Eric Williams was the first to write in informing us that ATI has released a new set of their drivers for Radeon 8500 series and above video cards. Changes in this release include:
Fixed Crash with Savage from S2Games
RHEL 3.0 support
Improved FSAA
Support for MOBILITY FireGL T2 support
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December 31st, 2003 at 12:36 am
Where’s the drivers that give me a framerate?
Seriously. My GeForce 3 Ti 500 achieved 200+ fps, my radeon is lucky to hit 150+ fps in timedemos. WTF?
December 31st, 2003 at 1:03 am
It’s unplayble using 3.7.0 driver…time to go back to 3.2.8 and hope next release after XFree86 4.4.0 is out will work.
December 31st, 2003 at 8:58 am
It’s nice to see that ATI is taking an interest in releasing updates to the Linux drivers. I think it’s about time for me to order an 9500 or 9600 to replace my current aging videocard.
Some people talk about performance, mentioning that it isn’t quite on par with the Windows versions. How is stability though?
December 31st, 2003 at 9:23 am
These drivers have a drop in performance (about 30% less). They are supposed to be a polishing before increasing perfs, but for the moment, back to 3.2.8.
December 31st, 2003 at 10:44 am
The 2nd point is, the engine I contribute to used to get 200-300fps, but now barely gets 120fps with my Radeon 9800, compared to my GF3 Ti 500. Which tells me their OpenGL ICD for Linux needs a whole lot of work.
December 31st, 2003 at 10:56 am
… wonder where they are? :) Well, I got none, but I got a nice running fglrx in Kernel 2.6.0 now. With 3.2.8 I got really bad performance with resolutions above 1024×768, and UT2k3 unplayable with 2.6.0-test6. Now, all went fine… even if I had to apply this nasty AMD-patch another time. I wonder when they will apply this small one, wich was made inofficially for 3.2.8 and 2.9.13 befor, in their official package.
January 1st, 2004 at 12:24 am
I haven’t noticed too much performace difference between this and the earlier but my system been so-so as it is., I have a AMD Athelon XP with a Nforce 2 chipset Motherboard and a Radeon 9700 pro. I finally got the nforce GART driver to work and finally got 3D Acceleration to work. But UT2k3 is almost unplayable, it also seems to run faster at the higher the resolutions 1600×1200 is a little more smoother than 800×600 or even 640×480, but still stinks. Enemy territory and other quake engined games play alright. Any Thoughts?
January 1st, 2004 at 4:27 am
Can anyone tell me how to install the latest driver for my Radeon 9600. I have downloaded the correct driver already.
Thank You.
January 1st, 2004 at 12:49 pm
Anybody else got mozilla to crash by trying to download the driver?
January 1st, 2004 at 7:24 pm
Does anyone have the last version of these drivers? I tried to find them on the web but they don’t seem to exist. I tried to install the newest ones and it seems that its tainted. Meaning it would violate the GPL on my kernel if I installed them. I would like to install the earlier vesion if I could. Thanks for your help.
January 2nd, 2004 at 2:37 am
I will tell you one thing, nvidia rocks on Linux! I have two cards, nvidia geforce2 and radeon 8500. The nvidia card using the linux drivers ran flawlessly on Savage. Switch to radeon using a clean install of the linux drivers, and the characters have an annoying twitch, the spawned warriors act like they spent one hour too many in the bar and it crashes in about 30 seconds. I am splurging on a new nvidia card tommorrow so that I can play this game with performance. ATI, keep at it, you aren’t there yet.
January 2nd, 2004 at 6:43 am
I’m getting display artifacts at 1600×1200x32 when doing 3D with this driver. The artifacts go away if I temporarily switch to a lower resolution mode and then back. I also get the occasional lockup in 2D, which makes this driver as unusable as all the previous ones.
The 2.9.13 drivers are the best I’ve seen so far. They seem about 40% faster compared to any of the 3.x.x drivers.