Thursday, April 15th 2010

AMD Releases Catalyst 10.4 Preview, Fixes Bad Company 2 Issue for Radeon HD5000 Users

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AMD released the ATI Catalyst 10.4 Preview driver suite. The driver builds on the feature-set of Catalyst 10.3, but packs a hotfix addressing an issue users of the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series are facing with Battlefield: Bad Company 2 regarding slow map load times. The new drivers reduce map load times. For users of Radeon HD 4000, HD 3000 and older GPUs, ATI assured that it will release a preview driver that does the same in a few days from now. The driver will be called Catalyst 10.4a. The release notes for these drivers along with a full list of changes for Catalyst 10.4 will be published when the company releases the WHQL-signed version later this month.

DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 10.4 Preview for Radeon HD 5000 Series

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40 Comments on AMD Releases Catalyst 10.4 Preview, Fixes Bad Company 2 Issue for Radeon HD5000 Users

#26
Marineborn
wow nice drivers only problem i encountered is it wont load up just cause 2 now, im reinstalling hopefully that will fix it, but the load times have gotten wicked fast about 5-9 seconds and bam son im capturing flags well all the usless snipers spawn on the other team and hide in there litlte hidey holes
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#28
OnBoard
jagdI think we can say now it is a game problem with DX11 cards than ati problem ,first reports started surfacing with nvidia gtx480s

forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/497033.page
Well sort of, but NVIDIA DX10 was fine, while ATI DX10 is still slow. 2-3 minutes though sounds really bad, didn't take nearly as long with 10.3 cat.

Might take a while to fix, not really that many DX11 NVIDIAs out there and all of them aren't playing BC2 either :)
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#29
douglatins
nice no more flickering, and 10 sec less loadings
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#30
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
loading takes me 1-2 minutes, running DX10.1 i assume.

That would be why nvidia dont load slow, they dont run 10.1 - they run 10.0
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#32
DEFEATEST
So this is a problem with the 5000 series cards and dx10 and dx 11? I run a 5870 on xp and the load times are pretty fast for me. Like 30 seconds. I always thought it was smoking fast compared to bf2.
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#33
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
DEFEATESTSo this is a problem with the 5000 series cards and dx10 and dx 11? I run a 5870 on xp and the load times are pretty fast for me. Like 30 seconds. I always thought it was smoking fast compared to bf2.
you run DX9 on a 5870? dear god, lol.



Its a game issue with DX10.1 and DX11. drivers can fix this issue somehow.
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#34
ArmoredCavalry
DEFEATESTSo this is a problem with the 5000 series cards and dx10 and dx 11? I run a 5870 on xp and the load times are pretty fast for me. Like 30 seconds. I always thought it was smoking fast compared to bf2.
Yeah, that is smoking fast compared to bf2, but w/ these drivers load times are reduced to <10 seconds.
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#35
Scrizz
they need to come out with the 4k version
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#36
DEFEATEST
Musselsyou run DX9 on a 5870? dear god, lol.



Its a game issue with DX10.1 and DX11. drivers can fix this issue somehow.
and whats so "lol" about running a 5870 on dx9?
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#37
TheMailMan78
Big Member
DEFEATESTand whats so "lol" about running a 5870 on dx9?
The point. You missed it.
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#38
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
DEFEATESTand whats so "lol" about running a 5870 on dx9?
the 2GB address space limit, the fact you have a DX11 card and can only use DX9.0C (skipping 10.0, 10.1 and 11 games)
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#39
DEFEATEST
Well aside from maybe Stalker expansions , I don't think I've missed much in the way of DX 10 or 11 gaming. I hope I'll be impressed by bad company dx 11....... I just got a windows 7 and looking forward to installing it. And as for 2gig space limits, my games all run just dandy @ 2560 X 1600 thank you!
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#40
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
Even under multiplayer? to me Gaming should be tested in Multiplayer mode as usually there is way more activity going on.
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