[Babel-17]

Yeah, I tested the link and it seems to be broken.

Ditto at guru3d. http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=4358251

[Malo]

Originally Posted by Alexko

They're remaking it.

Knowing publishers nowadays, have they turned it into a third person corridor shooter with cutscenes and QTE's?

[Alexko]

Originally Posted by Malo

Knowing publishers nowadays, have they turned it into a third person corridor shooter with cutscenes and QTE's?

Yes.

Well, actually there are two competing remakes of this game, one of them is true to the original, one of them is pretty much what you've described. I can't remember which is which.

Edit: I think XCOM is the FPS/TPS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM) and XCOM Enemy Unknown is the tactical, turn-based one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown).

It will be interesting to see which one is most successful.

[Arnold Beckenbauer]

Originally Posted by Arnold Beckenbauer

AMD Catalyst™ 12.6 Beta Driver for AMD Radeon™ HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 Series

Links don't work (for me).

This driver supports my mobile HD3470 (WinXP x32). Nice!

[no-X]

It seems, that the links are fine, but it isn't possible to download any driver from www2.ati.com at this moment...

[Davros]

seems to be working again

[swaaye]

I wonder if this release fixes the problems with 12.4 and the 4000 series in some games. I will try it on my 3850 when I get a chance.

Originally Posted by Arnold Beckenbauer

This driver supports my mobile HD3470 (WinXP x32). Nice!

You want 9.11 so you can play Flash in hardware. I have a notebook with a 3450 and found that out with a lot of web searching. I suppose if you game then the latest drivers could be worthwhile though. But the 34x0 is so slow at any sort of modern gaming...

Unfortunately, because AMD does not appear to keep an archive of Mobility drivers, I have been unable to find a working Mobility 9.11 package and have to force install the desktop release. Mobility Modder doesn't work past ~9.3 apparently.

[Moloch]

On my 7850 I was having periodic display corruption issues with the 12.7 beta when either just idling or watching videos and plenty of driver stopped responding messages and it would often fail to resume from the S3 power state(or the long idle state I think), giving me just a blank screen, was getting pissed when I decided to try the 12.6 WHQL drivers, the issues disappeared but I have to use ctrl alt del to wake my monitor up now, like my video card isn't turning back on or something till I do so. I presume having to bring up task manager to get my display to turn back on from sleep is not a design feature, so how do I fix that?
I do have a rather shit mobo, Msi 870A-g54, not sure if that has anything to do with it, I have the latest bios, however.

[CarstenS]

Even though the Beta-page states resolved issues for Windows XP, I cannot find a 12.7 beta that installs under XP - typo?

"Resolved Issues for the Windows® 7, Windows Vista® and Windows XP Operating System

Elder Scrolls: Skyrim- screen flickering when in AMD CrossFire™ mode
Note: This issue was first observed with version 1.6 of Skyrim."

[no-X]

They are missing. But you can download XP version of the QQ-fix built on 12.7 beta here: http://downloads.guru3d.com/AMD-Cata...load-2938.html

[CarstenS]

Great! That also answers my second question which I was about to post: Where to get OpenCL for XP. 12.6 and 12.4 do not seem to have it, but this hotfix does. Thanks!

edit: Looks like I cheered to early. Anyone here seen an OpenCL-enabled Tahiti-Driver for WinXP? APP-SDK 2.6 didn't work for me either.

[Arnold Beckenbauer]

Originally Posted by swaaye

...

You want 9.11 so you can play Flash in hardware. I have a notebook with a 3450 and found that out with a lot of web searching. I suppose if you game then the latest drivers could be worthwhile though. But the 34x0 is so slow at any sort of modern gaming...

