Catalyst 9.6

The new official Catalysts are out and it seems like theres a new driver for Windows 7 (mobility version of course)
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Seems like ATI is going to support notebook users for its Windows 7 version which is a good thing

If/when someone uploads a modded version for vista and/or a tweaked version (full screen scaling) please post it so i can update this post

 

That's good news. I look forward to getting W7 since I liked the RC so much.

 

Yea Hate all the modding for every driver. The only thing i havent yet confirmed is if theres a scaling problem with their drivers and if its possible to fix it with CCC since the settings should work now

 

I heard 9.6 has a big Crysis performance boost. Wonder if thats true.

 

Im sure julian will tell us soon

 

patch notes say 12% boost in multi-gpu setups.

unfortunately I have been unable to get it working on my W90 so far.

 

Will these run on vista by any chance (by manually installing the inf'?)

Cheers
Cata

 

For most machines it should install after mobility modder.

 

Yeap, to get them working for Vista just download the desktop drivers (vista ones) then use the mobility modder.

 

nice. ive been playing crysis on high 1280x1024. i noticed a big drop in performance when you get to start fighting the aliens. maybe this driver will fix dat

 

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 9.6 Windows release include:

Performance improvements

* Company of Heores – performance gains of up to 25% for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series, and performance gains of up to 10% for the ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series.
* Crysis Warhead – performance gains of up to 11% for ATI CrossFireX™ configurations.
* Crysis – performance gains of up to 13% for ATI CrossFireX™ configurations.
* World in Conflict – performance gains of up to 30% for settings are were previously CPU limited.

 

AHHAHHAAHAHAHA WOAT DO I READ!!!! IMPROOFED CROSSFIRE IN CRYSIS AND WARHEAD!!! AHAHAH OMG I CAN'T BNELIVE IT I AM IN HEAVEn^^

OK now I am a bit nervous

Greetings
Julian

PS: how mutch will the performance suffer when I run the taskmanager on the second LCD during running a benchmark?

 

it shouldnt kill performance at all..maybe a few points....when i had dual lcd setup i stayed about the same
i see no improvement in crysis warhead at all....still only peforms like im using a single gpu and isnt playable at all

 

I am just running Crysis Benchmark and I did a test yesterday but didn't save anything^^ But as far as I can "see" during the test Crysis runnes a good pice more fluently maxed out

TEST inc

Greetings
Julian

 

RESULTS!

Some time ago I did this Comparison and the fastes driver for Crysis was Catalyst 8.10 with 17,31 FPS @ DX10, 64bit and 1280x720 AA=16xQ



This time with 9.6, even without shutting something down, I got this! (same settings)


Impressive
19,76 More than +2,4 FPS (2,45 )

I know sb said the beta drivers would increas the temps but I think this version doesn't:



I hope this realy little test can give you some impression

After a short sleeping brake for my selfe I'll test how it feels

Greetings
Julian

 

do want to say i told you so .....but i told you so lol

 

you are god! You can see in the future

Greetings
Julian

 

lol... just has it on laptop for two weeks already.... i must have not been shouting loud enough

 

You didn't^^ BTW You said your temps where quite high^^ That was may be an other reason as well

So I'll run CW Test btw ich CAN NOT SELCT 1440x900^^ So pls don't ask me to do that (in Crysis may be in CW^^)

Sadly I have no comparison^^ But still it is itneresting I think^^

Greetings
Julian

 

i did you even made a post

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=388368

never mind lol tell us what benchies you get bud

 

Yea The only difference those are leaked, so you dont really know if all the changes are in and they are not signed

 

I know this thread^^ And I even more or less "quoted" something^^

But I still think you didn't make enought voice

Ok Crysis Warhead sucks Not the game but the results^^

Interesting ... the temps still very cool!

pics inc

Greetings
Julian

 

Year and I was afraid of them because sb said they would make the gpu go hotter than normal

Greetings
Julian