New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

[SKYMTL]

I guess 50% increase in avp min fps is a coincident then?
Pure luck?
so we see a zero to 50% depending on game from early drivers to mature drivers.

I think you should shut up and stop telling people what to do on forums.

Bull shyte.

Yes, there are some performance increases that come along every now and then through driver changes but most of these are for games which weren't released yet when the original release drivers were used. Naturally, driver teams can't build in optimizations for games that haven't been released yet which is why there are sometimes large performance jumps soon after a game is released. But in my experience, most of the EXISTING games very rarely see performance bumps through subsequent drivers unless there was something wrong to begin with.

Many performance increases have NEXT TO NOTHING to do with drivers and EVERYTHING to do with the game engine undergoing SIGNIFICANT efficiency changes through patches. Dirt 2 & AVP: