ATi Fails at 2D

Toms Hardware did some analysis of 2D rendering. Their findings have been sent to ATi and ATi has promised that this will be fixed in Catalyst 10.4. This is pretty embarrassing for ATi.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/2d-windows-gdi,2539-8.html

ATi hardware rendering of 2D is pretty much non-existent. Horrifying!

If you've been benchmarking with PassMark or any other tool that tests 2D rendering, hopefully your marks on the ATi 5xxx series will increase vastly.

 

Looks like this applies to the 4000-series too. I'll be looking forward to 10.4

 

Why does it always seem like your the last to know? Seriously quit posting old news.

 

Not very old if ATi has said they will be releasing it on 10.4 if it's not out yet. If someone posted this before, I am unaware of this for this forums.

But thanks for letting us know you are ahead of the curve!

 

I didn't see anywhere any mention of the 10.4 driver. I read their response saying that it would be addressed in a driver update in the future. Unless you have some sort of quote I didn't see, doesn't that mean it could just as easily have been implemented in 10.2 or 10.3?

 

I would have thought the article being over 2 months old was a give away, as storm effect said it should have been fixed a while ago

 

The response from ATi is not 2 months old.

Why do you care if this is posted? If you don't like it, don't read it...

Are you somehow affected that this was posted and you now need mental assistance?

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17966/1/

According to Fudzilla, looking for direct quote from ATi, but haven't found one.

Also the ATi has released drivers supporting OpenGL 4.0 recently and believe the 10.4 may include those. If not here: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Catalyst-OpenGL-preview-driver.aspx
- I haven't tried to see if they support mobile or not.

 

Where is the response from ATI? If it is the last page the update says 1/26/2010... so more than 2 months old. Am I missing something?

 

can't see anything on that tiny screenshot, I guess I need a microscope

 

It is in the fudzilla link he posted.


So maybe this is a problem, although technically it appeared as though Nvidia cards (dedicated ones) were suffering similar performance issues. As long as they get GDI accelerated properly, I'm happy.

So I'll be looking forward to this 10.4 driver! I assume that means near the end of April, hehe.

 

So what problems does this give the average user ? , can somebody give me an example.

 

Plz this isn't old... and if u don't like it Rorschach don't read... but this is quite embarrasing.. and tinderbox , i think it has something to do with aero not working properly...