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    New ATI 11.8 Drivers

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Bodycount69, Aug 17, 2011.

  1. Bodycount69

    Bodycount69 Notebook Consultant

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    Improves performance up to 10% in Crysis 2 DirectX 11 version for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series

    Improves performance up to 8% in Fear 3 DirectX 11 version with application enabled Anti-Aliasing on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series

    Improves performance up to 30% when AMD’s Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) is enabled through the Catalyst™ Control Center on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series

    Improves performance up to 20% in Call of Duty Black Operations for single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series


    AMD Graphics Drivers & Software ? Download the latest drivers for your graphics products
     
    Bodycount69, Aug 17, 2011
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  2. schockie

    schockie Notebook Evangelist

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    Sounds hella-promissing !! :eek: Will install when I get back home.
     
    schockie, Aug 18, 2011
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  3. Slushpuppie91

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    they actually care about us 5 series guys still.
     
    Slushpuppie91, Aug 18, 2011
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  4. schockie

    schockie Notebook Evangelist

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    Guess we have an angel watching over us after all :p
     
    schockie, Aug 18, 2011
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    oh yea the MLAA is a bit better now.
     
    Slushpuppie91, Aug 18, 2011
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  6. Bodycount69

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    About time us 5 series got some love great drivers :)
     
    Bodycount69, Aug 18, 2011
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  7. Yiddo

    Yiddo Believe, Achieve, Receive

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    Just what I was thinking and bout time they fixed the issues they left behind.

    5 series FTW.
     
    Yiddo, Aug 18, 2011
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    I think this boat sailed without me... but how do you enable MLAA on the 5870m???? I'm assuming its either a reg tweak, or modded driver, but I got nothing regarding MLAA in CCC :(
     
    bluefalcon13, Aug 18, 2011
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    me too, no MLAA in CCC
     
    dark_nerd, Aug 20, 2011
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    Apparently the preview is better than the WHQL so if you have the preview do not bother with these. Anyway, MLAA is such a wasted oppurtunity. Not only is the performance not better and have worse results than regular AA but it affects everything and not just the 3D portions. Makes all the menus look kind of...funny. The Steam overlay is fugly as hell. Dislike it a lot. Here's an example:

    No MLAA: http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/3650/nomlaa.png
    MLAA: http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/6889/mlaa.png

    It's not as bad in BC2 but it was the only game I had open. I don't think there's any way to fix that right now, shenanigans I say.
     
    KuroLionheart, Aug 20, 2011
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    Is MLAA enabled by default?
    How to make sure its enabled
     
    baastrup, Aug 21, 2011
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  12. bluefalcon13

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    Meh, I'll just rock release till AMD added support for our cards. No point in added something that's not 'approved' by AMD on my work laptop o_O

    My MBP 3,1's 8600GT seems like it just took a dive off the deep-end crazy flickering in lines of blue tint and normal colors today, and that was my backup work lappy...
     
    bluefalcon13, Aug 21, 2011
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