ATI HD5800 / Catalyst Improvements, Bugs, Fixes

didnt know there was a 3d mode with ati cards?

 

Ever since the ATI movie "Final Fantasy: The Sprites within" bombed at the box office theres been an emphasis on 3D rendering.

 

Hello again. It seems distortion has been fixed for most, if not all HD5000 users, though I still see HD4000 users with problem. And both HD4000 and HD5000 users have limited 120hz, since it only works in native.

A few cases on distortion

- Completely uninstalled 9.11 on Win 7 X64. Installed 9.12 but the screen still flickers on the desktop in 120hz! HD4830 user

- The issue has not been fixet yet with 48xx series, atleast with my HD4850.

- I got a Radeon 5850 with Catalyst 9.12 and I get massive annyoing flickering on my screen (Samsung 2233RZ LCD 120 hz) when running at 120 HZ. But as soon as I switch back to 60 HZ, the flickering is gone.

A few cases on the 120hz limited to native

- 9.12 still limits 120hz to native. HD4870 X2 user

- my CFG: Samsung 2233rz 120hz + HD5870 + win7 64bits. 9.12 results: perfect 120hz in native resolution... but a crappy 60hz in every other resolutions. Problem not totally solve... need 120hz in all res'.

 

So Mass Effect 2 is out in 5 days, Nvidia have already released drivers with a SLI profile, unless the Catalyst 10.1's which I'm guessing will be released sometime next week also have a Crossfire profile it looks like AMD has let another top game get released without proper support.

The 5870 doesn't seem to be that much faster then the GTX 285 with AA enabled either according to benchmarks.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,...lactic-battle-Geforce-versus-Radeon/Practice/

 

As long as it's the fastest card in the game it really doesn't matter...
Lack of proper support would entail rendering errors or bugs, since it doesn't, it supports the game perfectly.

 

I don't think the 5970 owners will think the same if it doesn't have a crossfire profile.

 

Is crossfire profile really needed?

 

If 5900 users want their (dual 5800) cards to perform better than a single 5800, I'm sure they do. I think we've seen enough cases were either the lack of a profile or improper "optimization" shows X2s having near or less performance than a single GPU.

 

do sli nv cards also need a profile ?

 

But it works and the game isn't out yet, for all you know they could release a mass effect 2 hotfix when the game ships.

 

a second cat 10.1 beta was leaked with better performance and the officals are this week. Using old drivers wont get you anywhere.

 

Who said anything about old drivers

 

I guess this answers your question: http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17372/1/
(and could say more or less the same about this as broken hope did wrt mass effect )

 

Does ATI's SSAA work with Mass Effect?

 

I was sayin that there are two newer drivers than the ones used in the review .

 

But I never said a nything about that...

 

IT was in reply to your hotfix idea for mss effect 2. There are already two newer beta drivers out with the offical ones to come out this week before mass effect 2. I don't think they need a hotfix with brand new drivers heading out this week

 

Those are not official betas, at least from what I have read. I really wish they would have released a hotfix, it is annoying to have to download a cracked exe to be able to get AA working. This is really my biggest problem with ATI, they release drivers for a game like 4-6 weeks after the game comes out... They do that so when websites get around to adding this game to their benchmarks it will still make them(ati) look good without having to pour to many resources on that game, but the gamers get no benefit since they are not playing that game anymore.

 

Yep, it does.

 

THen get the offical drivers that were released 1 day before the game actually ships

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=win7/windows-7-64bit

THe only way you would have the game already is if it shipped to you early , you illegaly downloaded it or you have a friend at gamestop.

Don't fault ati for having a driver out before a game comes out.