Nvidia, ATI Release New Drivers

[exfileme]

Both Nvidia and ATI released new drivers over the past few days: Nvidia's GeForce 185.68 beta driver and ATI's Catalyst 9.4

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[wickedsnow]

Awesome!

 

[SirCrono]

Wow, those are some performance gains.

 

[kyeana]

when i tested it, the new ati overdrive tool clocked my 4850 to high, resulting in a blue screen

 

[warezme]

what about that ambient occlussion thing? I thought that was new. I tried it on Farcry 2 with dual 295's and it looked incredibly good but the next time I tried to run it all I got was a jigsaw of black squares with the scene appearing and disappearing underneath? It was odd. I turned it off and all was well. My 295's are OC'ed to 285 spec's though so that may be part of the issue.

 

[scooterlibby]

Warezme I got the same issue when I put AO up to high with FC2 using two GTX260's. I believe you don't get to choose the level of AO on the new drivers, so maybe it is solved.

Tom's, why do you list the claimed performance boosts without testing them? Why parrot these claims when they rarely stand up to any scrutiny? At least don't parrot the driver claims like they are known facts. Sloppy cut and paste press release masquerading as a news item.

 

[IzzyCraft]

Mirror's Edge (45-percent).
lol i sometimes wonder what set ups they are using to get these percentages

 

[thedipper]

Well, it's not like they're increasing performance beyond a well-optimized state.

The reason they get huge performance gains from drivers is because the previous driver was causing slowdown with that engine.

 

[antemon]

linux drivers?

 

[hemelskonijn]

The new ATI drivers did not fix the frame-drop problem some of us (me and some friends) have with the HD3650 graphics cards.
Though the systems we use differ a lot from each other we all seem to have lag-ish effects while both ping and fps are more then ok.

In my case switching to the desktop and back seems to work though.

 

[ooo]

Does it work with the 8800 series ?

 

[ooo]

Does it work with the 8800 series ?

 

[WheelsOfConfusion]

[citation][nom]antemon[/nom]linux drivers?[/citation]
ATI releases their Linux drivers pretty close to the Windows drivers, so it should be coming soon. Unfortunately the 9.4 drivers and beyond will no longer support cards older than the HD 2000 series. You'll have to use the open drivers, or stick with 9.3, if your comp (like my laptop) has an older card.

 

[baddad]

Does not work with the 8800 series cards, and I don't understand why it doesn't.

 

[Gryphyn]

The last three Nvidia driver releases have caused flickering problems in Rainbow Six Vegas 2 for me on my 8800 GTS 640, so I keep rolling back to the last one that worked fine. I'll try these out though.

 

[ooo]

You need 185.20 beta drivers to get the ambient occlusion tab in the nvidia panel 4 the 8800 series...

 

[Guest]

i don't now is better i buy a good pc system or a good game console !
but i know that all company's use us to earn money i know they have 10 years later technology but they wanna sell older technology before to earn money better we are just a tool :| i hate all company's but i need to use that product's today i buy a ati 4850 Toxic CF at $260 ! but i live in iran . i sell my psp to buy this card )