5.6's out

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Well, installed it myself, too (the control panel version). Zero performance
improvements, but it did fix the stupid "coupled" AA/aniso settings between
OpenGL and D3D.

There's an "WMV acceleration" checkbox. Anyone noticed smoother framerates
or lower CPU utilization with WMV9 videos?
 
First of One said:
Well, installed it myself, too (the control panel version). Zero
performance improvements, but it did fix the stupid "coupled" AA/aniso
settings between OpenGL and D3D.

There's an "WMV acceleration" checkbox. Anyone noticed smoother framerates
or lower CPU utilization with WMV9 videos?
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nope, nothing like that... MP10 utilising ~40% CPU since ever (for me)
 
Steve K said:
nope, nothing like that... MP10 utilising ~40% CPU since ever (for me)
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On which card? From what I've read, acceleration is
supported only on certain cards, and requires a patch
from Microsoft.
 
Rick said:
On which card? From what I've read, acceleration is
supported only on certain cards, and requires a patch
from Microsoft.
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my Ati 9600 Pro is supposed to support wmv - I installed the patch files.
 
Bratboy said:
Just an FYI that ATI has em out this AM
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The 5.6's were no good for me performance wise.
3Dmark2001SE dropped from 17800 to 16800 (about a 5.5% drop)
3Dmark03 dropped only a fraction - about 50 marks (3970 to 3920)
3Dmark05 went up by a fraction - from 2350 to almost 2400
Aquamark went up by about 1000 marks (from 45.5k to 46.5k)
Doom3 stayed almost exactly the same
No noticable change in HL2

So back to the 4.12's for me.

9800 Pro, P4-3Ghz HT, 1Gb 3200 Dual Channel enabled, AGP8X, Fastwrites
off, VPU Recover off, Catalyst AI enabled via ATITool, PCI Latency set
to 64 by ATI Tool (tried without AI and with standard PCI latency of 255
- still the 5.6's were slower)

Bit of a pity, seems that 4.12 are the best set of drivers for me.
 
This is for WMV9 high-resolution videos? That's pretty good. Windows Media
Player 9 shoots to 100% CPU utilization when I tried to view those Xbox 360
game trailers (1280x720).
 
#Well, my results weren't all that impressive. I did see an increase in every
#game tested (using BenchEmAll) but it was only by a few FPS. My system specs
#are:
....
#ATi 9500 Pro, BIOS modded to 9700 speed

Considering the, uh, maturity of your video card, you should be happy
to still be getting a boost, however small, from a new driver release.

Those few FPS might have achieved a playability threshold in these games
at higher resolutions, given the results you posted.

I'm right with you on CoD, the benchmark differences really doesn't
matter any more.

Ken.
 
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