ATi managed to fix the CrossFire scaling issues that have been reported by [H]ard|OCP a few weeks ago. This is primarily for Alien versus Predator and Battlefield Bad Company 2.
You can download the new Profile Update at the bottom of this [H]ard|OCP article or directly here.
A short excerpt from the [H]ard|OCP article:
“In our recent SLI and CFX testing lately we have been disappointed in CrossFireX performance scaling, particular in two games that we felt should be exhibiting better performance scaling. This all started back when we did our round of GTX 460 SLI testing and discovered the GTX 460 SLI configuration blowing away even 5850 and 5870 CrossFireX ATI GPU video card configurations. Since then, we have been working with AMD to get to the bottom of performance issues with CrossFireX with the previous Catalyst drivers and CrossFireX Application Profile (CAP) software.
Catalyst 10.8 was released yesterday, and with it, a new CAP version as well. We tested the driver and CAP and found the same performance as we had been experiencing previously, there was no change.
AMD provided us with a new CrossFireX Application Profile today that its claims fixes and improves scaling with CrossFireX performance, particular in two titles, Aliens vs. Predator and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.”
ATi released the Catalyst 10.8 Suite today, as announced some days ago by Terry Makedon. The official website is a little behind, but should be updated soon. You will be able to grab the suite here or via direct Operating System links to the left side of this blog.
Alternatively you can already grab the Driver + CCC full package via this german website (Package is English language). Same goes for the mobility Catalyst Suite here.
The release notes talk about quite some new features and improvements: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 11th August 2010 by Falcon in General
Tags: Video
AMD launched a video showing off what can happen when you are using a nVidia Fermi GPU:
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Posted: 31st July 2010 by Falcon in Drivers, Hotfix Drivers
Tags: Driver, Hotfix, StarCraft 2
ATi just released their Catalyst 10.7a Hotfix driver, which was announced via Twitter lately. The fix was intended to include Anti-Aliasing support for the brand new StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. The detailed Changelog reads:
ATI Catalyst™ 10.7a beta driver features:
- Starcraft II: Support for Anti-Aliasing through the ATI Catalyst Control Center when using a Windows® 7, Windows Vista® or Windows XP based system with an:
- ATI Radeon™ HD 5xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
- ATI Radeon HD 4xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
- ATI Radeon HD 3xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
- ATI Radeon HD 2xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
- Improved performance for Quad ATI CrossFireX™ for Eyefinity™ supported configurations
You can download the driver via the AMD Knowledge Base.
Posted: 28th July 2010 by Falcon in Drivers
Tags: Driver, Hotfix, StarCraft 2
Blizzard’s newest game “StarCraft 2″ launched yesterday worldwide. The newest version of this series does not support Anti-Aliasing out of the box yet. But, there are always ways to have Anti-Aliasing regardless the developer implemented it or not.
Terry Makedon today announced via Twitter that there will be a Catalyst Hotfix for Anti-Aliasing support in StarCraft 2:
“On vacation – but just got an email saying that Starcraft 2 AA is almost ready. Just getting tested now. Hotfix soon.”
We will be posting a new Blog entry when the Hotfix driver is released. Blizzard on the other hand already stated that they will officially have Anti-Aliasing with a later game patch.
Posted: 26th July 2010 by Falcon in Drivers
Tags: Driver, GPU Decoding
ATi released the new Catalyst 10.7, including last but not least the GPU Decoding feature of VLC Player, as we already supported. We will post the detailed Changelist, as soon as the Release notes get published.
You can grab the Catalyst 10.7 via this link.
Update: Unfortunately the website is behind the AMD server. It isn’t updated yet. In the meantime you can download the full driver package here and the mobility version here.
Update 2: The AMD Website is now up to date, you can download the driver from there. Here are the detailed changes:
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 23rd July 2010 by Falcon in General
Tags: AMD, Gaming Evolved
AMD today launched “Gaming Evolved”:
“AMD’s Gaming Evolved program represents our deep commitment to PC gamers, PC game developers, and the PC gaming industry to deliver innovative technologies, nurture open industry standards, and to help the gaming industry create the best possible gaming experience on the world’s best gaming platform—the PC.”
You can read more about it here.
Posted: 20th July 2010 by Falcon in Tools
Tags: AMD, AMD Overdrive
AMD released v3.2.3 of the “AMD Overdrive” tool. With this tool you can overclock your CPU, fine tune your RAM settings or just have a look at your temperatures and settings.
The new version includes these changes:
AMD OverDrive™ Utility 3.2.3 (2010-7-2) Update list:
- Fixed the bug that AMD 840T processor cannot “disable” Turbo Core function.
- Fixed the bug that CPU core multiplier overclocking of AMD 840T CPU doesn’t work properly
- Enhanced the representation of memory serial number
It can be downloaded at Game.AMD.com.
ATi has released a new Catalyst Application Profile containing various improvements for existing and upcoming games:
Improvements:
- Support for AA for Anno1404
- Support for AA for Nasa’s Moonbase Alpha
- Performance profile for ArcaniA: Gothic 4
- Support for AA for Singularity
The new Application Profile is available at Rage3D.com. However, for the moment of this posting, the Download link is broken, as it points to an older profile. It should be fixed soon.
Update: This is the correct working Download link.
Posted: 2nd July 2010 by Falcon in Applications
Tags: Driver, GPGPU, GPU Decoding, VLC
The VLC video player was recently released in a version that supported GPU Decoding. However, it did not work with ATi and Intel GPUs. Now, the makers of VLC announced that Version 1.1.1 will support GPU Decoding together with ATi cards and Catalyst 10.7:
VLC DxVA2 GPU decoding is now working with 1.1.1 and ATI catalyst driver 10.7… Looking for testers… http://www.videolan.org/news.html
Of course we will post a new Blog, when Catalyst 10.7 package will be released, so keep looking here!
