Beta ATI drivers, 12.4 giving gains in gpu useage and framerate.

Rfactor 2 seems alot better now with these drivers. I noticed higher gpu useage (92%) which was quite alot more than before, yay.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/347950-15-catalyst-beta

Please tell me if you notice this too I have a Ati HD 7950 card.

tara for now

 

With 3GB you must be kicking arse at 92%

 

are these the beta's that have been out since 15th march? or some new ones?

 

these drivers improved the performance very good, like the stuttering and fps.

 

AMD Catalyst 12.4 Beta 8.96 15 March
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 3:10 AM in Drivers

Driver Packaging Version: 8.96-120315a-135399E
2D Driver Version: 8.01.01.1243
Direct3D Version:7.14.10.0903
OpenGL Version: 6.14.10.11627
Catalyst Control Center Version: 2012.0315.1621.27344
Catalyst Version: 12.4

 

ok thanks, i already have these then (thought they might have a been a new fixed version), as the gpu clocks were broken on mine, the gpu didn't throttle back from 3d speed to 2d when not using 3d, so I took them off and stayed with the 8.95.5, ehich seem just as good on the HD6950
but will look forward to the full release of the 12.4's from ATI soon

 

Does this work for XP? If there is a separate version can someone point me in the right direction?

 

I'll give them a go and will let you know...

Thanks!


EDIT: Installed them and everything seemed the same. (7970 3GB)

 

i don't see mega-improvement. 5850 1gb here

 

I saw no in improvement at all it was worse for me I was getting 30fps and I tried this and it dropped to 12fps.

6870 2gbmem

 

interesting....i didn't get a fps drop

 

After playing a couple of days with the beta, I have to correct my previous comment and agree with the above. Almost all games are kind off jittering. I had done a restore point and when I restored to my previous one all came fine.

Sorry, don't know about your issue JKA, have same card as you but still with one monitor for time being.

Cheers

 

Are the 8.95.5 drivers the 12.3? I am on the 12.2s now, and they perform ok for me with my 6950,. but if the 12.3 are much better, I may just try them...

 

Yes the 8.95.5 show up as 12.3 in ccc

 

yeah after some big testing i've noticed some flickering too. going back to the old set!

 

I have extremely bad performance with my system (Intel i5 2500k, Radeon 6950 crossfire, 8GB RAM) tested 12.3 today and absolutely no difference. When driving at Spa I have 60-70 fps when I have no other car in front of me. But if there is maybe 2 cars in front of me my fps is 30-50. When driving out of the pit its about 20 fps but feels like 10.

Starting a race is impossible, because at the start grid its like 1 frame per second and I crasch immedialtely. It won't work any better if I turn Crossfire off either. I know it's just beta so i hope it get better, it have to. With my system and the graphics of this game, there should be no problem to drive with max settings. Now i have some high, some medium. AA level 3 and MXAA off...

 

Yeah, I have the same issues. The biggest FPS killer are the shadows. Put shadows to low or medium and you should see a huge difference.

Cheers

 

I already set shadows to medium, but I'll try with low then

 

What's up man, try turning aa to off and turning fxaa on and see if that takes care of aliasing enough for you, if not try level 1 with fxaa on or level 2 with fxaa on, I'm assuming level 3 is 8x for your cards which can be a bit stressfull at times. Also, turn off all ingame aa including fxaa, turn off all control panel aa (those should have already been off anyways), and just turn on mlaa (morphological). In simple terms mlaa is amd/ati's version of fxaa but in most cases fxaa runs quite a bit quicker, and sometimes fxaa blurs textures more and sometimes mlaa does, depends on the game, so give mlaa a shot, let me know