Catalyst 4.9

[ailevation]

:thumbs: Get em... either with Catalyst Control Center or the regular old control panel.

As with most CATALYST™ releases performance has increased in various situations. The following performance gains are noticedoom3 performance improves 10-15% on ATI RADEON™ X800 XT products when anti-aliasing is enabled.

UT2004 performance improves considerably on the ATI RADEON™ 9500 PRO, RADEON™ 9700 PRO RADEON™ 9800 PRO and RADEON™ 9800 XT products. The benefit can be 25% or more in some circumstances, particularly at extreme graphics settings such as 6xAA + 16xAF.

Wow.

 

[ComradeBadger]

Pity my card still isn't supported.

gg ATi

 

[Shuzer]

Pity my card still isn't supported.

gg ATi

Mobility, I'd imagine?

er.. wait, you have a 9800SE..

 

[Murray_H]

http://www.ati.com/products/catalystcontrolcenter/index.html

Link for it

 

[Icarusintel]

I wish they supported mobility.... i'm stuck getting drivers from alienware or omega and both are always behind

 

[lePobz]

Got the new Catalyst Control Centre, that's pretty funky - don't think i'll get 4.9s till my X800 XT Plat. gets here tho.

Speaking of which... Where the hell is it?!?!?! ;(

 

[Shuzer]

I wish they supported mobility.... i'm stuck getting drivers from alienware or omega and both are always behind

www.dna-drivers.nl

Ahead of the curve, even. And way better than Omega

 

[Icarusintel]

awesome, thanks

 

[Letters]

I use the dhmodtool to patch ATI's drivers for mobility.

 

[nw909]

Do I need to install SP2?

Whats this .net Framework 1.1 that I must have?

 

[B.Calhoun]

Ok so before i mess up this installation like i do with alot of drivers...How exactly should i uninstall 4.8?

 

[SidewinderX]

well, for ya'll convinice, i'll run some ut2k4 benchmarks, before and after

will post here later with them

 

[The Dark Elf]

Do I need to install SP2?

Whats this .net Framework 1.1 that I must have?

.net is a horrible bloated thing MS users are slowly being forced to have to make software run.. It sucks, bring back the good old days of Basic ffs

 

[Shuzer]

The CCC isn't worth it.. lol, it's really really slow and eats up alot of resources when running, pointless in the end. The promise of "built in overclocking" only works for the XT cards, as usual. Nothing new, just a live view of the changes you have made to the display settings (ie. FSAA).

 

[Gunner]

Gonna have to run some more benchmarks hehe

 

[Gajdycz]

my ati ccc went away, may have to reinstall

 

[SidewinderX]

well, after running some benchmarks, I can tell you that the improvments they mentioned are most definitly only for the cards the mentioned.

I have a 9600pro, not listed as one that will see improvments, and it diddn't

Cats 4.8
1600x1200 noAA noAF
FB-92.12fps
BM-63.46fps

1600x1200 6xAA 16xAF
FB-42.78fps
BM-23.27fps

Cats 4.9
1600x1200 noAA noAF
FB-95.59fps
BM-63.31fps

1600x1200 6xAA 16xAF
FB-42.02fps
BM-23.91fps


All of these fall WELL within the +/- 3fps margin of error, due to differences in each run.


so if you're card isn't on the list don't expect anything

 

[iamaelephant]

Even if your card is on the list don't expect too much. I have a 9800 pro, here are the benches:

Holy shit settings, 1024x768
ONS_Dria Timedemo

Catalyst 4.8
No AA/AF - 44.5 fps
6xAA/16xAF - 28.0 fps

Catalyst 4.9
No AA/AF - 44.1 fps
6xAA/16xAF - 33.0 fps

ONS_Dria is a very taxing timedemo though, maybe if I can be bothered I'll do another bench on a more realistic demo.

Edit - don't know how much difference it makes, but mine is a MSI 9800 pro 128mb with an R360 core. My computer recognises it as a 9800 xt.

 

[Kyorisu]

The CCC isn't worth it.. lol, it's really really slow and eats up alot of resources when running, pointless in the end. The promise of "built in overclocking" only works for the XT cards, as usual. Nothing new, just a live view of the changes you have made to the display settings (ie. FSAA).

Saved me from downloading 20mb which takes roughly an hour.

 

[The Terminator]

So, maybe ATI is doing something new with its drivers now, since the relase of the CCC and their next release is Catalyst 5.0, maybe a large step up with those? Big OpenGL work maybe? We will see.

 

[SidewinderX]

nah, probalby 4.10. there were cats 3.10

 

[Cole]

5.0 sounds cooler

 

[Maxi]

So I shouldn't d/l these if i've got a 9700 pro?

 

[ComradeBadger]

So, maybe ATI is doing something new with its drivers now, since the relase of the CCC and their next release is Catalyst 5.0, maybe a large step up with those? Big OpenGL work maybe? We will see.

According to *snip* then *snip* OpenGL *snip

Wait for the ATi interview :E

 

[destrukt]

I isntalled 4.9 yesterday and I got over 10fps+ in the Source Stress Test (so about 83 to 95).

Though in 3dMark03 I didn't notice any big change.

nb: i have 9800 xt.

 

[ailevation]

It's either my video card or drivers man... ever since I installed the 4.9's I notice quite a ****in drop in performance! Moh:AA used to never drop anything below 100 FPS, and the drops now aren't marginal either we're talking 40 FPS in some area MAN! CS:S I actually can hit the 30's in FPS NOW! Before I would get 50-60 and 40's rarely. I am going to try a rollback to 4.8's see what happens.

 

[Shuzer]

So, maybe ATI is doing something new with its drivers now, since the relase of the CCC and their next release is Catalyst 5.0, maybe a large step up with those? Big OpenGL work maybe? We will see.

The points are version numbers, they're dates. It'll go up to 4.11, then reset to 5.0. That is, if they're on schedule. It's fluxuated over the years, but, it should theoretically reach up to .11 at max.

 

[Dead-Inside]

So I shouldn't d/l these if i've got a 9700 pro?

Yes you should. Just because it doesn't improve performance for cards "not listed" it does add more support and stability. Having the laters drivers is usually best. When working with nVidia though (My old GeForce card) that wasn't always the case.

But right now I say go for it

 

[oMarKs]

Does anyone else have any problems running the CCC? Mine gets a non-descript error when I try to run it. (winxp no sp2)

 

[Axyon]

Does anyone else have any problems running the CCC? Mine gets a non-descript error when I try to run it. (winxp no sp2)

Yup, I get 'The application failed to initialize' error.

 

[Jackal hit]

hah i get that error too. but then, if it uses lots of system resources, and isn't all that great anyways, i might as well uninstall, yes?

 

[oMarKs]

Glad it's not just my computer then. Guess it may as well be uninstalled yeh.