Cat. 8.8 Vs. 8.9beta

"there a small performance boost in Crysis. We want know, in which configurations (without AA) Crysis boost up.
We benched with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (OC on 3.4 GHz), 4GB DDR2-800 MHz Ram and a ATi Radeon 4850 (OC on 700 MHz/1125 MHz). The system runs under Microsoft Windows Vista 64bit.
Our benchmars show, that the fps-average in Crysis growth up to 10% in the setting "very high". In other settings was no difference.
Our results are from Crysis Benchmark Tool."

source; http://www.ati-forum.de/allgemein/ne...arks/#post5576

light review of betas; http://www.ati-forum.de/allgemein/ne...te-benchmarks/

download drivers here; vista x86/64 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OV07MYYQ

xp x86/64 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SNHWHC6G

Hmm. That seems like it would be within the error of margin/run-to-run variance. I'd need to see averaged results of 5 runs on both drivers.

they are running on an AMD5600, regardless that its OC'd, intel users should see a bigger gain.

Even if Intel users would see a greater gain, these scores would still be well within the margin of error.

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Even if Intel users would see a greater gain, these scores would still be well within the margin of error.

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Not to mention that in this context 1 FPS is about 3%. If the gains are less than that, the fact that they're rounding to whole FPS is killing the accuracy as well.

This might mean something if anyone actually cared about Crysis.

Single GPU only.. hmm.

I have an idea!
It's such a great idea that I am thinking about patenting it.

Let's stop talking about Crysis

It's old, not that much fun, not that pretty, and still runs like apecrap.
Let's just close this dark chapter in the history of gaming once and for all.

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I have an idea!
It's such a great idea that I am thinking about patenting it.

Let's stop talking about Crysis

It's old, not that much fun, not that pretty, and still runs like apecrap.
Let's just close this dark chapter in the history of gaming once and for all.

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True, and I already patented that.

Thats YOUR opinion. I like the game, it was fun to play in my opinion and the game engine isn't 'badly coded' if it runs like crap on current gen hardware - the sheer power and versatility of CryEngine 2 will be handy for future games. Doom III ran like crap on anything but a GeForce 6800 GT when it was released, but no-one called Doom III badly coded, did they?

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Originally Posted by Miss Banana

I have an idea!
It's such a great idea that I am thinking about patenting it.

Let's stop talking about Crysis

It's old, not that much fun, not that pretty, and still runs like apecrap.
Let's just close this dark chapter in the history of gaming once and for all.

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rofl... when people stop hating crysis and realize that it is the most demanding game released till now, if the card can handel that game it can play anything. And this game just looks amazing @ very high nothing can touch it, not UT3, not COD4, nothing, period.

Even crysis:warhead is less demanding then crysis, cause ea decided to dump very high and declare high the new maximum.

Everyone said the same about CryEngine 1, and where is it now?
May I also bring to your attention that ID Tech 4 was not as succesful as the hype around it would suggest. Only ID + affiliates use it.

I wonder if these will fix other issues.

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Everyone said the same about CryEngine 1, and where is it now?
May I also bring to your attention that ID Tech 4 was not as succesful as the hype around it would suggest. Only ID + affiliates use it.

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noo one said anything about using, i said its a very good bar for every graphics card and the most advance engien on the market, if a card can run crysis it can run every other game out ther, peroid you cant denie that.

Also engien licensing isn't that popular anymore, just look how many development studies (even small ones) make there own game engien, rather then liecensing popular engiens.

Lets see, what used the iDtech4 engine...

Doom III & Expansion Packs
Quake 4
Prey
ET:QW
Wolfenstein - this year, so its not done yet.

CryEngine 2 isn't just being used for Crysis either, it'll be used on several upcoming titles, too.

I got them installed ... the first gpu is still at 750 at boot up but runing a fullscreen 3d app clocks it back down to 507

Does those drivers fix the damn "blank screen after install" bug, where you get no image with some video cards...? I tried to install my Home Premium 64 Bits, but I always get that bug, so I'm stuck on XP for now :(

well with after everytime I install the ATI the screen goes black for a few minutes and then it works fine for me.

Some users have been reporting that issue. I've got it too. It's ok, until I restart Vista... then, I get a black screen... I hear Vista's sound, but no image at all :( Rig is in my sig :) I will go check Ati forums to see :)

you might want to reinstall vista. I have a few vista installs and it didn't do this except for one time and I manually reboot the system and all was fine.

I reinstalled many times my Vista, tried to install them alone, without anything else, and no reports yet of any fix for this problem. I tried your solution too, nothing fixed it :(

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I reinstalled many times my Vista, tried to install them alone, without anything else, and no reports yet of any fix for this problem. I tried your solution too, nothing fixed it :(

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what monitor are you running? you might need a driver for it or a bios update for your motherboard. Is there anything in common with all the system having the problem?

i want to see crossfire results, single card performance has been good but it seems ati forgot some people use 2 cards at once...

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what monitor are you running? you might need a driver for it or a bios update for your motherboard. Is there anything in common with all the system having the problem?

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Nope, I have that randomly too, but most often when having more than one monitor installed. I simply go do something else for a bit, then come back and use the power button to have Vista shut down, and on reboot all is well.:shrug:

There is a thing in common with many systems, but not all. They are 64 bits systems. But the other problem is that this issue has appeared at the X700/X800 time. It's a known bug... :(

both camps are hammering away with the updates competition got to love it

I don't really go for beta bios myself been having a lot of problems with the betas lately but that is why it is called beta

With the 8.8s, I got the black screen after install.

It turns out this was because I was using a modified bios to change the clockspeeds. I've since flashed back to original stock bios and havnt had any problems installing Cats since. I'm still using 8.7 hotfix though