NEW ATI DRIVERS--NR2002 up 18%!!

ATI announced new official drivers for the entire Radeon line. Here are the fixes listed at ati.com: - CodeCreatures score is improved by 20% at 4X AA for 9700 series products - NASCAR 2002 framerate is up as much as 18% across the entire RADEON products line - NHL 2002 performance is up as much as 35% across the entire product line (largest gains on RADEON 7500/8500) - Performance on legacy (dx6 and dx7) apps is improved by as much as 15% for RADEON 9700 Series products This is version number 6200C. -Tim

I'm running the 6228 DX9 drivers with the beta DX9 now. They seem fine, I'll have to try the DX9 demos tomorrow, they are supposed to be amazing. rms [email hidden]

How about some links to the new drivers from ATI and the DX9 deal Thanks Steve

On 15 Nov 2002 08:22:17 -0800, [email hidden] (StP) wrote: >How about some links to the new drivers from ATI and the DX9 deal Thanks Steve All the ATI links you could need are at www.rage3d.com Ian -- Ian Riches GPL Rank +1.76 Monsters of GPL +284.19

The new ATI official drivers are at www.ati.com. !!! -Tim "StP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > How about some links to the new drivers from ATI and the DX9 deal ThanksSteve

FWIW, I tried the new drivers for my Radeon 8500LE. I didn't see any frame rate increase in NR2002 or anywhere else (using Open GL), and it corrupted the track surface when in single race mode (but not in Testing Session). In addition, overall 3DMark score dropped from 8393 to 8252 on my system. So, I went back to the old drivers. As always, YMMV. Bert Tim Miser wrote:

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> ATI announced new official drivers for the entire Radeon line. Here are the > fixes listed at ati.com: > > - CodeCreatures score is improved by 20% at 4X AA for 9700 series products > - NASCAR 2002 framerate is up as much as 18% across the entire RADEON > products line > - NHL 2002 performance is up as much as 35% across the entire product line > (largest gains on RADEON 7500/8500) > - Performance on legacy (dx6 and dx7) apps is improved by as much as 15% for > RADEON 9700 Series products > > This is version number 6200C. > > -Tim

FWIW, I tried the new drivers for my Radeon 8500LE. I didn't see any frame rate increase in NR2002 or anywhere else (using Open GL), and it corrupted the track surface when in single race mode (but not in Testing Session). In addition, overall 3DMark score dropped from 8393 to 8252 on my system. So, I went back to the old drivers. As always, YMMV. Bert

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> ATI announced new official drivers for the entire Radeon line. Here are the > fixes listed at ati.com: > - CodeCreatures score is improved by 20% at 4X AA for 9700 series products > - NASCAR 2002 framerate is up as much as 18% across the entire RADEON > products line > - NHL 2002 performance is up as much as 35% across the entire product line > (largest gains on RADEON 7500/8500) > - Performance on legacy (dx6 and dx7) apps is improved by as much as 15% for > RADEON 9700 Series products > This is version number 6200C. > -Tim

On November 16 2002, BRH <"bertrh<no-spam>"@attbi.com> wrote:

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> FWIW, I tried the new drivers for my Radeon 8500LE. I didn't see any > frame rate increase in NR2002 or anywhere else (using Open GL), and it > corrupted the track surface when in single race mode (but not in > Testing Session). > > In addition, overall 3DMark score dropped from 8393 to 8252 on my > system. So, I went back to the old drivers. > > As always, YMMV.

In my case, also running an 8500LE I didn't see any improvement in DirectX, but OpenGL seemed to behave better. The initial rate didn't change much, but there was less of a decline in accidents and with damaged cars on the track. Outside of the game, the overall behavior of the new driver is quite good. It seems stable, and other images are crisper.