ETF2L – Latest activity in “Got an ATI card? new 10.3a preview drivers increasing performance by up to 20%” https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/off-topic/topic-9304/ Created by Nucl34r https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/off-topic/topic-9304/page-1/?recent=158422#post=158422 warning: these are preview drivers, the Catalyst 10.3, which is the monthly updated WHQL driver, will be posted on http://game.amd.com/ website on March 24th, 2010 adds several new stuff:
ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements Display Bezel Compensation Easy-to-use wizard shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels Per-Display Color Adjust Individual Color, Brightness and Contrast controls Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays Improved Display Configuration switching Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center profile manager Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses AMD has updated it's Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye)
it also gives an increase of FPS in several games and benchmarks including Resident Evil 5 Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 3DMark Vantage Unigine 'Heaven' DX11 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat as seen on http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1253/9this[/url] revieuw more FPS increases are mentioned by ATI/AMD
Aliens vs. Predator Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products Battleforge Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Call of Duty: World at War Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Company of Heroes Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Crysis and Crysis Warhead Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products DiRT 2 Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Far Cry 2 Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Left 4 Dead & Left 4 Dead 2 Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products Resident Evil 5 Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products World in Conflict Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Note: This list is not exhaustive and more improvements are possible
driver can be downloaded here]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=off-topic&topic=9304&post=158422 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:34:22 +0100