ATI 7.10 drivers???

[dasgoat]

has anyone done a writeup on these? and if they deliver the performance that is claimed? i know it is still early but i kinda want to see some benches.

 

[mactronix]

Cant even get the poxy thing installed just spent half an hour sorting out the pc running 7.7 again as it works !
Mactronix

 

[decoy26517]

I wanna know the Same, AMD is claiming some huge increases just with drivers and I wanna know if their telling truth about this.

 

[kpo6969]

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2194827,00.asp

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2193650,00.asp

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2193657,00.asp

I read another article last nite but can't find it now.
In a nutshell, more improvement in Crossfire than single mode (whatever the improvement is)

 

[justinmcg67]

This says it all...

Single GPU Performance

Updated (10/10/07): The move from the 7.9 driver to the 7.10 "Shoot-em-up" Catalyst update didn't have much of an effect on our single graphics card performance at all. In only one or two instances did we see any changes, and neither was what I would call "drastic" enough to change my opinion on the HD 2900 XT for the current generation of DX10 games. The HD 2900 XT is a solid competitor against NVIDIA's 8800 GTS 640MB, but the Catalyst 7.10 driver hasn't done anything to overtake it.

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=463

 

[shargrath]

quote thing:
Update (10/10/07): We asked and AMD was on the ball -- when we said that "AMD needed to put some work in" they were apparently doing just that. While the single card performance of the HD 2900 XT didn't improve as much as I was hoping, the fact that AMD was able to address so many CrossFire issues all at once leads me to believe that more performance gains are on the way.
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any way i think i'll download this and give it a try at least its not subtracting performance...

 

[shoota]

i just tried the new drivers and i just benched F.E.A.R. With the 7.7 drivers the ave. fps was 56 and with the new 7.10 it jumped up to 68! a 12.5% increase ain't too bad hopefully it's the same across the board for all the other games and cards.

 

[SpeedyVV]

i just tried the new drivers and i just benched F.E.A.R. With the 7.7 drivers the ave. fps was 56 and with the new 7.10 it jumped up to 68! a 12.5% increase ain't too bad hopefully it's the same across the board for all the other games and cards.

Thanks for posting. I think that is awsome. If nVidia released a driver that would give me a 12FPS increase I would pee my pants!

 

[justinmcg67]

i just tried the new drivers and i just benched F.E.A.R. With the 7.7 drivers the ave. fps was 56 and with the new 7.10 it jumped up to 68! a 12.5% increase ain't too bad hopefully it's the same across the board for all the other games and cards.

Do you own any DX10 games? if so, please bench those.

 

[enewmen]

This says it all...



http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=463

Nice link.
I did see some gains on single GPUs though.

 

[justinmcg67]

The gains were most notably in Multi-GPU set ups. While that is a fact, there is another fact...it's not a 70% gain as they claim.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

The gains were most notably in Multi-GPU set ups. While that is a fact, there is another fact...it's not a 70% gain as they claim.

Actually they only claimed 70% in 2 games, and one far outstripped that and the other fell short. Considering it's pretty much a 'best case scenario' how can we tell where it's a fact or not based on the short test in PCper? They got 93 and 50 % increases in those 2 games.

Perhaps not the full 70% for Bioshock, but enough of an improvement to not write it off as conclusive from just one sample of tests.

Although the humourous part is even than 90% improvement was still unplayable.

 

[randomizer]

I still can't get 30fps in crysis on low. When will AMD stop this drop-support-after-6-months thing?

 

[justinmcg67]

I still can't get 30fps in crysis on low. When will AMD stop this drop-support-after-6-months thing?

Never. To answer your question.

Really seldom companies support out dated products, or products they intend on replacing. Either that or they'll get les and less support. A GREAT example is the support from EA Games and Battlefield 2. That game NEEDS support, but the game is no longer their top Battlefield product, so it receives no support. Or why X1800XT's get nowhere near support an HD2900XT would. See what I'm getting at with this?

 

[shargrath]

also with this "software crossfire" sounds interesting too

Never. To answer your question.
Really seldom companies support out dated products, or products they intend on replacing. Either that or they'll get les and less support. A GREAT example is the support from EA Games and Battlefield 2. That game NEEDS support, but the game is no longer their top Battlefield product,

support for battlefield 2142 may as well have died 8months ago.

 

[enewmen]

I still can't get 30fps in crysis on low. When will AMD stop this drop-support-after-6-months thing?

I won't even try to run Crysis until the Yokfield & r700/g100 comes out. By then, even DX10/Vista may be mature