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| | (Post a comment) » CATALYST 3.9 Driver ReportContinuing their commitment to monthly driver releases, last week ATI unveiled its CATALYST 3.9 driver set. Unlike CATALYST 3.8, CATALYST 3.9 doesn’t introduce any new features, but it does bring one promising new capability to the RADEON 9600 XT: OVERDRIVE. Read about the OVERDRIVE clock speeds and our OVERDRIVE experience with the RADEON 9600 XT, and of course, we’ve got numbers from the RADEON 8500 all the way up to the RADEON 9800 XT. Read all about it in today’s CATALYST 3.9 driver report! |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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Anonymous at 11:22pm 11/18/2003
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So far I've only seen one difference in any game, & none in GPU
tempeture (measured w/wired probe & in BIOS), which pretty much
confirms what you've said, however the difference does in fact
matter to me, as "Halo" seems to look better & run a
bit smoother, aside from that no noticable changes, I would however
suggest that anyone NOT running an "XT" seris card (mine
is a 128mb 9800Pro) be sure to disable "VPU-recover",
which for some strange reason seems to cause issues that LOOK just
like the kind of problem you would have if you were to overclock
your card slightly too high (ie: artifacts)... makes no sense, since
my card doesn't support this feature anyway, but it caused problems
nevertheless.
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Anonymous at 08:38am 11/16/2003
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My 3d Hercules 9800pro 128 mb just crash and appeared numbers
of Lines while on screen. It supposed hardware problems of the
cards or used the cat.3.4 & 3.9 ??? Headache planned to changed
Gcard to Gfx5900 will be better!! What happedn to ATI card???
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Anonymous at 02:09am 11/16/2003
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3.8s better faster stronger 3.9s weak response to make better next
time maybee ati
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Anonymous at 02:08am 11/16/2003
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3.8s better faster stronger 3.9s weak response ati to new driver
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David, Cardiff, U.K. at 09:34pm 11/14/2003
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I did not know this, although I had read something about it
somewhere.
Is it worth disabling this for my 9800 128MB, on my nForce2 MB BIOS?
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Anonymous at 03:24am 11/14/2003
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just follow the rules of snooker, although a brown is only worth 4
points and certainly less than a 6 point pink, it is still better
than a 1 point red.
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Anonymous at 03:14am 11/14/2003
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Personally I don't really believe what I read from the developers,
cos they all say everything is working fine, and those things that
where working fine in the last release but caused some people
problems (but wheren't bugs obviously as everything was fine) are
fixed. When it turns out they wheren't.
I did allude to the frame rate fixing in Nvidia drivers, now whislt
they might mess up some benchmarks they really DON'T make a half
pennies difference to me as an end user, so I get 79 fps with 3
extra jaggies rather than 78 fps and not have those 3 jaggies... so
what?
I really can't be bothered with the whole fanboy garbage myself, all
I want is a stable PC that plays my games, yes playing them faster
is better but NOT at the cost of stability.
I will say again this driver doesn't seem to really adresse any of
the issues that people have complained about with cat3.8 a quick
trawl around the forums shows that loads of people are complaining
about 3.9, more than are cheering them. To me thats not a good sign,
and makes me glad that I don't have these problems with Nvidia....
Personally I wish ATI would get their driver act together, cos when
I replace my GF4200 I want to feel confident that if I decide to go
for ATI that I will get decent stability. My bugbear is that having
a monthly release schedule isn't going to drive forward stability as
the driver team will be working harder to get a new driver out the
door next month than they will be to get a flawless driver ready
whenever.
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Anonymous at 11:35pm 11/13/2003
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No, ATI driver releases are like a woman's period: it comes monthly
and creates grief for us guys!
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b0bd0le at 02:33pm 11/13/2003
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fast writes with ati cards is useless, it is actaully a performance
HIT if you have it enabled...
it made about 100 point difference in 3dmark01 with my 9700 and a
2.4ghz athlon, and it ran call of duty perfectly with 6x af and 16x
AA
summary: turn off FW for ati cards
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Anonymous at 02:31pm 11/13/2003
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im not buying ATI there driviers are a joke
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