AMD Rushes Out Catalyst Rage Performance Driver

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10-04-2011, 06:18 AM
bro20000

AMD Rushes Out Catalyst Rage Performance Driver

Found this if anyone intrested!

AMD Rushes Out Catalyst Rage Performance Driver

AMD introduced a special BETA Catalyst driver for AMD Radeon graphics processors, that improves performance on the latest title from FPS pioneer id Software, Rage. Bluntly called the "Catalyst Rage Performance Driver", this driver has been rushed in by AMD to address performance issues. It provides "signifacant performance gains" for Rage in both single GPU and CrossFire configurations. The improvements are effective only on Radeon HD 5000 series and Radeon HD 6000 series graphics processors, and is available only for Windows 7.

Download here!
http://www.techpowerup.com/153064/AM...ce-Driver.html
10-04-2011, 06:40 AM
Mad1723

Well, the game is in a sorry state at the moment anyway. We'll need a few patches to officially call it a release... The drivers at least fix the crash at startup, but not the crash at the exit of the first door... Seriously, it stutters, textures pop everywhere and are meh, character are bland at best, shooting is ok, ambiance is ok, story is... nonexistent or close to it. A big skip from me, and I was expecting this game a lot :(
10-04-2011, 07:36 AM
jimbo75

I can't remember the last Bethesda game that wasn't in a total mess on release.
10-04-2011, 08:14 AM
deathman20

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Originally Posted by jimbo75

I can't remember the last Bethesda game that wasn't in a total mess on release.

There name is on the project, from what I thought they never even touched the game.
10-04-2011, 09:51 AM
EniGmA1987

Hmm. I played it and didnt notice any performance issues other than the texture pop stuff. Runs pretty smooth for me and no crashes. Catalyst 11.8 drivers
10-04-2011, 10:17 AM
hokiealumnus

****IMPORTANT****

The wrong Rage driver version was posted. Per my AMD contact it seems to have done more harm than good. A new version will be brought online very shortly. I will update when that happens. For now, avoid the beta driver!
10-04-2011, 10:52 AM
Kobaltrock

Quote:

Originally Posted by hokiealumnus

****IMPORTANT****

The wrong Rage driver version was posted. Per my AMD contact it seems to have done more harm than good. A new version will be brought online very shortly. I will update when that happens. For now, avoid the beta driver!

Just how could they make that mistake ?
:shakes:

Seems anyone that buys Rage will now be actually getting what they bought in spades.
10-04-2011, 12:24 PM
BababooeyHTJ

AMD's default OpenGl drivers blow. Seriously, every opengl source port that I've ever tried doesn't run anywhere near as well as it does with Nvidia hardware and its been like that for years. I have noticed this on Darkplaces, Qrack, eDuke32, and zDoom. It seems like any opengl title with out a profile just doesn't work properly. It really is something that AMD needs to work on.

Brink was a mess at launch too. AMD just isn't very good with OpenGL out of the box.
10-04-2011, 12:36 PM
SKYMTL

"Rushes out" is right. Members of the media quickly received a second email telling them NOT to use these drivers...
10-04-2011, 12:41 PM
M.Beier

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Originally Posted by SKYMTL

"Rushes out" is right. Members of the media quickly received a second email telling them NOT to use these drivers...

I didnt get shift from AMD' PR agency here^^
I think they are afraid of sending me emails as I respond "I still dont have a bulldozer, what are you going to do about it?"
10-04-2011, 02:14 PM
hokiealumnus

AMD says they've uploaded the real deal this time. Download it here: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...erfDriver.aspx
10-05-2011, 05:37 AM
PatRaceTin

hmmmmm if i not play that game should i DL this?
10-05-2011, 05:42 AM
zalbard

Quote:

Originally Posted by hokiealumnus

AMD says they've uploaded the real deal this time. Download it here: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...erfDriver.aspx

According to the reports on other forums, it performs very well and alleviates most of the problems. So should be recommended for all Rage players using AMD cards. :)
10-05-2011, 08:52 AM
Piotrsama

Quote:

Originally Posted by hokiealumnus

AMD says they've uploaded the real deal this time. Download it here: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...erfDriver.aspx

Can somebody update the first post with that link?
10-05-2011, 09:30 AM
Mechanical Man

Also it supports 4k series too...
10-05-2011, 10:21 AM
Lanek

I was thinking take this game shortly, but reading all that, i think i will wait a good month, and few patchs.
10-05-2011, 10:46 AM
deathman20

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Originally Posted by Piotrsama

Can somebody update the first post with that link?

The link in the first post is fine. They replaced the file, its roughly 1 meg larger then the old one so you can physically tell the difference in what you get.
10-05-2011, 10:47 AM
Hell Hound

Just give me Doom4.:alien:
10-05-2011, 01:53 PM
nn_step

Is it just me or does it appear that modern hardware and drivers just seem to be playing an ephemeral to the problems caused by poorly written software?
10-05-2011, 02:41 PM
zalbard

Quote:

Originally Posted by nn_step

Is it just me or does it appear that modern hardware and drivers just seem to be playing an ephemeral to the problems caused by poorly written software?

Unfortunately. A lot of software devs seem to think that their job is just pushing their product out, and it's consumer's and/or hardware manufacturer's job to get it running with acceptable performance.
10-06-2011, 04:03 AM
s1nykuL

Quote:

Originally Posted by nn_step

Is it just me or does it appear that modern hardware and drivers just seem to be playing an ephemeral to the problems caused by poorly written software?

Nope, not just you. There has always been issues with newly released games not running perfectly on some hardware configs. Having software run perfectly on the multitude of PC configs out there is not easy. Especially if coding outside of API's. However, since consoles surpassed the PC as the largest gaming platform things have gotten much much worse. I don't know if games devs port to PC by running the console code through some conversion software/system or they manually port the code but whatever they do it *is* done very poorly.

What's more, software development today is easy compared to 10 or so years ago with all the tools that actually write the code whilst the developer drags and drops objects. I learned 'C' a long time ago the Kernighan and Ritchie way using Vi on a Xenix system. Today developers learn to code with an IDE or RAD environment that fills in the blanks and offers up suggestions and I think too many developers rely on this approach to turn out bloated software with functionality that isn't always required according to an employers time frame. Job vacancies for software testers have all but vanished in the UK over the past ten years too, perhaps this sheds some light on the quality of released code.
10-06-2011, 04:55 AM
FischOderAal

Quote:

Originally Posted by zalbard

Unfortunately. A lot of software devs seem to think that their job is just pushing their product out, and it's consumer's and/or hardware manufacturer's job to get it running with acceptable performance.

This is true to most fields of work. Nobody wants or can do a good job anymore. So all they do is "get the job done".