Monday, July 21st 2008
AMD Releases ATI Catalyst 8.7 Graphics Driver Package
AMD released stable versions of the ATI Catalyst driver package for the Radeon series graphics accelerators. According to the release notes document (located here), improvements on both the features and performance fronts have been brought about. The drivers specific to your version of Windows, Linux, Windows on Macintosh (Bootcamp), Mac OS and on your model of Radeon accelerator can be found on the company website here.
Feature Improvements
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Feature Improvements
- This release of Catalyst introduces an enhancement to the Catalyst Control Center Information Center. Full Hardware information will be shown for each physical graphics accelerator installed in the system.
- This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces preview support for Ubuntu 8.04 ; SLED 10 sp2.
- 3DMark Vantage: Performance increases of up to 20% is noticed in the Performance Preset on single card configured systems when using ATI Radeon HD 36xx or ATI Radeon HD 34xx products.
- Company of Heroes DX10: Performance increases of 3% to 12% is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon HD 48xx, ATI Radeon HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon HD 36xx products.
- Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases of 4% to 15% is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon HD 48xx, ATI Radeon HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon HD 36xx product.
- Call Of Duty 4 DX9: Performance increases of up to 4% in specific maps is noticed on single card configured systems when using an ATI Radeon HD 48xx product.
- Lost Planet DX9: CrossFire scaling improves up to 1.7x and performance increases up to 80% across all Radeon products when AA and AF is enabled.
69 Comments on AMD Releases ATI Catalyst 8.7 Graphics Driver Package
On the other hand, going from 8.4 to 8.7 got me an extra 30 points on my 3850. lol.
But these are offical so it should be ok, shame that most of the performance boosts are for single cards and not crossfire, but you would think if a single card runs faster then crossfire would too....
Anyways I was having artifact issues in crysis so may as well try these to see if its fixed. Wish me luck :P
And yeah stay away from the 8.7 betas they are evil.
Edit: it already is tomorrow, lol
I'm only 403 marks off 10K in ePenis06 so if these drivers can give me any improvement I'll be happy.
Especially where it counts.... as in CoD 4 & Crysis!
Whatever the issue you are having I can say with all honesty your in the minority. Also if your having such a big problem why don't you start a thread like erocker suggested. We all like to help! :toast:
CRAP!
For all the aging AGP'ers.
"Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating
System"
...
"World In Conflict: Setting the video quality to high no longer results in corruption
being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number
737-35884"
So I guess that's an improvement :)
Or at least a sign that they used WiC in their test system on vista, which is where you'd use DX10.
So why don't you get them and try them.
3DMARK VANTAGE from P7460 tested wuth 8.6
to P10750 with first releas 8.7 that support crossfire perfect.
I think with the new 8.8 that comes out for the 4870X2 the performance goooo gooo :toast:
UPDATE... 00.13
Tested RACE GRID: 1680x1050 Ultra quality in all video setting : 4X antialiasing ... always during the race fix to 105fps WOWOWOW
go better than 8.7 OFFICIAL
3DMARK VANTAGE with 8.7 OFFICIAL P10750
With 8.7BETA P10955
205 point is very much :toast:
And another thing that i have noticed.. with 8.7 official there's the texture problem in the first 2 test 3d mark vantage, than with the 8.7BETA the test is perfect
:eek: Someone have tested this thing?????
Matteo
I've been running into a lot of game crashes since installing 8.7, even getting error messages from ATT that "ATI Tray Tools has run out of system resources." :wtf: :confused:
lock-ups, crashes, artifacting, GPU unresponsive requiring VPU recover to kick in . . .
even reflashed my cards back to stock speeds . . . still . . .
I'm gonna clean 8.7 off and throw 8.6 back on and see if anything changes; just wondering if I'm the only one with these issues . . .