[H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
2D acceleration is another area that has problems with the latest video cards/drivers. Ati is mostly affected but Nvidia also has it's share of problems. There is a part 2 to this article that I'm reading next. Still going to be a few months before AMD gets mature drivers out to us but at this

Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
Part 2 update: As you can see, the performance in Catalyst 10.1 (our hotfixed version, not the publicly-available driver <#>) is substantially better than Catalyst 9.12 with Aero enabled, in the case of polygons, even surpassing the performance of 9.12 in Windows XP. This is the fix we've bee

[H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 & 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
10.2 is supposed to be out but when I checked it still showed 10.1. Maybe later on today it will show up. Legit Reviews touts it as a "major" update. "By far the Application Profiles feature is the coolest feature in Catalyst 10.2. I think it will revolutionize the way drivers will be updated

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 & 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-02-17 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I hope all this comes true so I can feed good about buying a 5770. On 2/17/2010 1:33 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: 10.2 is supposed to be out but when I checked it still showed 10.1. Maybe later on today it will show up. Legit Reviews touts it as a "major" update. "By far the Application Profiles fea

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 & 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-02-17 Thread Zulfiqar Naushad
All this is great. But I have a 4890 and what is the perf gain on that card? Regards, Zulfiqar Naushad On Feb 17, 2010, at 9:33 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: 10.2 is supposed to be out but when I checked it still showed 10.1. Maybe later on today it will show up. Legit Reviews touts it as a "m

Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-17 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
It's been a long time since 2D acceleration was even an issue, no? On 2/17/2010 10:53 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: 2D acceleration is another area that has problems with the latest video cards/drivers. Ati is mostly affected but Nvidia also has it's share of problems. There is a part 2 to this article

Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-17 Thread Winterlight
At 10:54 AM 2/17/2010, you wrote: It's been a long time since 2D acceleration was even an issue, no? I don't care if they perform better or not, I would just like to see some stable drivers from ATI so I don't have to reboot twice a day! On 2/17/2010 10:53 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: 2D acceler

Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
Its still an issue for artists and engineers since the change in GDI to Direct2D with the release of Vista and DX10. I was just posting because of the general weirdness of my new HD5770 on Win 7. However, at the time I didn't know that 10.2 was to be released today. I've already downloaded and

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 & 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
I just finished downloading and installing. Got my fingers crossed but haven't had much time with it because I'm reading reviews on 10.2 and 10.3 on a different box than my game machine. On 2/17/2010 12:54 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: I hope all this comes true so I can feed good about buying

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 & 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
I believe you will have to upgrade to a 5000 series card to see the benefits. Tempting no? On 2/17/2010 12:56 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: All this is great. But I have a 4890 and what is the perf gain on that card? Regards, Zulfiqar Naushad On Feb 17, 2010, at 9:33 PM, Stan Zaske wrote:

Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
Are you sure that's what it is? I've been downloading and installing Ati drivers since my X1900XT and don't ever recall being forced to reboot because of them. On 2/17/2010 1:03 PM, Winterlight wrote: At 10:54 AM 2/17/2010, you wrote: It's been a long time since 2D acceleration was even an i

Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-17 Thread Winterlight
Yes I am sure, I guess you missed Greg's post At 12:42 PM 2/17/2010, you wrote: Are you sure that's what it is? I've been downloading and installing Ati drivers since my X1900XT and don't ever recall being forced to reboot because of them. On 2/17/2010 1:03 PM, Winterlight wrote: At 10:54

[H] Strong recommend

2010-02-17 Thread tmservo
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Re: [H] Strong recommend

2010-02-17 Thread Brian Weeden
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Re: [H] Strong recommend

2010-02-17 Thread tmservo
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Re: [H] Strong recommend

2010-02-17 Thread DSinc
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Re: [H] Strong recommend

2010-02-17 Thread tmservo
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Re: [H] Strong recommend

2010-02-17 Thread DSinc
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