ATI 4.12 Video Drivers & NFSU2

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Anyone with an ATI Radeon card try the new 4.12 drivers with Need For Speed:
Underground 2? Any performance boost or problems?

Steve
 
That was useful.

Q: "Anyone know if HL2 will work on my AMD CPU???"
A: "Buy an Intel. They are more gooder."

sheesh
 
Alex Devlin said:
Try Omega's drivers for ATI www.omegadrivers.net
Written for performance without all the bloat of ATI's drivers.
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Oh yeah, Omega is the savior, Omega is the solution
for everything. Hallelujah!

Ahem. But I've always had the complete opposite feeling,
Omegas felt too much of a bloat compared to pure ATI-
drivers (and meaning the control panel-version here).

Not to mention that I noticed zero difference in performance
and visual quality, so have you Omega-fans actually
benchmarked the drivers in practical gaming? Or are the
differences noticeable only with the high-end cards like
X800 etc.?
 
Oh yeah, Omega is the savior, Omega is the solution
for everything. Hallelujah!

Ahem. But I've always had the complete opposite feeling,
Omegas felt too much of a bloat compared to pure ATI-
drivers (and meaning the control panel-version here).

Not to mention that I noticed zero difference in performance
and visual quality, so have you Omega-fans actually
benchmarked the drivers in practical gaming? Or are the
differences noticeable only with the high-end cards like
X800 etc.?
Click to expand...

Not saying that Omega drivers are the saviours. I tried them and my games
run faster. The OP wanted to know if there was a performance increase
with the new ATI drivers. I noticed no increase at all with the new ATI
ones but did notice the omega ones were (slightly) faster.

If you don't want to use them then don't use them. Not everyone has heard
of them and with some machines they do give a speed increase.

I run a 9600XT, P42.8E, 1024MB ram and theres a performance increase on
mine.
 
Aki Peltola said:
Oh yeah, Omega is the savior, Omega is the solution
for everything. Hallelujah!

Ahem. But I've always had the complete opposite feeling,
Omegas felt too much of a bloat compared to pure ATI-
drivers (and meaning the control panel-version here).

Not to mention that I noticed zero difference in performance
and visual quality, so have you Omega-fans actually
benchmarked the drivers in practical gaming? Or are the
differences noticeable only with the high-end cards like
X800 etc.?
Click to expand...

When the ATI 4.10s were out I used those for a while before migrating to
omega' sdrivers (which were based upon 4.10b) and I noticed an increase of
10fps in Doom 3 using the timedemo feature. That's a significant increase,
don't you say? I'm using a 9800 Pro 128MB.

I've been using Omega Drivers since, so can't really compare them to the
latest ATI ones. However, I'm confident that they're better or at least
equal.
 
Ikaros said:
Anyone with an ATI Radeon card try the new 4.12 drivers with Need For
Speed: Underground 2? Any performance boost or problems?

Steve
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Nobody knows the answer to your question.

But you did start an ATI/Omega argument! <g>
 
I always wondered which CPU was goodest ;^)
That was useful.

Q: "Anyone know if HL2 will work on my AMD CPU???"
A: "Buy an Intel. They are more gooder."

sheesh
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-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)
 
The Berzerker said:
When the ATI 4.10s were out I used those for a while before migrating to
omega' sdrivers (which were based upon 4.10b) and I noticed an increase of
10fps in Doom 3 using the timedemo feature. That's a significant increase,
don't you say? I'm using a 9800 Pro 128MB.
Click to expand...

Well yes, that's quite a nice boost. I'd be happy to get
even 5fps gain, but I guess the lower-end cards like
9600pro aren't that good of a benefitters what comes
to driver tweaks.
 
Yep - I'm running 4.12 Catalyst on an ATI 9800Pro up top of an AMD 1800 and
everything is hunky-dorey.

Forgive me, but, I think that a lot of people's problems with NFSU2 is down
to a not-as-god-as-perfection setup rather than the game itself. I'm running
at 1024x768 on my old AMD1800 and the game, by 'n' large is excellent.

Sorry(?)
Skot.
 
Actually, I just re-read this post.

I'm perhaps being a bit blasé but NFSU2 runs real well on my AMD1800. I do
honestly think that this must be down to the **cleanliness** of the system
(anti-flame: Y'all know what I mean).

It may seem like preaching to the converted but
Run Task Manager - is any process taking more than 5% CPU? If so, figure
out why...
While in Task Manager, check Performance / Commit Charge / Total

if that figure is > 75% of your physical memory then you're out of memory
(insert full-stop here)

Buy more RAM
or
Run ad-aware and check that secret smelly sh*tty people aren't stealing
your CPU cycles.

In a nutshell; I can run NFSU2 on an AMD1800 with 756MB RAM with no probs.
Cheers,
Scott.
 
My system is an Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1.7ghz, 768mb DDR RAM, ATI Radeon 9500
Pro 128mb, Windows XP SP2.
I'm up to date with all Windows Updates and hardware drivers. Running ATI
4.11 Cats right now. I run Ad-Aware several times a week and my system is
clean. BTW, I've been a PC Tech since 1985 by profession.

Anyway, I didn't say I had any performance problems with NFSU2. It runs well
at 1024x768 using AA and most detail settings turned up.

I am a bit leary about installing the 4.12 Cats because when I tried the
4.12beta drivers, the 3D games I play - NFSU, NFSU2, UT2004 - all had
graphics corruption in the game menus, etc. Even when I uninstalled the
betas using the Cat Uninstaller program, it still left older ATI drivers on
my system and re-installing the 4.11s wouldn't fix it, until I had to use
Windows Search to find and delete any 2004 ATI files dated before the August
time frame to play it safe. For some reason the Cat Uninstaller didn't
remove them. After doing this manual removal process I was able to put back
the 4.11 drivers and everything worked again.

Steve
 
Ikaros said:
Anyone with an ATI Radeon card try the new 4.12 drivers with Need For Speed:
Underground 2? Any performance boost or problems?
Click to expand...

Just installed the Cat4.12's, no improvement at all that I noticed, with
my Radeon 9800AIW
But no problems either, so I'll probably keep using them..


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