CATALYST 3.0 Update

OK, first game out of the box was Mafia. It looks like CRAP!!! There are these stange lines which extend across the screen. The shadows are flashing along with the player. All in all they are terrible.

Enough of this ATI stuff for me. It's back to Nvidia Tomorrow. Best Buy here I come!!

 

Tried it..didn't help much. I honestly don't know if I would call my problem stuttering. The reason is because it's more of a nano second pause every once in awhile. Other than that the game runs smooth.

 

Welp, I installed this newer set. I still get the overlay/graphic corruption problem in Big Slale Racing, but it's not quite as severe as it was with the older 3.0's. It never causes a crash, so it's tolerable. This problem doesn't exist in the 2.5's.

In 3DMark, I only lost about 40 points, could just be that fluctuation in scores thing, I only ran the test once.

The drivers installed just fine for me, no problems or quirks with that.

IQ does seem to be cleaner and sharper.

I haven't checked too many games as I need to go to sleep soon, but they seem fine so far.

I'll report any other problems later, if I find any.

 

update

the new drivers did not help my studdering problem any at all, nascar 2002 season seems most.

 

so can I have your r9700 because I'm really lovin ATI about now In fact, I'd trade ya my Gainward Ti4200 and some cash for it!

I had the omegadrivers on. Uninstalled those reboot. cleaned windows and regedit. Installed drivers. On reboot realized I had no CP. So got that and installed it. Upon reboot it told me it could not initialize CP because no ATI drivers were found.. wtf??? So go back to add/remove and remove all. Reboot clean windows and regedit again. reboot. install drivers then Cp and then reboot. and absolute BEAUTY! Now I don't play Mafia but Spearhead and MOHAA is simply amazing. Good job ATI!

For those of you with CP problems or other general driver problems (I mean not game specific ie Mafia) try cleaning out everything first. INF, windows, c: and registry from all previous ATI stuff then lay on new drivers and CP in that order...

Good luck everyone!

 

I would like to see one feature: under Display Properties/Advanced/(ATI)Options/Details - detection of versions of Direct3D and OpenGL components.

One more thing - Direct3D quality is not so good as Omega's 2.3.55 set... but OpenGL is better than previos 3.0s...

 

Re: Capture problem resolved?

Anyone?

 

So far so good

All games i have tried work very well. Have tried UT2003, Mohaa, spearhead, Battlefield 1942 .

No problems........Thanks ATI

 

These drivers work fine for me as well. No stuttering at all unlike the horrible problems I had with the original 3.0s. These drivers seem to have alpha blending enabled just like Omega's latest

 

I've played around with these a bit more and...

....I got to admit that these ain't bad, ain't bad at all. They haven't had any of the usual little glitches for me in 98se on me 8500. The refresh rates seem to work without forcing, the control panel controls things, and everything just feels/acts all around solid for me. I haven't had any problems yet with gaming, but I just finished up a wipe/install on Bubbles to give the 8500 a clean start. (I've been mixing bits too much again, it was time. ) These impress me, they impress me mightily.

 

Well, just for giggles, I dropped an old Radeon Classic into my machine and let Windows install its default drivers. Then I fired up Serious Sam to see this:



Needless to say, I installed the new Catalyst drivers. They installed pretty smoothly (Windows took its sweet time to re-detect my monitor, though). Serious Sam runs very well. At 1024x768, it is skippy, but still playable. I feel that these drivers gave a me at least a minor boost in performance. As far as image quality goes, I was pretty surprised! Serious Sam on my old Radeon 7200 looks better than it used to on my GeForce3!

Anyway, good job with the Catalysts. They run very well, and I had no trouble installing them (every once in a while, a Catalyst release does give me trouble).

 

3d mark is about the same

rallisport is finally playable without 3d analyze,bf1942,gta3 runs fine

i`m must admit that i never have a problem besides stuttering with ati drivers

nice driver set

 

Ditto, but is it just me or are they really getting better about 'em as opposed to the last time when it was just a PR improvement?

(I really don't mean to sound so damned fanboyish on ATI lately, I'm just actually enjoying the hell out of me 8500 for the first time! )

 

hmmm... i c no big problems on this new driver so far i guess im going to download it now

 

I have throughly tested the new drivers. I installed about every game I own at this time. From what I can tell All OpenGL games shuttering have been fixed. A few things I noticed that vsync plays a big role in the shuddering in Quake3 engine games shuddering. I also wanted to with D3D games and test the stabilty and smoothness in this current set. All in all the stabily has risin and all my games were smooth as butter even with fsaa and aniso on.

Now the current bugs I am still seeing.
Maddin 2k3 - very well documented and ATi know of this bug already. Weater Bug

Mafia still some flashy textures in the shodows under the cars.
But dont happen near as often as it did in older drivers.

3DMark 2002 score stayed the same no differences.

Games tested:

Maddin 2k3 - Weather bug
Mafia - Flash textrues in shaddows under cars
Mohaa - no issues great! (vsync helps alot)
UT2K3 - no issues great!
Battlefield 1942 - no issues great!(vsync helps alot)
RTCW - no issues great!(vsync helps alot)
Max Payne no issues great!
Jedi Knight - no issues great!(vsync helps alot)
Hitman 2 - no issues great!
SS2 - no issues great!
GTA3 - no issues great!
Marrowind - no issues great!
Need For Speed :HP2 no issues great!
NBA Live 2k3 - no issues great!
NOLF 2 - no issues great!
Hotwheels - no issues great!
SplinterCell demo - no issues great!
Porn Star 3d :evil: um works rather well fsaa helps alot needs truform support though lol

System:
AXP 2400+ @2133mhz
MSI kt3 ultra 2 raid
512 meg corsair pc 3500
audigy 2
Ati r9700 pro
2x wd 80 gig jb hdd`s
netgear nic

 

Excellent improvement for me . Serious Sam 2 , Mafia , Madden 2003 , HighHeat all look great.

For what its worth a 3dMark of 14,120 running at 1.67 { 9x185 }. Very nice!

Not sure I need to update my cpu just yet




A7N8X Deluxe
XP1500@ 1.67 {9X185}
Corsair 512mb 3200
Maxtor 40gb x2
Sapphire 9700 Pro Cat 3.0A
Antec 480 True
Alpha 8045 w/Tornado 31c/38c
Windtunnell IV Case
Aopen 16x dvd
Sonly 40x Writer

 

DroneZ!

Man, I gained like 8fps in me average compared to the 2.5 and it look good! Have they been playing with the openGL a lot?

 

I just got my new system setup last night. So the only game Ive installed is UT2K3.
It has improved this game. THe frame loss has been reduced.
It still stutters. It still has the frameloss. Not as bad so they are going in the right direction for sure.
I still get pausing and stutter and really slow movements however sO I thought Id let joo all know so that maybe you can have ati work alittle more on this game.
Frames seem to be up in this game for me with this set however.
Nice work
Keep em rolling out.

 

Set works good on UT2k3, AC2, AO, Diablo 2 LOD...BUT...Ruined Dungeon Siege. Random hard locks intermitten while playing....Sucks big time..