Catalyst 4.9

[Mailman]

Performance Improvements for CATALYST™ Display Driver Version 4.9

As with most CATALYST™ releases performance has increased in various situations. The following performance gains are noticed:

Doom3 performance improves 10-15% on ATI RADEON™ X800 XT products when anti-aliasing is enabled. UT2004 performance improves considerably on the ATI RADEON™ 9500 PRO, RADEON™ 9700 PRO RADEON™ 9800 PRO and RADEON™ 9800 XT products. The benefit can be 25% or more in some circumstances, particularly at extreme graphics settings such as 6xAA + 16xAF.



Issues Resolved in CATALYST™ Display Driver Version 4.9

The following section provides a summary of the issues that have been resolved in the latest version of CATALYST™. These include:

* XIII: Light map artifacts are no longer noticed in the game when loading a saved game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9200 installed
* Far Cry v1.2: Texture corruption is no longer seen on the ground
* IL2 Forgotten Battles: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 series installed no longer results in the display corruption and the game failing to respond when FSAA is enabled and display is set to either 1200x960 or 1600x1200
* Indian Jones and the Emperors Tomb: Display corruption and missing polygons are no longer noticed in the game
* PainKiller: missing textures are no longer noticed on the ground and light artifacts are noticed when moving around within the game or when moving in and out of the light.
* Serious Sam SE: Running the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 PRO installed no longer results in lens flares showing through solid objects within the game
* Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: An access violation error no longer occurs when using the function Alt-Tab to get out of the game and then using the function Alt-Tab to get back into the game
* Tabula Rasa: Video rendering issues are no longer noticed playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9700 PRO installed
* Tony Hawk 4: playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9100 installed no longer results in white pixels being seen around the edges of objects
* Connecting an HDTV 7pin dongle to the video card no longer results in TV detection issues when both the TV and YPbPr (HDTV) are active
* Playing a DVD with PowerDVD on the primary display and playing an MPEG clip with Windows Media Player on the secondary display device no longer results in flickering and corruption being seen.

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[LorD ClockaN]

Nekako su ih brzo izdali nakon 4.8

[Renesis]

Neka neka, samo neka oni to brzo izdavaju, bolje nama...

Al ovaj performance u UT-u ću baš vidjet....

[Toncek]

Zadnji omega driveri su 2.5.67 to su kao catalyst 4.8 ili?

[Mailman]

Originally posted by Toncek
Zadnji omega driveri su 2.5.67 to su kao catalyst 4.8 ili?

Točno...

[Roller]

Originally posted by Renesis
Neka neka, samo neka oni to brzo izdavaju, bolje nama...

Al ovaj performance u UT-u ću baš vidjet....

U UT200X su razlike gotovo neprimjetne, Doom3 nisam isprobao jer prezirem igru , no 3Dmark2001SE me iznenadio: skoro 16000 po defaultu dok je 4.8 davao nešto iznad 14000, u 2003 razlike su minorne...no dobro, cijenim svaki pomak ka zrelosti drivera

[Denzil]

Originally posted by Mailman
Točno...

A sta su Omega Driveri?? I gdje ih skinem ako su bolji od "obicnih"??

[Emissary]

Originally posted by Denzil
A sta su Omega Driveri?? I gdje ih skinem ako su bolji od "obicnih"??

Omega su 3rd party driveri odnosno ne izdaje ih ATI već comunity fanATIka a omogućuju nekakve softmodove(softverska promjena u jaču karticu) i ne znam što još jer nisam ponosni vlasnik ATI kartice.
A download imaš na PCekspert download sekciji, naravno

[Mailman]

Here is a quote from Terry Makedon when he was interviewed by a German Magazine:

"ATI supports the enthusiast community wholly. Omega Drivers are in fact a good example of ATI’s user community at its best. What they are in principle are CATALYST drivers with different settings enabled via registry keys and other such methods. This provides users an alternative to ATI’s CATALYST default settings. While there are a few different modification drivers out in the community our relationship with the creator of the Omega Drivers is of the highest working standard. The author of these drivers is part of the CATALYST beta driver testing team and also in direct contact with ATI. In fact we would go so far as to say that if a user chooses to go the mod driver route they go with the Omega Drivers."