AMD Releases ATI Catalyst 10.8 WHQL Software Suite

[Crazykenny]

Runs great on a 480, the way it's meant to be played.

Sure if you dont mind a 4 gigawatt heat furnace sitting in your PC, that costs a fortune. I rather stick to the red side untill Nvidia has corrected its mistakes.

Damn I loved the 8, 9 and some of the 200 series. But there latest cards are just below standard. Atleast, not the quality I am used to from Nvidia. Heat and powerconsumption do mind, thank you very much.

 

[Gzero]

I just install with out uninstalling. But out of habit restart the pc before playing any games even though I'm not prompted to.

 

[Gzero]

Sure if you dont mind a 4 gigawatt heat furnace sitting in your PC, that costs a fortune. I rather stick to the red side untill Nvidia has corrected its mistakes.

Damn I loved the 8, 9 and some of the 200 series. But there latest cards are just below standard. Atleast, not the quality I am used to from Nvidia. Heat and powerconsumption do mind, thank you very much.

Hehe, just my hands on a 8800 GTX, and your saying that Nvidia never made a mistake in this series

Looking forward to the leccey bill with 2 pc's running last gen high end hw.

 

[Crazykenny]

Hehe, just my hands on a 8800 GTX, and your saying that Nvidia never made a mistake in this series

Looking forward to the leccey bill with 2 pc's running last gen high end hw.

I dont see someone baking a GTX480 back to life, thats just ingenious engineering Still, the 8800 series where ground breaking at there time. Whilest the 480 doesnt really break anything major, atleast not by a longshot.

I mean, what did ATI throw at the 8800 series? HD2000 series right?

 

[wolf]

...I rather stick to the red side untill Nvidia has corrected its mistakes.

GF104, nuf' said.

 

[brandonwh64]

GF104, nuf' said.

GF104 is OK but not ground breaking.

 

[Delta6326]

just installed. i now have to find the overscan feature because my screen is not full ;(
EDIT; fixed that. im now going to test SC2

 

[Steevo]

I like the overscan feature, some of the many monitors don't auto adjust for crap, and their scaling is not right either but using the GPU to perform it looks just as good as a native unscaled image.

 

[wolf]

GF104 is OK but not ground breaking.

well IMO it corrected the mistakes in GF100, maybe not ground breaking but a massive step in the right direction.

however this isn't the thread for this discussion either...

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

In contrast to the last few ati driver threads I don't see a complaint in every post, but I also don't see anyone saying it's fixed issues they had with the last 3-4 drivers. Should I recommend this to my friend with a 5850 or not?

 

[Glocko]

SC2 finally works in crossfire for me no more flickering! Other than that it seems like a solid release thus far.

 

[pantherx12]

You should always recommend new drivers, it always pay to try them out.

After all even if people were complaining it doesn't mean to say the drivers won't work for you.

For example I've had no issues what so ever since 9.8 : ] Yet some people have been having problems driver after driver.

 

[Delta6326]

so far after testing with SC2 the only problem i have found is that........ i suck at this game and died in less than 7min versus ai normal mode but hey it was my first time to play

 

[dj-electric]

the driver is OK... thats all... :{

 

[Bobington]

I got a bone to pick with W1zzard concerning the new 10.8 drivers.

On page 7 it says the following:

Shifting mouse cursor between displays no longer causes intermittent cursor
corruption or system lock up

I purchased a 5870 based on the reviews posted on TPU and other sites and at the time no review contained any warnings about lock ups or faulty drivers. Given that most people who would purchase a $400 GPU will more than likely be using 2 monitors it seems extremely relevant to inform them that if they use 2 monitors the cursor will become corrupted and your system will crash.

Meanwhile, before 10.5 it was impossible to overclock using multiple monitors without the screens starting to flicker. Something that seems very hard for reviewers to not have noticed given that they all overclock the cards and these cards are designed for use with 3 monitors.

I'm happy that these issues have finally been resolved but it would have been nice to have been told about them BEFORE we made the purchase and it should not have taken almost a year for these issues to be acknowledged by ATI and be fixed.

I hope reviewers do a better job informing consumers of the next generation of video cards.

 

[AphexDreamer]

I got a bone to pick with W1zzard concerning the new 10.8 drivers.

On page 7 it says the following:


I purchased a 5870 based on the reviews posted on TPU and other sites and at the time no review contained any warnings about lock ups or faulty drivers. Given that most people who would purchase a $400 GPU will more than likely be using 2 monitors it seems extremely relevant to inform them that if they use 2 monitors the cursor will become corrupted and your system will crash.

Meanwhile, before 10.5 it was impossible to overclock using multiple monitors without the screens starting to flicker. Something that seems very hard for reviewers to not have noticed given that they all overclock the cards and these cards are designed for use with 3 monitors.