What do you mean? Youtube says (fullscreen mode): accelerated video rendering, software video decoding. On my desktop PC with a HD4850 video decoding is done by the GPU.
Will I get hardware decoding with 9.11?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2876

- ATI Radeon™ HD 4000, HD 5700 and HD 5800 series graphics
- ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4000 series graphics (and higher)
- ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 integrated graphics (and higher)
- ATI FirePro™ V3750, V5700, V7750, V8700 and V8750 graphics accelerators (and later)

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...on,2805-4.html

AMD only requires its second-generation Unified Video Decoder (UVD2 for discrete and UVD+ for integrated).

[swaaye]

Originally Posted by Arnold Beckenbauer

What do you mean? Youtube says (fullscreen mode): accelerated video rendering, software video decoding.

If you run Catalyst 9.11, yes the 3000 series discrete chips will also do accelerated decoding. It allows me to watch 720p Flash video on my slow Athlon Neo subnote that has a 3450. That is the only driver release that will do it. It seems a little touchy because scaling the window and seeking can cause it to drop back to software decode, but it definitely does work.

[no-X]

swaaye: Does it work only with HD 3000, or both HD 2000 / 3000?

[swaaye]

Originally Posted by no-X

swaaye: Does it work only with HD 3000, or both HD 2000 / 3000?

It works with both my desktop HD 3850 and notebook HD 3450, but I don't have any HD 2000 series hardware around to try.

[Arnold Beckenbauer]

Originally Posted by swaaye

If you run Catalyst 9.11, yes the 3000 series discrete chips will also do accelerated decoding. It allows me to watch 720p Flash video on my slow Athlon Neo subnote that has a 3450. That is the only driver release that will do it. It seems a little touchy because scaling the window and seeking can cause it to drop back to software decode, but it definitely does work.

It looks like I have to kill all newer DLLs with DriverCleane to install 9.11, but I won't do that.

[swaaye]

Originally Posted by Arnold Beckenbauer

It looks like I have to kill all newer DLLs with DriverCleane to install 9.11, but I won't do that.

I haven't found a nice package of 9.11 that will automatically install on my notebook. I have to do a manual driver install. On the desktop with 3850, the 9.11 pack installs automatically without issue. It's why I wish they had an archive of old Mobility packages.

[swaaye]

I tried the 12.6 Beta Legacy pack on the HD 3850. It seems to work fine with SupCom2 anyway. Of course they haven't fixed Skyrim. I suppose that is simply not going to happen.

[Kaarlisk]

I wonder what happens with Windows 8 and legacy cards. Will the legacy driver at some point begin supporting Win8, so we can have OpenGL, or will Win8 stay on drivers supplied by Windows Update (without OpenGL, and possibly on a schedule different from the legacy releases).
I know the legacy driver should work in Win8, as it still supports WDDM1.1., but maybe there is a difference between that driver and the Win8 inbox driver.

[Kaotik]

Originally Posted by swaaye

Radeon HD 3850. Specifically, this one.

Ooo, I had GeCube 3850 512MB too, but it wasn't under that name IIRC, same cooler though

[Sound_Card]

Originally Posted by loekf

Sorry AMD, but is it so hard to make the overscan/underscan settings "stick" ?

12.4: works ok

12.6: whatever you set them to, after a reboot the settings go back to the default ones

I tried various things, incl. a fresh install of 12.6, but nothing helps.

Oh well.. back to 12.4

Go to "Pixel format" under the tab "my digital flat panels". Change to RGB 4:4:4 mapping. You are more than likely using HDMI to HDMI.

[Davros]

Originally Posted by Arnold Beckenbauer

What do you mean? Youtube says (fullscreen mode): accelerated video rendering, software video decoding

Is my pc doing hardware accelerated ?

[swaaye]

Yes the GPU is decoding the H.264 stream but it is not helping display the video (software rendering). I think the rendering is just accelerated video scaling.

[Davros]

Tried it fullscreen


So can a 6950 not do hardware rendering in a window ?

[Kaotik]

Originally Posted by Davros

Tried it fullscreen


So can a 6950 not do hardware rendering in a window ?

Seems to be same on HD6870.

But it's not just about windowed mode, as MPCHC for example does hardware rendering in windowed mode too.