BOYS, catalyst 8.12

[JeddyH]

downloading now, ill also use the AMD fusion thing in benching

[Abel.]

mmmm 2.2megs a second DL speed, will install and post results shortly

Lucky you, I have sh*t wirless broadband. , I'm anticipating this, however.

[Ixuuh]

Worked great with the 8.11 drivers on my computer, E8400, HD4850 and 3gigs of ram. Now I installed the new drivers, got a little fps boost, also my game now looks like this:

 

Anyone know what could be causing this?

[phishinNYC]

have those of you who are reporting improvements, however slight they might be, TRIED THE BETA VERSION FIRST?????

 

I have the Beta on now, wondering if I will see a difference between them and the official release

[Demonith]

I can't find the 8.12 driver??? where is it i find only 8.11??? wtf

[HanShotFirst]

Worked great with the 8.11 drivers on my computer, E8400, HD4850 and 3gigs of ram. Now I installed the new drivers, got a little fps boost, also my game now looks like this:

 

Anyone know what could be causing this?

Oh dear. That doesn't make me want to install and try this driver.

 

Did you remove your previous driver, use a driver cleaning prog in safe mode and then install the new driver?

[HanShotFirst]

I can't find the 8.12 driver??? where is it i find only 8.11??? wtf

8.12 drivers

[Demonith]

I can't find the 8.12 driver??? where is it i find only 8.11??? wtf

8.12 drivers

TNX

[trx]

8.11

Statistics

Average FPS: 33.23

Duration: 36.96 sec

CPU Usage: 90%

System memory usage: 82%

Video memory usage: 70%

 

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1280 x 1024 (60 Hz)

Texture Quality: Medium

Render Quality: High

View Distance: 25

Detail Distance: 37

 

Hardware

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Service Pack 3

Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

Video Driver version: 6.14.10.6879

Audio Adapter: Realtek HD Audio output

Intel® Core2 Duo CPU     E4600  @ 2.40GHz

 

File ID: Benchmark.cli

8.12

Statistics

Average FPS: 35.49

Duration: 37.10 sec

CPU Usage: 89%

System memory usage: 71%

Video memory usage: 67%

 

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1280 x 1024 (60 Hz)

Texture Quality: Medium

Render Quality: High

View Distance: 25

Detail Distance: 37

 

Hardware

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Service Pack 3

Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

Video Driver version: 6.14.10.6891

Audio Adapter: Realtek HD Audio output

Intel® Core2 Duo CPU    E4600  @ 2.40GHz

 

File ID: Benchmark.cli

 

For those interested: my cpu is clocked to 2.70

 

edit: forgot to set my overdrive settings back.

~2fps +

Edited December 10, 2008 by trx

[fredi_]

 

Worked great with the 8.11 drivers on my computer, E8400, HD4850 and 3gigs of ram. Now I installed the new drivers, got a little fps boost, also my game now looks like this:

 

Anyone know what could be causing this? 

Oh dear. That doesn't make me want to install and try this driver.

 

Did you remove your previous driver, use a driver cleaning prog in safe mode and then install the new driver?

check in CCC if your mipmap detail level is set to HIGH QUALITY

[radeonhd]

I updated and there are no improvements, gta IV still running like sh*t, ati doesn't improve anything

[Rokkec]

I only got 1 FPS more while benchmarking..about 33 FPS..but I think it actually runs obviously a little better than that in game:D

The GTA IV benchmark is soo bogus lol..

[Demonith]

How remove CCC

[Stewerd]

Give it a little more time? how about thoes who cant play the game ATT ALL? meaing.. 5 minutes then the computer freezes? WOHO.. atleast i could play crysis when it was released..

What are you system specs.

 

They rushed this for the holiday season bugs or no bugs.

 

Maybe its forum karma LOL!

be nicer and maybe it will work for ju

 

Runs great for me.

Intel Q9550

Gigabyte X48T-DQ6

OCZ 4096MB 1800Mhz Memory

Asus HD4870x2

Fresh install of Vista Ultimate 64bit with all updates... update netframework and directx.

