Catalyst 7.7 released
 

Get them from the same old place

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Did some testing with my X1950XT and the sun glare is still missing. I'm gonna send email about this to ATI as soon as I'll get better. Fever is gone but still got pretty bad flu

Thanks. As soon as I get one driver set up and working great here comes another!

thanks
 

thank you for the heads up on this... off to install now :)

I was waiting for these drivers before ordering a new video card in order to give ATI one more chance to fix the outstanding issues. Looks like it's GeForce time.

I think the sun glare is a matter of taste as well as your choice of graphic cards. The sun doesn't REALLY look in the real world the way it's presented on GF screenshots I've seen. In terms of a photographic lens effect, the Sun can be made to look hundreds of different ways depending on the amount of light, speed of the film, lens chosen, exposure time, focus... I think the ATI presentation is more "realistic" (based on filtered telescope images I've seen) considering there's a limit to how bright my LCD can get and no one can buy a screen that can permanantly blind you in a few seconds.
I can play the game the way it is.

As far as the rapid release of several drivers recently. I always see this as indication there is a rush of popular games forcing the driver coders to fix a lot of small rendering issues on a game by game basis. The number or updates recently seems more rapid than I can remember in several years.
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Yeah, I kind of agree but the "disc effect" sure as hell don't look realistic either! I wouldn't mind if the sun would look like it looked in SH3. IMO, it was much better than the SH4 a bit overdone glare effect but gotta admit, it looks cool :p

Personally, I just would like to get more or less an official answer to this problem. Nowdays we have to pay bugged and unfinished games. Is it already the same with hardware?

Oops, forgot! It is!

You're going to have issues of one sort or another regardless of which card you buy.

As far as the rapid release of several drivers recently. I always see this as indication there is a rush of popular games forcing the driver coders to fix a lot of small rendering issues on a game by game basis. The number or updates recently seems more rapid than I can remember in several years.
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ATI releases their drivers once a month, quite regularly. Can't address NVidia, but there has been no unusual flurry of ATI drivers. :o