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    Best Driver for 4870 cards

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by DemolitionManHD, Sep 5, 2010.

  1. DemolitionManHD

    DemolitionManHD Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all,

    As you all know at present AMD (ATI) haver released alot of new drivers to improve performance etc and recently every Dell has release a beta driver. At present i have dual 4870 cards and have tried version 10.8 which gave me issues with games, what would be the best drive to install, i was thinking 10.7 which i have not tried?

    Also, what would be the best setup for the HD's RAID or not? how much preformance increase woould there be.
     
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    which games have you tried on 10.8 ? i am so far very pleased with it.
     
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    Kane and Lynch had purple lines on the screen and call of duty did not look clear. I deinstalled back to 10.5 and all worked.
     
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    Just checked COD4 and it looks excellent.
    Might be something on your end.

    If you plan to play Starcraft you better find a way to install 10.7 and up ;)
     
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    The only other option is i do a clean install with 10.8 with the ATI profiler tool which will need customisation as they are steam games. What do you think?
     
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    im using 10.8 and playing assassins creed 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction perfectly.


    havent had time to install COD4, ill check back when i do
     
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    I will try a clean install, Is it recommended to have the disc in a RAID0 array or separate?
     
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    clean install is a little radical imho but it'll work :)
    I used ATI 10.8 drivers, not Dell's, not sure which one you used.

    As for the RAID array, it's up to you, it improves speeds a little but it also introduces quite a few issues, are you aware of them ?
     
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    Yeah, i am aware, was just wondering what everyone else is running and how much better ther performance is, as for the clean install, i think it is about time anyway. But will be creating a backup image after.
     
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    I have had poorer performance with 10.8 compared to 10.7/10.6/10.5 even though 10.8 does improve performance in Far Cry 2 3-8 % for single-XF.
     
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