BOYS, catalyst 8.12

[[MM]]

Maybe they should change that "significant performance improvements" line in the news on the gta4.net

 

I got 2-3fps ... veeeery significant

[Spyre]

Thats still a 10% improvement for most people, better than nothing.

[rud]

The new drivers seems to have fixed my freezing problem, the game used to lockup at least once a minute, sometimes much more, and would stay frozen for anywhere between 1-5 seconds. Occasionally I could blindly grope around task manager and kill the gtaiv.exe process, other times the whole machine would need to be rebooted.

 

So far in the minimal testing I've done with 8.12 I don't have these freezes. I never had tried the beta drivers myself.

[Chevyboy]

' date='Dec 10 2008, 18:17'] Maybe they should change that "significant performance improvements" line in the news on the gta4.net

 

I got 2-3fps ... veeeery significant

Considering this driver update was more or less completed BEFORE GTA4 was released, that's not bad at all.

 

This was 1 of a 2 part driver update that promised significant performance boost. The other being 9.1 coming early next year, considering this updated added roughly 5-15% increases across the board and 9.1 was said to have "even more gaming performance than 8.12" if in the end we wind up with 9.1 being 10-25% across the board higher performance than 8.11 was, I'd say we did well.

 

That said, MOST of GTA4's issues are client side (see R* needs to patch) not driver related.

[ah0i.bRAuSe]

i got +0.10 fps in the benchmark and -3 to 5 fps ingame !! significant improvement.. right thats nice -.-

[crowstwo]

ATI 8.12 SUX major balls!!! Every since i installed i got -5FPS, and now the text has gone for ammo, and the name of the cars

[santaclaws]

8.10 drivers (default settings)

 

Statistics

Average FPS: 42.45

Duration: 37.27 sec

CPU Usage: 93%

System memory usage: 51%

Video memory usage: 75%

 

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)

Texture Quality: Medium

Render Quality: High

View Distance: 25

Detail Distance: 37

 

Hardware

Microsoft® Windows Vista" Ultimate

Service Pack 1

Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

Video Driver version: 7.14.10.618

Audio Adapter: Speakers (Creative SB Audigy 4 (WDM))

Intel® Core2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz

 

File ID: benchmark.cli

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8.12 drivers (default settings)

 

Statistics

Average FPS: 40.26

Duration: 37.19 sec

CPU Usage: 95%

System memory usage: 54%

Video memory usage: 100%

 

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)

Texture Quality: High

Render Quality: High

View Distance: 32

Detail Distance: 70

 

Hardware

Microsoft® Windows Vista" Ultimate

Service Pack 1

Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

Video Driver version: 7.14.10.630

Audio Adapter: Speakers (Creative SB Audigy 4 (WDM))

Intel® Core2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz

 

File ID: benchmark.cli

 

Notice that texture quality is now high and view/detail distance are also higher than with 8.10 drivers

 

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Intel E8400 @ 3.6GHz

Radeon HD 4870 512MB (790/1000)

Asus Maximus II Formula

4GB G.Skill F2-6400CL4D-4GBPK

SB Audigy 4 / Sennheiser PC150 Headset

Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 250GB SATA, Hitachi Deskstar T7K270 200GB SATA

Seasonic S12-500W

Samsung SyncMaster 226BW 22"

Logitech UltraX Keyboard, Razer DeathAdder mouse

Coolermaster Stacker Case

OS: Windows Ultimate x64 SP1

[immot]

For me they didn't change the benchmark FPS, I haven't played with them yet.

[Ivarrr]

My guess is they're going to add a GTAIV hotfix in a couple days like they did with FC2

[Steppzor]

No no no no no.. ive had it.. still cant play this game.. still freezes, still have to hardboot my computer.

 

Im going for a refund of my money from steam.

[ECH]

 

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?

It sures does, specially when he never posted:

PC specs

OS used

if he properly uninstalled the old drivers 1st

whether or not he is also using a 4rd party program for his video card

what kind of video card he has

did he tweak something in CCC

etc

 

In all honestly for all we know this could be user error.

 

 

Edit:

 

 

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

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

Oh wait, it was user error.

Edited December 10, 2008 by ECH

[axtc]

As far as I remember ATI never said anything about GTA4 performance or bugs, so I think it's normal for us not to see any improvments on this Cat. release. Just remember that was the bullsh*t fed to us by official R* spokesperson. So R* is to blame for this situation. They said with the new ATI drivers we would see an improvement.

[Vicetopia]

As far as I remember ATI never said anything about GTA4 performance or bugs, so I think it's normal for us not to see any improvments on this Cat. release. Just remember that was the bullsh*t fed to us by official R* spokesperson. So R* is to blame for this situation. They said with the new ATI drivers we would see an improvement.

