Nvidia, ATI Release New Drivers

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  • wickedsnow
    Awesome!
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  • SirCrono
    Wow, those are some performance gains.
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  • kyeana
    when i tested it, the new ati overdrive tool clocked my 4850 to high, resulting in a blue screen
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  • warezme
    what about that ambient occlussion thing? I thought that was new. I tried it on Farcry 2 with dual 295's and it looked incredibly good but the next time I tried to run it all I got was a jigsaw of black squares with the scene appearing and disappearing underneath? It was odd. I turned it off and all was well. My 295's are OC'ed to 285 spec's though so that may be part of the issue.
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  • scooterlibby
    Warezme I got the same issue when I put AO up to high with FC2 using two GTX260's. I believe you don't get to choose the level of AO on the new drivers, so maybe it is solved.

    Tom's, why do you list the claimed performance boosts without testing them? Why parrot these claims when they rarely stand up to any scrutiny? At least don't parrot the driver claims like they are known facts. Sloppy cut and paste press release masquerading as a news item.
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  • IzzyCraft
    Mirror's Edge (45-percent).
    lol i sometimes wonder what set ups they are using to get these percentages
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  • thedipper
    Well, it's not like they're increasing performance beyond a well-optimized state.

    The reason they get huge performance gains from drivers is because the previous driver was causing slowdown with that engine.
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  • antemon
    linux drivers?

    :(
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  • hemelskonijn
    The new ATI drivers did not fix the frame-drop problem some of us (me and some friends) have with the HD3650 graphics cards.
    Though the systems we use differ a lot from each other we all seem to have lag-ish effects while both ping and fps are more then ok.

    In my case switching to the desktop and back seems to work though.
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  • ooo
    Does it work with the 8800 series ?
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