ATi cat7.9 is out

[Weather-guesser]

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.

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]

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]

Don´t 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]

Originally Posted by Swat

Don´t 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]

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....

[XanderF]

Originally Posted by Misfit138

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]

Originally Posted by XanderF

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