New ATI Drivers

[Wook]

i h4xor u all... 128 ddr ram, 2.5ghz p4, ati radeon 7000.. yes thast right 7000..... the vid card that u can get for about 40 bucks now.. haha

[LX Boi]

how come my the drivers arent working?!?!?

my geforce 2 isnt responding to the new drivers and is creating all sorts of problems with my comp!! SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!! PLZ!!!!



lol im jk.......... but the new driver did fuck up my controls ;[ back to catalisk 3.1 then...

[Lord_Sauron]

I gotta 9500pro and 3.4 makes cs and UT2k3 run like crap.I'm going back to 3.1.Hope they fix it soon but it looks like both ati and nvidia are kinda havin some driver probs.

[-:Nighthawk:-]

Current games are going to reflect different score variations than upcoming games, keep that in mind.



Some Doom III engine benchmarks, for reference:

1024x768 - Medium Quality No AA / No Aniso

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra - 104 FPS

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB - 77 FPS

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1280x1024 - Medium Quality 4X AA / 8X Quality Aniso

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra - 38 FPS

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB - 29 FPS

Other games are going to give you different scores, but no, those are not fabricated numbers. (Anadtech) I primarily play Half-Life based games, so really GF2 and above are all excellent for my purposes, whether the card comes from ATI or nVIDIA. I'm still happier with nV's driver program, but like I said, ATI is getting better with time.

[Gaill.arD]

Mr. T wrote..

Hey, I went to the ATI site just before this thing was posted (4 am my time) and like there was some HL2 shit there! that NVIDIA rumor was wrong.

The machines demoing HL2 at E3 were running ATI cards.

[Coolleroy]

FX 5900 is awesome, go get it now. Screw ATI

[Alkhawholic]

i have an ati radeon 9100 card. what are the drivers fixing for the card. do i need to download all drivers in order. please help me because i dont know much

[-:Nighthawk:-]

Just download the 3.1's probably, as it seems plenty of people have had troubles with every version beyond that. And no, don't download all the drivers in order, heh. :)

[ukHazard]

Weird, weird, weird! When you press escape with the new ATi 3.4s, you get a long delay before the screen pops up again. Its as if they worked out a fix to the 3.2 problem, rather than removing the problem in the first place...



Am i babbling incoherently?

[stooopid]

wow... i have the same gfx card as rizzuh... I smell good too.

[Gameshot911]

A important update....i mean everyone knows that a vid card is useless without AA. =P

[ryand2000]

Screw ATI! Nvidia is the only way to go. And to prolong a flame war, I HAVE A GEFORCE FX 5200!!!

[rizzuh]

ryand2000 wrote..

Screw ATI! Nvidia is the only way to go. And to prolong a flame war, I HAVE A GEFORCE FX 5200!!!

No more posts like this or people are going to get banned! Consider it a subtle tip that perhaps you need a little more outside time. They're just chips.

[shurcool]

yeah, thanks for news rizzuh, not that i really care about AA anyway (on my new 17" 1280x1024 lcd, it's probly kinda useless anyway...), never did when i had my old crt either. ;\ oh well, i'll give it a try just for the heck of it now. too bored. so thanks for the news.

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just wanted to add that this is what i hate about updating drivers from ATi. :@



first of all, it always resets all your settings (since control display gets reinstalled, i guess), thus going back to 640x480 and messing up my whole desktop. now i have to rearrange all the icons again. ;\



and also, for some reason windows won't detect the max resolution/refresh rate of my lcd monitor anymore. ;/



gEEgEE. ;o

[Mobius?]

the current drivers work fine, why should i update?