ATI Catalyst 8.5 released

[STaRGaZeR]

New Features

Catalyst™ 8.5 introduces the following new features:

* Catalyst™ Control Center Component Video
* ATI Graphics Driver Un-install Enhancement
* SECAM TV Out Support
* 1080p HDTV custom mode
* HDMI Audio for non-standard TV modes
* Adaptive AA on OpenGL for Catalyst™ Control Center
* 1080p24 Mode Support
* Windows XP Service Pack 3 support


Performance Improvements

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™.

* Call of Juarez DX10: Performance increases up to 12% on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3xx0 series of product
* Halo: Performance increases by 10-30% across all of the supported ATI Radeon™ series of products
* Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases from 5 to 35% on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3xx0 series of product
* Stalker DX9: Performance increases by 20-50% when HDR is enabled in the game; across all ATI Radeon™ HD38x0 series of products
* World in Conflict DX10: Performance increases up to 25% on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD36x0 and/or an ATI Radeon™ 38x0 series of product. Higher performance gains are noticed on systems contianing an ATI Radeon™ 3870x2 series of product

Release Notes: http://game.amd.com/us-en/content/pdf/Catalyst_85.pdf
Download: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

[sobol]

Download: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Nice, they're definitely going in right direction with this drivers.
Only if they could introduce some smashing performance with their
new card.

[massman]

Someone's willing to give the comparison in 3DMark vantage between the 3870X2's and 9800GX2's another shot?

[Monkeywoman]

more fixed problems here; https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...ase_notes.html. anyone check the sub files to see any new ATI card support?

[STaRGaZeR]

more fixed problems here; https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...ase_notes.html. anyone check the sub files to see any new ATI card support?

That link doesn't work, that's why it is not in the first post

DX10 improvements are huge if true, if anybody has results please post them.

[Monkeywoman]

That link doesn't work, that's why it is not in the first post.

works for me, r u using ff3 beta? that might be y...anyway its funny how they are still optimising the cards for Halo1,2 Doom and FarCry. it just seems like a waist of time, i'm guessing crysis will be optimised in 3 years?

[Apoc@]

Link doesn't work here also...

http://game.amd.com/us-en/content/pdf/Catalyst_85.pdf

This one works for sure

But looks like a nice little update, DX10 tweaks look good. Looking forward to the Catalyst 8.6 release and the new HD4xxx series.

[GoThr3k]

a lot of bugfixes and some improvements, good job ati

[vmsein]

Thanks for the heads up StaRGaZeR. Off to download now.....

[bhavv]

You have to be kidding me ...

I checked for new ATI drivers after recieving my 3850's yesterday and went ahead and installed 8.4 on them...

And now I need to reinstall again

Oh well.

[fatredwombat1]

You have to be kidding me ...

I checked for new ATI drivers after recieving my 3850's yesterday and went ahead and installed 8.4 on them...

And now I need to reinstall again

Oh well.

I too checked yesterday before work, oh well. I was just thinking that thaey are running out of time to have drivers to call 8.5 rather than skipping straight to 8.6.

[roadie]

Will whack these on my system tonight. Hopefully, they will solve the crashing I get with CCC when trying to access the Video settings.

[SEA]

Will whack these on my system tonight. Hopefully, they will solve the crashing I get with CCC when trying to access the Video settings.

That's not CCC to blame. I had similar thing from some incorrect video codecs.
Last time it was old version of ffdshow. Just turn it off and try CCC again.

PS or get correct last versions of codecs

[mascaras]

[FUD] Catalyst 8.5 hints new cards

The HD 3410, HD 3550, HD 3730 and HD 3750



It is always fun to dig around the .inf file when a new Catalyst driver is released, you never know what might pop up. In the case of the recently released Catalyst 8.5, we have few cards which were never announced.

So after a quick look through the .inf file we managed to find id strings of Sapphire's unannounced Radeon HD 3750. Some other strings revealed the RV610 based HD 3410 and HD 3550 cards. Last but not least we have the RV630 based HD 3730, which might be interesting to see.

When these cards will be officially announced, and if they will ever appear on shop shelves is of course unknown. But as we said, it is always fun to dig inside that .inf file.

"Sapphire Radeon HD 3750" = ati2mtag_RV630, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9598&SUBSYS_3001174B
"ATI Radeon HD 3410" = ati2mtag_RV610, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_94C3&SUBSYS_30001458
"ATI Radeon HD 3550 " = ati2mtag_RV610, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_95C5&SUBSYS_3001148C
"ATI Radeon HD 3730" = ati2mtag_RV630, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9598&SUBSYS_3000148C



Fudzilla

regards

[cadaveca]

Another driver that breaks Vantage...rendering errors in almost every test.

[Cooper]

Another driver that breaks Vantage...rendering errors in almost every test.

What is your system configuration?

[day187]

I hope this fixes my sound problem with my htpc (motherboard: GA-MA78GM-S2H AMD 780G) when using hdmi output and changing channel on TV...
Fingers crossed

[vmsein]

Another driver that breaks Vantage...rendering errors in almost every test.

Agreed. Running Vista 64 here

[NH|Delph1]

Spelling error in the release notes, what the heck?!

//Andreas

[generics_user]

best realease in a long time, and it fixes one major issue for me:

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI
Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. These
include:
• Crysis: Corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system
running Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and containing an ATI
Radeon™ HD 3870 series of product. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-34141
• Unreal Tournament 3: Changing

i love it =D

BTW: who cares about vantage, i hope you guys don'T sit in front of the screen and gaze at some stupid benchmark for several hours

[Seraphiel]

best realease in a long time, and it fixes one major issue for me:


i love it =D

BTW: who cares about vantage, i hope you guys don'T sit in front of the screen and gaze at some stupid benchmark for several hours

Good that it has improvements for you, but some do like those 'stupid benchmarks'. Here at XS, games aren't the ones being benchmarked, but 'stupid benchmarks' instead

[cadaveca]

What is your system configuration?

Maximus Formula SE, QX9650, 2x 3870x2, 4GB pc8500.

BTW: who cares about vantage, i hope you guys don'T sit in front of the screen and gaze at some stupid benchmark for several hours

Sure you are on the right forum?

[generics_user]

Maximus Formula SE, QX9650, 2x 3870x2, 4GB pc8500.



Sure you are on the right forum?

you still get a score at the end, who cares if the image during the test had corruption (benchmarking is about the score, not the looks

[cadaveca]

you still get a score at the end, who cares if the image during the test had corruption (benchmarking is about the score, not the looks

Becuase unless teh graphics are properly driawn , no real comparisons can be made between hardware. Valid scores are all I care about..no mipmap tweaking, etc, is allowed. It's not jsut about points..otherwise I'd be posting far greater scores than what I have already.


You might not be into benching by your comments...but I am!


Anyway, these rendering errors simply highlight issues with the driver rendering specific scenes and sharing the workload across the cards. It's not jsut about the bench...it's about quadfire being broken!

[generics_user]

Becuase unless teh graphics are properly driawn , no real comparisons can be made between hardware. Valid scores are all I care about..no mipmap tweaking, etc, is allowed. It's not jsut about points..otherwise I'd be posting far greater scores than what I have already.


You might not be into benching by your comments...but I am!

and how to make sure that scores on the orb weren't achieved with systems getting image corruption???

sorry i'm not into benchmarking so i dont know how FM validates scores

EDIT: and yes CF is broken, just like any multigpu solution is.... (i still like my cf setup, sure it has its problems but it runs crysis @1920x1200 with almost everything on high)