Cat 8.12 betas !!

Look here
http://www.mediafire.com/?h1ytmgy40w3
for Vista

http://www.mediafire.com/?dojmwyjn4nt

For xp

Very tempting. Too bad I'm really too busy right now. I hope they add some decent performance like they claim (though to be honest, I'm more that satisfied with my 4850 as is, the rest of my comp, however, could use an upgrade).

I'm going to try them. Hopefully, they'll help quite a bit on the i7 platform.

They don't seem to work with my 4870x2. I can't get them to install properly. I might mess with them more when I have time, but for now, it's 8.11's.

Heres for xp
http://www.mediafire.com/?dojmwyjn4nt

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php? [...] 2&Itemid=1

some are nice, others not really that substantial. not sure whether these leaked betas are going to perform as well...

Couldnt agree more as far as ATI standing up and saying that the newer drivers wont benefit older cards. I guess its even possable that some of the drivers will hurt performance. What would be nice idealy is for ATI to say OK we are at the end of development of drivers for X/Y or Z cards and here are the drivers that work best for these cards or possably offer up to three versions (just in case ).

Mactronix

Thanks for the link jaydee will install and post the results.

Well, I seem to have them working, and there's a definite improvement in Crysis. I haven't tested anything else yet.

Ooooo, me likey

Like what?

I'd give performance on Command and Conquer Red Alert 3, but I can't seem to get that one working yet.

wasnt targeting anybody specific lol, just that list kari pasted/linked. Just any "normal" game really, FPS are usually a bad game source to test a card's abilities, the picture isnt clear.

What I ment, for example is Crysis. It makes card Z look like garbage, but card Z performs great in all other games. So its a misleading game for benchmarking.

So here are my FC2 findings from XP64 and Vista32. Can't get the benchmark working so this is just a measurement of min-max at the same starting point with some running around and grenade tossing for a couple of minutes. From 8.11, the max FPS spikes way higher to much surprise. The min seems to be pretty close across the board. There is a huge bug with XP64 running at 2xAA with xfire. It also seems like XP dx9 doesn't run as well as Vista dx9.

1440x900
4870 @ 790/1100 (edit: 512MB versions)
X3350 @3.4GHz
4GB RAM


FC2 - (UHigh settings with VHigh Shadows)
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...noAA........................................................

XP-64 (dx9, single GPU): 55-70 FPS
XP-64 (dx9, xfire) : 55-70 FPS

vista-32 (dx9, single GPU): 52-75 FPS
vista-32 (dx9, xfire): 53-148 FPS

vista-32 (dx10.1, single GPU): 42-114 FPS
vista-32 (dx10.1, xfire): 40-120 FPS

...2xAA.......................................................


XP-64 (dx9, single GPU): 50-65 FPS
XP-64 (dx9, xfire) : 15-25 FPS (not playable)

vista-32 (dx9, single GPU): 48-70 FPS
vista-32 (dx9, xfire): 51-160 FPS

vista-32 (dx10.1, single GPU): 41-104 FPS
vista-32 (dx10.1, xfire): 42-122 FPS


...4xaa.......................................................

XP-64 (dx9, single GPU): 7-10 FPS (not playable)
XP-64 (dx9, xfire) : 35-40 FPS (choppy, not playable)

vista-32 (dx9, single GPU): 44-60 FPS
vista-32 (dx9, xfire): 48-140 FPS

vista-32 (dx10.1, single GPU): 44-80 FPS
vista-32 (dx10.1, xfire): 43-130 FPS

^ it seems a lot more stable. All of the vista tests that I did ran very smoothly except 2xAA with a single GPU. It still didn't stutter but it was a little laggy feeling when looking around.

Maziar and anyone else who has a x2, it appears the startup bug has been fixed, meaning that both cores read 507Mhz in 2D

What you mean when you select anything below the R300 (like R9200 and lower) on the XP page that it takes you to this page;
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers [...] 00-xp.html

So seems like they do the same thing, the cutoff point is just different, right?

Ok, leak all you want... but it would be nice if someone would leak the 8.12 as Vista mobile drivers dang-it !!

While Im not sure of the performance increases on older cards, any ATI cards using stream processors, or from the 2xxx series onwards will benefit in some way from these drivers. CAL has been updated, and its being used for various things.

Try here, maybe thisll work
http://news.ati-forum.de/index.php [...] a-download
It was my original link, but with the update, I went with the other links. Try it, hope it worls

encoding, F@H etc

The other thing to remember is that actually the HD2K series is omitted from the encoding boost notes, and that's likelt due to the single precision limitation. I would wait for the official launch before hoping for anything.

I'm dissapointed, but I was planning on buying in the new year anyways.

what about ATI stream? Is it enabled in 8.12 RC3?

Does anyone have a beta version of the converter that ATI is planning to distribute? I want to try converting videos!

ok I just tried it and it seems pretty good. I was able to convert a 4gb fraps recorded video (2mins long) within 1 min 40 secs.

I've tried to convert a drama video file into psp format. The file is 1.05 gb and lasts for about 45 mins or so. The conversion completed in just 6 mins 42 seconds. Very impressive!

The lacking part of this is the interface but I guess it's simple enough to do its job. It's got a few bugs that it has to work out (screws up when I try to tweak the image quality). Another thing I find stupid about this is that you have to change back into "basic mode" to get it working. This option just doesn't appear in the advanced mode which I tend to side with.

Jaydee thanks for the link,i managed to DL it and when it finished i ran the setup and it installed but it seems nothing is installed,my graphic version is the same,i dont know what it installed but i am sure i dont have 8.12 beta