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Capt. Shark Bait
09-11-07, 02:42 AM
there's nothing in the release notes re: SH4 for XP

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx
rcjonessnp175
09-11-07, 07:05 AM
Ha u beat me to it. Ya was hoping thier be something in the release notes regarding sh4, well downloading now ill install and see if the sun is a sun on my x1300 woohoo!

:up::rock:
Capt. Shark Bait
09-11-07, 07:10 AM
don't bet on gettin any sun glare. i really think it's hardware related that last gen GPUs can't render it
SteamWake
09-11-07, 09:13 AM
Good lord already another update ?

There pushing these out like once a month or something.

Again in the meantime my card is working fine so I dont plan to fix it.
Capt. Shark Bait
09-11-07, 09:17 AM
like rabbits:rotfl:
Weather-guesser
09-11-07, 12:14 PM
If anyone was having trouble updating their x1300 card like I was with 7.8, ATI seems to have fixed the problem with 7.9. I noticed on ATI's website that the drivers in the search section for the x1300 were not listed as grouped with the x1550 like they were for 7.8 (when doing an update search they were grouped together ie x1300/x1550). Now they are listed seperately. Not sure if they had people downloading the wrong drivers or not with 7.8.

New versions always improve FPS slightly, so cant wait to test. :up:
Hitman
09-11-07, 01:10 PM
What do you guys think is better, these new drivers by ATI or my current Omega drivers 3.8.330? :hmm:
rcjonessnp175
09-11-07, 04:18 PM
Hey Hitman im going to ask a totally Noob question, but ur omega drivers, do they fix anything with the sun for the older ati cards. In regards to 7.9 i dont see a fps improvement on my boat.
Weather-guesser
09-11-07, 04:48 PM
In regards to 7.9 i dont see a fps improvement on my boat.

Bummer. There was a pretty good increase with 7.7. Cant wait for after work.
simonb1612
09-11-07, 08:06 PM
No mention of the SHIV issues in the section for Vista 32 either. Not even in the known issues section! Are these people listening to their customer base....
Hitman
09-12-07, 12:50 AM
Hey Hitman im going to ask a totally Noob question, but ur omega drivers, do they fix anything with the sun for the older ati cards. In regards to 7.9 i dont see a fps improvement on my boat.


Not AFAIK, they are just optimized drivers :hmm:
Swat
09-17-07, 11:54 PM
Donīt want to make a new thread....Can somebody tell me,please,why I have no sun glare on my new 8800GTX?Everything is working,but when I set AA,there's no glare at all.Thanks a lot.
Misfit138
09-18-07, 07:16 AM
Donīt want to make a new thread....Can somebody tell me,please,why I have no sun glare on my new 8800GTX?Everything is working,but when I set AA,there's no glare at all.Thanks a lot.

If you set the AA mode higher than 4x, you will loose the glare effects. Also checking Gamma Correction causes you to loose the glare effect
Swat
09-18-07, 07:22 AM
Thank you very much,sir!My last nVidia was 7800GTX so I've already forgotten a few things,but this was really helpful.Thank you once again....of course it's working....:rock:
XanderF
09-22-07, 09:44 PM
Donīt want to make a new thread....Can somebody tell me,please,why I have no sun glare on my new 8800GTX?Everything is working,but when I set AA,there's no glare at all.Thanks a lot.

If you set the AA mode higher than 4x, you will loose the glare effects. Also checking Gamma Correction causes you to loose the glare effect

Huh. Didn't know that about the 'gamma corrected' thing.

Well THAT explains a few things!

"Gamma-corrected" AA is considered a major feature, but it came at a slight performance hit. The Radeon X1K-series cards always have it enabled - you cannot disable it - which would explain the lack of AA on those cards! IE., a feature added to these cards to give them a quality advantage over their competitors turns out to be what breaks FSAA in Sh4? Now *that* is quality QA testing!
Misfit138
09-23-07, 07:21 AM
Huh. Didn't know that about the 'gamma corrected' thing.

Well THAT explains a few things!

"Gamma-corrected" AA is considered a major feature, but it came at a slight performance hit. The Radeon X1K-series cards always have it enabled - you cannot disable it - which would explain the lack of AA on those cards! IE., a feature added to these cards to give them a quality advantage over their competitors turns out to be what breaks FSAA in Sh4? Now *that* is quality QA testing!

I was trying to get this confirmed in the previous ATI Catalyst Drivers released thread from somebody. Didn't got it untill now but yeah, this would seem logical reason to lacking glare effect. But on another hand, that "Gamma correction" should be off when AA is set to off so why is the glare effects still broken?

Another thing is the amount of shimmering. For some reason just even with the basic settings, I'm able to reduce it more with Nvidia than with ATI
Hawk_345
09-23-07, 08:40 AM
last time one of these updates came out, i downloaded it, i think it was 7.7, and when i did what the instructions said, my computer got messed up, it kept restarting itself and i couldent run anything, ended up having to give to a guy at the store to reformat it put the basic stuff back on, now i have 6.14 driver that he put on, so i rather not take the chance again and download another update, just pay more money to get it fixed again if it messes up, when the one i have now works fine, if it auotupdated itself, would not be so bad. now maybe it was not the driver but a virus that came with it or before it in another download, i dont know.