I'm happy that these issues have finally been resolved but it would have been nice to have been told about them BEFORE we made the purchase and it should not have taken almost a year for these issues to be acknowledged by ATI and be fixed.

I hope reviewers do a better job informing consumers of the next generation of video cards.

I don't think in any of the 5870 reviews he claims to have tested the cards with Eyeinfinty thus he shouldn't be blamed for something he didn't test and the reader can only assume what the performance regarding that would be like. If he did have results with Eyeinfinty it was strictly game performance, its a hardware review not a driver review. If a crash occurred I'm sure he would have mentioned it.

Also if you bought the card and weren't happy with it nothing was stopping you from returning it.

 

[pantherx12]

I don't think in any of the 5870 reviews he claims to have tested the cards with Eyeinfinty thus he shouldn't be blamed for something he didn't test and the reader can only assume what the performance regarding that would be like. If he did have results with Eyeinfinty it was strictly game performance, its a hardware review not a driver review. If a crash occurred I'm sure he would have mentioned it.

Also if you bought the card and weren't happy with it nothing was stopping you from returning it.

He probably should review all the features of a card though eh?

After all its not just frame rates we buy cards for.

 

[AphexDreamer]

He probably should review all the features of a card though eh?

After all its not just frame rates we buy cards for.

Yeah don't get me wrong that would be great if he added it but since he hadn't, people should do research else were if they plan to use that like read forums to find out issues if any. Of course driver issues will vary from PC to PC so he might not have had any Eyeinfinty issues anyways and still get blamed for it even if he did add it. Review was obviously for 1 monitor solutions, people looking for an eyeinfinty review should read one.

 

[Super XP]

Nice, can't wait to try these out.

 

[pantherx12]

Yeah don't get me wrong that would be great if he added it but since he hadn't, people should do research else were if they plan to use that like read forums to find out issues if any. Of course driver issues will vary from PC to PC so he might not have had any Eyeinfinty issues anyways and still get blamed for it even if he did add it. Review was obviously for 1 monitor solutions, people looking for an eyeinfinty review should read one.

Aye true, always pays to check forums for info about things I find.

That's the place to find issues and bugs with things.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

I'd imagine at least some of the reasons why driver bugs are missed by reviewers is because a portion of driver bugs result from differing driver installation methods. Many reviewers do tests on a fresh install or totally erase the drivers before installing new ones.

Aside from that I'd blame it on limited time with a product. For a site to uncover the monitor issue it would have needed to combine an eyefinity review with the main review and they would have had to be one of the few sites that includes the overclock results in all benchmarks. Few sites do that, and most eyefinity reviews were done a good while after the initial release reviews.

 

[Bobington]

I'd imagine at least some of the reasons why driver bugs are missed by reviewers is because a portion of driver bugs result from differing driver installation methods. Many reviewers do tests on a fresh install or totally erase the drivers before installing new ones.

Aside from that I'd blame it on limited time with a product. For a site to uncover the monitor issue it would have needed to combine an eyefinity review with the main review and they would have had to be one of the few sites that includes the overclock results in all benchmarks. Few sites do that, and most eyefinity reviews were done a good while after the initial release reviews.

I'm guessing my post was confusing from the replies, the cursor bug doesnt happen only in Eyefinity rigs but in all multi-monitor configurations. Assuming the reviewer was using Windows 7 and 2+ monitors he would have run into the bug.

 

[erocker]

Thing is there are eyefinity reviews out there (Hardforum I know for sure) that don't have these issues. At least they don't claim to have them.

 

[Steevo]

I got a bone to pick with W1zzard concerning the new 10.8 drivers.

On page 7 it says the following:


I purchased a 5870 based on the reviews posted on TPU and other sites and at the time no review contained any warnings about lock ups or faulty drivers. Given that most people who would purchase a $400 GPU will more than likely be using 2 monitors it seems extremely relevant to inform them that if they use 2 monitors the cursor will become corrupted and your system will crash.

Meanwhile, before 10.5 it was impossible to overclock using multiple monitors without the screens starting to flicker. Something that seems very hard for reviewers to not have noticed given that they all overclock the cards and these cards are designed for use with 3 monitors.

I'm happy that these issues have finally been resolved but it would have been nice to have been told about them BEFORE we made the purchase and it should not have taken almost a year for these issues to be acknowledged by ATI and be fixed.

I hope reviewers do a better job informing consumers of the next generation of video cards.

I have never had that issue and run my monitor and a 46" TV in the other room, playing games while my wife watches netflix on it.


So, perhaps you should review any crap software or other PC issues you have before blaming W1zz, or the drivers/card. In short, your troll post is a troll post. Go troll elsewhere. Or here is a idea, make a thread of your very own so you can get help.

 

[pantherx12]

Criticism is not trolling, also though he specifically mentions wizard he clearly states "and other reviews" he's about as troll like as I am a sexy blonde woman.

Seriously I left for a bit because of how badly everyone takes something negatively : /