with a TnT2. I don't want to get a GeForce anything, but the Radeon's Win2k drivers stink, and 3dfx is out of business!!!

 

[rubberneck]

I know what you mean, MG....I will not order a Radeon until new Win 2000 drivers are released (assuming they bring performance up to Win 9.x levels). With the NT kernel being the future for OS's, I hope ATI recognizes that Win 2000 performance is vital for the future.

 

[audreymi]

I do not run Win2K but I am told that the following drivers run within
10% of the Win98/ME drivers.

I have waited two days for the dust to settle on the nwe 7062 drivers. I think I will download them today.

 

[MGMorden]

Thanks for the link audrey. I'm going to download the drivers in case I go for the Radeon. I just wish that some sites did reviews on driver updates. Most of them do a review when the card is released, will say it has driver issues and then will never say whether or not they have been corrected. I just wish I had more options. I'm tired of Nvidia.