Pre-emptive strike: Catalyst 10.7

[Ket]

Just making a thread for the new Catalyst 10.7 drivers which should be released tomorrow so people can share their results with them

[klataa]

lets hope they will put them tomorrow and hoping that those 10.7 will make any changes in BFBC2 CF

[Ket]

I have a simple list for Cats 10.7 and I hope these points have been addressed;

- Optimise tessellation performance (rumor is ATI are working on using some stream processors to aid the tessellation unit)
- Fix the stupid 2D clock bug thats been there since Cats 10.5
- Fix the bug that causes a blank screen and forces a hard reset when installing the driver
- Return performance to that of 10.3/10.4 (10.5/10.6 performance in real games was way worse) and optimise of AvP

[JoeBar]

lets hope they will put them tomorrow and hoping that those 10.7 will make any changes in BFBC2 CF

Let's hope that this one eventually fixes all CF probs in BC2 and bring the framerate back to 10.4 levels...

[Ket]

Thats what I forgot, fix the borked CF. ATI have lost it lately.

[zanzabar]

did they put out a preview driver, i havnt seen anything for a month or 2 but early in the year they were all about pre whql drivers

[Cleatus]

just a fake 10.7 released a while ago by ATIMan..

The 10.7 release date was not confirmed as far as I know unless it was recent, its been rumored only for July 21st

[Ket]

I think there was a tweet confirming it, then that tweet got deleted

[Ket]

did they put out a preview driver, i havnt seen anything for a month or 2 but early in the year they were all about pre whql drivers

Nope no previews and zip from ATI what the 10.7s will actually do.. its the lack of info that makes me think ATI are working on some kind of "surprise". Wether its good or bad... we'll find out soon.

[klataa]

no any news about today release?

[W1zzard]

should we make a preemptive thread about christmas ? put up wish lists only to be disappointed if there is no santa?

[Ket]

Thread was made a mere day before, quit being a troll.

no any news about today release?

Not yet. I'm 6hrs or more ahead of you guys so when their up I'll be amongst the first to try

[ChaosAD]

I am still on 9.12's i think. I dont have any issues at all atm either benching or gaming. I m only going to upgrade if there are some real performance gains. Plz give them a try and report back, i ll really appreciate that. I need a win 7 reinstall along with the ati drivers, LOL.

[OCD-OC]

Aye Ket, I had trifire issues on 10.6 10.5 is better but not great ... if 10.7 is a major improvement we can all report back here

Time to get home run vantage and a few other benches see what happens after new drivers

[screwtech02]

I certainly hope the 10.7's are better than the last couple releases. I'm really wantin to get another 5830 for trifire.....

[klataa]

I guess that there will be no new driver today

[Ket]

Patience. Its only about 9:30am in the US now. Give them time From what I do know of the 10.7 drivers VLC player will have hardware acceleration. @ OCD-OC, its well worth finding a newer driver. Not long ago ATi revised OGL to 4.0, the driver you are using will be around 3.0, at best.

[OCD-OC]

Patience. Its only about 9:30am in the US now. Give them time From what I do know of the 10.7 drivers VLC player will have hardware acceleration. @ OCD-OC, its well worth finding a newer driver. Not long ago ATi revised OGL to 4.0, the driver you are using will be around 3.0, at best.

How would OpenGL 4.0 affect performance ?

the games I mostly play are DX10/11

still, any sign yet .. or a tweet ?

[SoulsCollective]

Noone's said anything about the most glaring bug that needs fixing - the BSOD-on-install. Would also be good if multi-monitor cursor corruption was addressed.

[Ket]

I mentioned that bug It may be a BSOD for you, but 99% of people experience it as their display going blank and never recovering forcing a hard reset. 5PM in the UK, which makes it 11am over there.. come on ATI, before lunchtime.

[Ket]

How would OpenGL 4.0 affect performance ?

the games I mostly play are DX10/11

still, any sign yet .. or a tweet ?

OGL 4.0 is a nice update for any OGL game. We all know how ATi OGL performance lacks, so anytime they say they updated something to do with OGL its worth getting excited

[SoulsCollective]

I mentioned that bug It may be a BSOD for you, but 99% of people experience it as their display going blank and never recovering forcing a hard reset.

Er...no. No, those stats are completely wrong. A quick Google and forum browse reveals a hell of a lot of complaints re BSODs, not many of blank displays. I'm prepared to accept that that's common as well, but saying only 1% of those having problems experience them as a BSOD is complete crap.

Not holding out hope for a release today. Twitter post pulled for a reason.

[sunn]

Another 7 days

RT @DJ_Casper07: @CatalystMaker you will release Catalyst 10.7 today? As VLC media player v1.1.1 released today Me - no not today

CatalystMaker

[Ket]

Er...no. No, those stats are completely wrong. A quick Google and forum browse reveals a hell of a lot of complaints re BSODs, not many of blank displays. I'm prepared to accept that that's common as well, but saying only 1% of those having problems experience them as a BSOD is complete crap.

Not holding out hope for a release today. Twitter post pulled for a reason.

Just because the google results I got came up with more blank screen than it BSODing does not make it complete crap. I resent your choice of words. LINK

[Razrback16]

I am still on 9.12's i think. I dont have any issues at all atm either benching or gaming. I m only going to upgrade if there are some real performance gains. Plz give them a try and report back, i ll really appreciate that. I need a win 7 reinstall along with the ati drivers, LOL.

That's how I roll with the driver releases as well. If they don't include a performance increase in a game I'm not already running at crazy framerates, or a bug fix that I'm currently experiencing, I stay on my current drivers, which as of right now, are 10.4