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Anyone seen any performance improvement?

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> Anyone seen any performance improvement?
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The release notes do not mention much in the way of improvements or fixes in
this release. I see no reason to install, wait until next month.
 

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Agreed. They don't fix anything I use and there is no claim of a
performance increase. This is a minor release fixing a few obsure issues.

JK

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>> Anyone seen any performance improvement?
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> The release notes do not mention much in the way of improvements or fixes
> in
> this release. I see no reason to install, wait until next month.
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Previous driver releases showed 3-10% improvements in certain games, but
only at low resolutions where the game is driver-bound. Not too useful one
way or the other.

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"First of One" <daxinfx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Previous driver releases showed 3-10% improvements in certain games, but
> only at low resolutions where the game is driver-bound. Not too useful one
> way or the other.
>

What I'd really like to find is a tech site that not only tests the latest
ATI drivers, but also how they perform with different cards. Most of the
sites that I've seen are running near start of the art cards with high power
CPU's. I'd like to know what the new drivers do for older cards like my
9800Pro. I used to be a Nvidia buyer before I switched to ATI and I know
with the Nvidia drivers most of the driver improvements where for their
newest cards. In fact a lot of guys with older Nvidia cards still where
running drivers that where over a year old because any newer drivers didn't
effect there older cards.
But here in the ATI group it seems that more people change their drivers
even if they have older cards. Anyway I'm sticking with the 4.12's for now.
I'm almost done with HL2 and the little performance gain with the new
drivers doesn't seem to be enough to bother with. JLC
 
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"Andi Cole" <andi@eloc00.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Anyone seen any performance improvement?

How can when they have no idea how to do it?
 

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Rage3d has a couple of articles exactly like that at the top of the page
atm. HL2 gets a decent boost with these drivers at tweaktown

Mike


"JLC" <j.jc@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "First of One" <daxinfx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:BfydnZqpJbixcHDcRVn-iQ@rogers.com...
>> Previous driver releases showed 3-10% improvements in certain games, but
>> only at low resolutions where the game is driver-bound. Not too useful
>> one
>> way or the other.
>>
>
> What I'd really like to find is a tech site that not only tests the latest
> ATI drivers, but also how they perform with different cards. Most of the
> sites that I've seen are running near start of the art cards with high
> power CPU's. I'd like to know what the new drivers do for older cards like
> my 9800Pro. I used to be a Nvidia buyer before I switched to ATI and I
> know with the Nvidia drivers most of the driver improvements where for
> their newest cards. In fact a lot of guys with older Nvidia cards still
> where running drivers that where over a year old because any newer drivers
> didn't effect there older cards.
> But here in the ATI group it seems that more people change their drivers
> even if they have older cards. Anyway I'm sticking with the 4.12's for
> now. I'm almost done with HL2 and the little performance gain with the new
> drivers doesn't seem to be enough to bother with. JLC
>
 

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Just looked at tweaktown, dont think that \s the one i read earlier. there
was one testing the 9800pro, x800pro and the top cards (nvidia equivelants
too). Its out there...

Mike

"Mike" <mikepos1@YAHOO.COM> wrote in message
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> Rage3d has a couple of articles exactly like that at the top of the page
> atm. HL2 gets a decent boost with these drivers at tweaktown
>
> Mike
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> "JLC" <j.jc@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:RLCdnSh-Goo4hXPcRVn-gA@comcast.com...
>>
>> "First of One" <daxinfx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:BfydnZqpJbixcHDcRVn-iQ@rogers.com...
>>> Previous driver releases showed 3-10% improvements in certain games, but
>>> only at low resolutions where the game is driver-bound. Not too useful
>>> one
>>> way or the other.
>>>
>>
>> What I'd really like to find is a tech site that not only tests the
>> latest ATI drivers, but also how they perform with different cards. Most
>> of the sites that I've seen are running near start of the art cards with
>> high power CPU's. I'd like to know what the new drivers do for older
>> cards like my 9800Pro. I used to be a Nvidia buyer before I switched to
>> ATI and I know with the Nvidia drivers most of the driver improvements
>> where for their newest cards. In fact a lot of guys with older Nvidia
>> cards still where running drivers that where over a year old because any
>> newer drivers didn't effect there older cards.
>> But here in the ATI group it seems that more people change their drivers
>> even if they have older cards. Anyway I'm sticking with the 4.12's for
>> now. I'm almost done with HL2 and the little performance gain with the
>> new drivers doesn't seem to be enough to bother with. JLC
>>
>
>
 
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The 9800Pro will hit its fillrate limit at a lower resolution /AA setting
than the X800. So, even assuming the HL2 optimizations are applicable to the
9800Pro, it won't be visible at the resolution most people play the game at.

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"JLC" <j.jc@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> But here in the ATI group it seems that more people change their drivers
> even if they have older cards. Anyway I'm sticking with the 4.12's for
now.
> I'm almost done with HL2 and the little performance gain with the new
> drivers doesn't seem to be enough to bother with. JLC
>
>