CATALYST 10.6 alpha?

There's been another leak from ATI, it contains display driver 8.740.0.0000, new control panel, support for Intel switchable graphics, AMD chipset drivers, and a new control panel based video encoder.

http://strags.com/ has it. Supports desktop/mobile.

For comparison, CATALYST 10.3 has driver version 8.712.0.0000 so this is MUCH newer..

 

Will try it out, im enjoying these leaks

 

Does it fixes the slow loading times in BC2?

 

Who leaks all this stuff anyway?

 

Switch to DX9 if your having long load times, I have a SSD and the load times were unbearable before I switched to DX9. Basically no visual difference either.

 

DX9 causes bad artifacts for me like flashing textures.

Now maybe thats gone with the profile update I got the other day. I got used to the loading times though they are not too bad.

I did change to DX10 from DX11 for fps boost, I was hitting 20's in some of the really bad weather conditions. I also changed frame to render ahead to 1

 

I've actually heard on [H] that it does.

 

hmmm tempting

I'll wait for confirmation though.

 

If this is real, shouldn't ati be focusing on making one solid driver, 10.4, instead of cloning 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6?

 

So.. wait, support for Intel switchable graphics? Does this mean that any laptop with an ATI GPU and an integrated Intel GMA is suddenly going to become a laptop with switchable graphics, or am I just getting overexcited?

 

Sweet to see switchable graphics.
Take that Nvidia!

Just curious if its a seamless switch like Optimus or the crappy solution i seen on older notebooks.
(Manually switch)

 

ATi has had this option for quite a while. They even have a great system when you use AMD CPU, Chipset and GPU.
- Since 2008, AMD has provided switchable graphics that dynamically change without any reboot needed depending on power usage.
- But because of Intel's anti-trust method of business, majority of Notebooks do use Intel and Intel did not want this feature enabled on most Intel/ATi notebooks. This is why not many know about even though since HD3400 this has existed. Intel did cooperate with AMD to create this feature, but does not mean they wanted to give AMD more attention by having it actually enabled...
- If you have AMD Chipset and AMD GPU, then AMD has another feature, combining the power of your discrete GPU with the IGP on the Chipset to boost performance. A miniature X-Fire.

Anyways, having this option doesn't mater unless the manufacturer of our notebook enabled it or not.

So just because the i7 on my G73 has an integrated GPU and my HD5870 supports switchable graphics (believe 5xxx do), it doesn't matter since Asus did not enable this feature. So don't get overexcited.

 

No your i7 does not have integrate GPU.

 

Actually it does. Mobile i7 have the graphics unit integrated right into the chip. Paired with HM55, it's a two chip graphics system.

 

I think the i7-620m does but the i7 quad cores don't.

 

Did they fix the black glass on the mounted machineguns?

 

Intel says no

 

wan't the integrated GPU on the chipset? so if Asus G73 has HM55 chipset , it should have the integrated GPU which is disabled..

 

No. The IGP has always been on the CPU chip (not die, though) in the i5 series (and the i7-620M).

 

official 10.4 preview are out, fixes load times on bc2
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATI-Catalyst-10-4-Hotfix.aspx

edit: hmm must not be for mobile, they dont work on my g73jh

 

Also tested the 10.6alpha and got 500 less 3dmark 06 points

 

Found some mirrors.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0UTSKFBK

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5e8EbgR4qQyMDU0ZTMwYzctYmJkZC00YWRiLWI5MDItNGRkNDMxODJhYWEx&hl=en

Over 100 people have confirmed them working and also confirmed BFBC2 is loading faster now on ATI cards!
(and I verify also I say loading time cut in half for me on my G73)

Installed just fine, it even has a really nice hardware accelerated video converter included.

 

ok thanks. That was one thing i didn't know properly about this arrandale platform.

 

Same for me. Doubled if not trippled my load times.

 

I think you mean halfed if not cut into one third your load times

 

I feel like my game loads faster in DX11 now than it did in DX9 on my 5870m.

 

does this work on sony vaio?

 

that would depend on the video card in the vaio in question.

if its a newer ati card it should work.

 

card is HD 5650

i heard sony opted out of ati catalyst program, thats why i asked

 

That can just mean they will not supply the drivers if its a standard dedicated card it will work.

If its some special preparatory part then maybe it wont work.

 

Thanks for the link!

 

Installed these drivers also on the G73JH and the load times are finally normal for BFBC2. Also with Furmark the stuttering is gone.

Some say they run cooler for them but it don't get that.

 

Does these work on a Sony Vaio EB?

 

I could not get these drivers to load on my M15x/5870. I ran setup and then went to device manager and went to update driver. No worky.

 

have to reboot before you will see the change

 

does anyne use driver sweeper afteer they uninstall theyr old drivers?

btw. these dropped my 3dmark06 score quite a bit but if i can load faster its worth it i guess..can anyone else confirm lower scores?

 

I use Driver Cleaner. Driver Sweeper does nothing, just run CCleaner and that will do more than what Driver Sweeper does. Driver Sweeper is a joke I believe, no seriously a joke, a bad one since I'm not laughing.

 

Yeah for me also driver sweeper does not seem to work. Driver Cleaner does but since its not free anymore I do not have it.

For ATI I just install over the top of my old drivers, the official instructions from ATI say to do this and it seems to work well. I would only resort to cleaning if I had problems.

In the past I always cleaned and it gave me more problems than it solved saying I was missing files I needed for install.

 

Would be interested if this works with switchable graphics. My lenovo T500 has it and so I might be interested in this as I think the current drivers are ancient as supplied by lenovo.

 

It's only $9. I bought it 5 years ago and all the updates and new versions are still available to me. Seems to be buy it once, all updates what not forever.

 

Yeah its $10 for a lifetime license but I am cheap and hate to pay for something that was free.

 

errr...not really.

 

are these olny for x86? or it can be installed on my w7 x64 hd5650? Thanks

 

Has anyone tried this on alienware M17XR2 ?

 

Yes. I have it on my system.