Catalyst 4.9 BETA for Doom 3 OUT

HERE

 

oh there may actually be a lord!
I sure hope this helps

 

Any benches?

 

Very cool of ATI.

 

Any idea on how to get these to work with a 9700 mobility??

Thanks.

 

Edit: Sorry about original post, my ATI Tray Tools messed me up

Using Catalyst 4.7 Final ... ... ... 41.6 fps on 2nd run
Using Catalyst Doom 3 Beta ... ... ... 48.3 fps on 2nd run

This is on timedemo demo1.demo, 1024x768 at High Quality with 2x AA, 8x Quality AF, Quality Textures, Quality Mipmaps, Triple Buffering, and 24-bit Z Buffer

 

Are problems like the "snow" fixed?

 

whatta u mean problems like snow fixed??

and hese drivers 4.9 b do they increase performance and quality??

 

On some cards, if you have them OCed... you get snow. Read from this thread.:

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33772916

Happening to lots of people, me included.

 

I knew this was coming -- Meaning, I knew that no way in Hell was ATI going to loose sales of their X800 and other high end cards (9800 Pros; XTs) -- Because of poor performance in one of the most anticipated PC games that their customers (gamers) would be playing on Nvidia hardware instead.

It makes perfect business sense.

I wonder if they are going to skip Cat 4.8 and go straight to 4.9 next release date?

 

If you OC your Core too high you'll get artifacts like those.
And this game is heavy so you see it faster with this game than another

 

What kind of ATI do you have?

 

These are very nice drivers! They are much faster in OpenGL for me.

 

Well 1mhz OC makes it show up... and for people like me, who have flashed. Well.. we f'ed up.

 

one word:excellent!

 

does it only perform better in doom3 ?

 

hmm,

i 2 have been gettin random crashes and snow dots on my
9800 proOC@412/355 now i clock 2 400/345 me check if same?

btw this suks!

is ther anyway i can *RIP the opengl drivers from the 4.9 betas and use them on the 4.3s

 

Seems to work great for me. At 800x600 High Quality All Options enabled 8X AF 0XAA:

Timedemo 1
First Run: 27.4
Second Run: 30.4

To tell you the truth, they're the exact same as what I was getting with the 4.8b's. It doesn't matter though, I'm getting constantly smooth framerates so I couldn't care less of the driver number . Seems that these will help those with the X800's more, so just more of an incentive for me to get one now.

I'm going to try Call of Duty and see if OpenGL in general is faster.

 

hope this helps with painkiller also, but it runs awsome anyways so i do not care...i do not have doom 3 yet but hopefully when i get it tomorrow i will be able to run it at almost full strength

 

Here is how to "Rip" the atioglxx.dll:

1) Download the 4.9b hotfix.

2) Let it set itself up in a folder on your HD.

3) Hit "Cancel" when the install diallogue box comes up (hit "Yes" when the confirmation box pops up).

4) Use Windows Explorer and find the following folder:

C:\ATI\wxp-w2k-DOOM-HOTFIX-8-05-040727a-017086E\Driver\2KXP_INF\B_17036

5) Find the file "atioglxx.dl_".

6) Open it up with Winzip.

7) Extract the "atioglxx.dll" to:

C\Windows\system32\

8) Reboot (just to make sure).

I would highly recommend installing the entire package, however, just because they might have even made some D3D and DX9c enhancements as well.