ATi 7.5 driver released

[Capt. Shark Bait]

gonna let yas know how well it is with SH4, tho i doubt ther'll ber much difference:-?

[MONOLITH]

Thanks for the news.

I'll be refueling my X1950 Pro. :up:

I haven't checked the release notes yet, but I've my fingers crossed that maybe they fixed the "no bloom sunsets on SH4" thing.

[Jace11]

Hmm, will give it a miss..

I have an ATI X1900 Crossfire with an ATI X1900XTX, linked together with the dreaded dongle - which caused interference on my old CRT monitor so I switched to a nice 1600 Dell LCD screen.

I currently run SH4 in crossfire, with 14x Antialias, 4X Anisotropic filtering, V sync, higest quality mip map, and all features turned on the game (except damage model graphics - causes flicker) at 1600x1200 res...

It is sweet...

But I can only get this setup to work with ATI Catalyst 7.1. When I tried later versions the Antialiasing with crossfire didn't work. It was fine when using a single card, but not when using two.

So I'm staying with 7.1, just one of those quirky driver things I guess..

[MONOLITH]

with 14x Antialias

Holy crap. I didn't know AA went that high. I've never seen an option higher than 6x.

[Steel_Tomb]

IIRC if you enable the "temporal AA" thing it doubles the AA value, therefore 4x becomes 8x and 6 becomes 12x, but I still dont know how to get 14x lol. Could you enlighten us on this.

[Jace11]

I don't know... isn't it called super-sampling or something...

I can only select up to 6x or maybe 8x when using 1 card, I think the two cards take different samples and composite them together in the higher modes - I read up on it when I was looking at which cards to buy 18 months ago.

but as ever, there is some new AA technique out now isn't there? CAA or something it's called, can't remember. I tried temporal but I prefered the normal method..

Anyway, I don't know how it works, I just press the buttons...

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6595/untitled2ty4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[SinisterDexter]

Thanks for the news.

I'll be refueling my X1950 Pro. :up:

I haven't checked the release notes yet, but I've my fingers crossed that maybe they fixed the "no bloom sunsets on SH4" thing.
Likewise for the 3d clocks / overdrive.
Will test shortly...

[bunkerratt]

overdrive is working ....havn't had a go with sh4 yet for bloom but overdrive is running i'm running 2x atix1950's in crossfire on an asus p5wdh deluxe

[SinisterDexter]

overdrive is working ....havn't had a go with sh4 yet for bloom but overdrive is running i'm running 2x atix1950's in crossfire on an asus p5wdh deluxe
Not here -
Single x1900xtx on A8N32-SLI Deluxe w/ WinXP and Catalyst 7.5
Card does not switch to 3d clocks for SHIV.:cry:
Bloom does not seem to be enabled.:cry:
Still can force 3d clock speeds with ATITool...

[MONOLITH]

ATI Tray Tools rocks.

I was skeptical about dumping my pretty and flashy CCC. But I found the ability to set up individual profiles for each game to be much more reliable with the ATT, as well as the overclocking tools.

I doubt I'll be going back to the CCC.

[Capt. Shark Bait]

seems they've done nothing about the sun:nope: ; still a disc but with a "glow" around it:-?

[GnarPow]

14x seems like an odd #

[SteamWake]

14x seems like an odd #

No thats an even number....

Lets get some progress reports here. I avoided the last update (7.4) as I had heard some people were having some issues.

Now I hear 7.5 is already out... Ill wait till I hear some positive things.

BTW overdrive does not work in 7.3 either.

[bunkerratt]

so far it looks good ..no bloom bummer........all options are open aa w/temporal =24 af with hg =32 ran 3d mark 06 last night and this morning ...w/stock clocks it had an avarage 4-6 point gain over the 7.4 runs...ok by me ..and overdrive is working ..no more flicker when you try to run overdrive :|\\

[Marko_Ramius]

X14 AA is certainly only available for CrossFire user, i guess.


The bloom of the sun is still not fixed ? ---> :damn: Grrrr... When they will do it ?


I have 7.3 and 3d clock works with SH4 ( with overdrive and Ati Tray Tool), really don't understand why some have problem with this :hmm:


Still waiting good news about this 7.5 for using it.

[Weather-guesser]

I'm afraid of installing with all the messing aroung I had to do with my settings. I think I'll wait for 1.3:-?

[kriller2]

:damn: :damn: I just tried the new catalyst driver 7.5 now I cant force AA in SH4!! on my powercolor radeon x1950pro goiing back to 7.3. :cool: