ATI Catalyst 10.3a Driver Performance

[yzmxer608]

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/03/ ... erformance

Good to see ATI on their game for drivers. DiRT2 was really the only game that got a significant gain from them (9fps average). Haven't tried them yet to see if they work okay with MXS yet though.

[yzmxer608]

Just tried the official release of 10.3 and they worked fine in MXS. They didn't crash the game like 10.1 did for me.

[mace-x]

is ati worth a shot?
i´ve been an envidia enthusiast for a long time but now, they sucks, launching the same cards over and over again with some different names is not cool
i´ll gotta rig me up a new pc for university at this year´s summer...

[yzmxer608]

ATI is good yeah, ATI is getting more frequent driver updates which I like. The only thing I don't like about my 5870 (seems like it happens with all high end ATI cards) is that it makes a squealing type noise on high load. As far as performance, they have been lower than Nvidia cards, but this generation (at least from what rumored benchmarks have shown) ATI is a LOT close to Nvidia in performance.

[yzmxer608]

Forgot to add that ATI is normally lower in price than Nvidia too.

[DJ99X]

ATI is good yeah, ATI is getting more frequent driver updates which I like. The only thing I don't like about my 5870 (seems like it happens with all high end ATI cards) is that it makes a squealing type noise on high load. As far as performance, they have been lower than Nvidia cards, but this generation (at least from what rumored benchmarks have shown) ATI is a LOT close to Nvidia in performance.

I get that squeel in my 8800GT. Under heavy load in MXS, when I zoom in and out, you can hear the pitch of the sound change

[yzmxer608]

I don't remember that happening to mine, maybe it just wasn't as loud or something. It does get kinda annoying if it's constant though.

[DJ99X]

Is it just me or does the anti aliasing suck with ATI. I swear I've tried every setting, and the narrow edges all get eaten away/shimmering. Really noticable with specularity

This is with 8x AA with edge-detect (x24 samples), set to adaptive Multi

[yzmxer608]

I liked Nvidia AA too. In the CCC control panel I have 8x Box AA, Super-sample AA, 16x AF, standard AI (anything higher mxs seems to crash), and high quality mip maps.

Try box instead of edge detect, edge detect made textures blurry for me.

[DJ99X]

Yeah I noticed the blurry textures. Hmmm, thats a bit of a disappointment

[yzmxer608]

Yeah, only part I miss about my 9800 is the AA .