He's a R* spokesperson, not an ATI spokesperson.

When he tells you to expect a performance increase with new ATI drivers, why would you believe him?

[immot]

Is it true that vista members can simply install new ATI drivers over the old ones (not go to safe mode run gazillion programs there and reboot their computer 63827 times)?

[axtc]

 

He's a R* spokesperson, not an ATI spokesperson.

When he tells you to expect a performance increase with new ATI drivers, why would you believe him?

 

The thing is I didn't but from what I read on this topic it seemed like people were expecting that improvement. So I was just stating the facts. Ppl shouldn't blame ATI for this, that's another screw up on R* part.

Edited December 10, 2008 by axtc

[ECH]

 

Is it true that vista members can simply install new ATI drivers over the old ones (not go to safe mode run gazillion programs there and reboot their computer 63827 times)?

I would use ATI uninstall program whenever uninstall ATI drivers. Bottom line, no ifs, ands or buts about it.

I simple go to: X:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\UninstallAll

and uninstall my old cats, reboot then install the new cat drivers (reboot if it tells me to). It's as simple as that people!!!

[Stewerd]

No no no no no.. ive had it.. still cant play this game.. still freezes, still have to hardboot my computer.

 

Im going for a refund of my money from steam.

You'll be really pissed when we got the patch and it runs smooth.

 

THE GAME IS GOING TO WORK JUST GIVE IT A LITTLE TIME.

[Steppzor]

No no no no no.. ive had it.. still cant play this game.. still freezes, still have to hardboot my computer.

 

Im going for a refund of my money from steam.

You'll be really pissed when we got the patch and it runs smooth.

 

THE GAME IS GOING TO WORK JUST GIVE IT A LITTLE TIME.

Well, i'll rather get my 50$ back and buy a game that i can play and have some fun with, and maybe i'll think about buying this again next week on payday.. but just maybe

[infamyice]

I'ma play it smart and hold out on it.

I'ma wait for some results from people who played the game with the patch using this catalyst.

Can't afford to f*ck up my laptop (even though I backed it up, but who's saying that my pc will give me the chance to restore if it messes up).

[Rickzu]

8.12 gave me a little boost in fps, I haven't run the benchmark yet because I think it's a stupid way to judge the game's performance.

 

I do my judgement in actual gameplay, and for me it reduced texture pop-up etc. and made the game run a bit smoother. I'm satisfied for now (it ran well enough before, bit better now), still waiting for the patch and january driver update.

[Pew]

ATI 8.12 SUX major balls!!! Every since i installed i got -5FPS, and now the text has gone for ammo, and the name of the cars

Same here, it f*cking sucks.

[pLaTaNo]

Question: Do these new drivers also work with the HD 3850 512MB version?

[Mulder]

I installed new drivers.

 

Yes, it is definately better now, although I was also lucky week ago, when I installed gta4. No big problems. The interesting thing was, that the game started with new graphic settings. They were much higher than the ones I was playing with, but the framerate is same. There was some flickering before and the problem has almost gone away.

[Turdist]

These drivers make my system restart itself as it loads windows. over and over and over and over.....

 

so I cant install them ? wtf?!

[antd]

EXCELLENT - Fixed the mad graphical glitches I was getting. The game is now playable for me

[Rautapalli]

 

ATI 8.12 SUX major balls!!! Every since i installed i got -5FPS, and now the text has gone for ammo, and the name of the cars

Same here, it f*cking sucks.

That happens after running the benchmark, doesn't have anything to do with the drivers.

Just restart GTA and DON'T run the benchmark, then they will be visible again.

 

Everytime you run the benchmark, all the text like that is gone in singleplayer.

 

And it didn't seem to really give any FPS boost, but it feels like it's running smoother now.

[Stewerd]

Guess what.No more waiting. Go and get it now!

 

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML

 

and i hope this can really improve my gta4 experience...

the game crashes at the 5th minute after i turn it on.

Hm, what cards are included in the 4830 series?

4850, 4870, and 4870x2 is the 4800 series but i have never seen any 4830 card.

[Turdist]

These drivers make my system restart itself as it loads windows. over and over and over and over.....

 

so I cant install them ? wtf?!

anyone else get this?

[radeonhd]

Incredible, in its sopport page rockstar says catalyst 8.12 will increase performance, instead the official patch, incredible...

 

this drivers doesn't change anything

 

[alexx2]

Stick to 8.11 works like a charm, even worked well with older drivers but it must be my kicka*s video card, 256 mb HD3650 baby lol

 

Edited December 10, 2008 by alexx2