Have you tried this new catalyst version?

[Steppzor]

Nope not yet.. working on it. Ill post with resaults after installation of the driver

[waldoribeiro]

So much for significant performance increase...

[camdean]

Use your control panel to remove previous drivers.

 

 

 

I use this programme afterwards to remove everything when I boot up after removing from control panel.

 

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,...escription.html

 

 

How to use driver sweeper ..

 

After normal un-install, reboot and press F6 or F8 to bring up your boot menu and go into safe mode (press the key just after bios display)

 

 

Run driver sweeper, select ATI-Display/Clean, rebbot and install new drivers.

 

 

 

[Lil' Prophet]

Nothing have changed with it. GREAT!!!

[Stewerd]

Nope not yet.. working on it. Ill post with resaults after installation of the driver

Yeah I got a little worried about your computer freezes up on the game. (Check signature )

Dont have the game yet.

[Ixuuh]

 

check in CCC if your mipmap detail level is set to HIGH QUALITY

EDIT#2: Okay, it works now with high quality mipmap ^^ thanks

Edited December 10, 2008 by Ixuuh

[oropher3]

almost same performance. still some texture-popin when turning around while my mem-usage is in green.

maybe rockstars patch will solve this.

[Oksar]

I got an extra 7 fps when I did the benchmark. I used the beta before! O.o

 

See sign for specs.

[Chevyboy]

Anyone else tried the updated avivo converter? Still seems to not be using the GPU to convert, only the CPU. Bunch of people were posting that on 3dguru and after testing I can confirm that at least on my rig. Anyone else give it a try yet?

[Steppzor]

Anyone else tried the updated avivo converter? Still seems to not be using the GPU to convert, only the CPU. Bunch of people were posting that on 3dguru and after testing I can confirm that at least on my rig. Anyone else give it a try yet?

it apears only to use the gpu on mpeg2 files ive read :S

[MrEnigma]

Got as high as 36-38FPS before.......downloaded the update, selected 'uninstall', then used Driver Cleaner Platinum afterwards. Then rebooted, installed 8.12 and now the game refuses to load at all. The R* + GTA 4 logos show up, the screen goes black and nothing loads.

 

Some patch.....

[JeddyH]

Forgot to bench on the old beta for comparasion

but

 

Recommended Settings

 

Statistics

Average FPS: 31.70

Duration: 37.16 sec

CPU Usage: 90%

System memory usage: 75%

Video memory usage: 71%

 

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1440 x 900 (75 Hz)

Texture Quality: Medium

Render Quality: High

View Distance: 25

Detail Distance: 37

 

Hardware

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Service Pack 3

Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

Video Driver version: 6.14.10.6891

Audio Adapter: Realtek HD Audio output

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+

 

File ID: Benchmark.cli

 

 

and forced everything Low

 

Statistics

Average FPS: 41.11

Duration: 37.19 sec

CPU Usage: 87%

System memory usage: 67%

Video memory usage: 46%

 

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 800 x 600 (56 Hz)

Texture Quality: Low

Render Quality: Low

View Distance: 1

Detail Distance: 1

 

It didnt do anything IMO

 

 

 

[camdean]

I still get the REC10 memory crash thing, on auto settings, and I even lowered my GPU memory options to go green !

 

Ahh well, the patch will surely fix this

[mindbreaker]

Nah, I didn't get any improvement. The texture bugs also did not disappear. I could have stayed with the beta drives.

 

 

mindbreaker

[Marsmillo]

No special mind blowing FPS improvements in GTAIV, for me. Not that I was expecting something after reading the release notes. Maby a hotfix or other driver update from ATI will bring more optimization's for GTAIV.

 

But still got a 2 a 3 fps increase in the GTAIV benchmark tool thing and less frame drops ingame. The overall play looks smoother for me with the new drivers. So I think future driver releases will bring more happy moments. Also I'm curious to watch the upcoming Rockstar patch will bring us.

[Gvilka]

1~2 fps increase, nothing really special, release notes don't say anything about IV, hope 9.1 will be better and R* patch will provide what I expected the game to be...