Comments on: ATi Driver 8.16.20

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Sun, 04 Sep 2005 07:54:13 +0000

Well, 8.12 drivers worked quite well for long time, compared to previous drivers.
8.14 was disaster for me, about 30% of normal frame rate.
8.16 works well, visualization is better and response in ut2004 (meaning tourn around and kill fast) is much better.

thanx ati.

(the only thing in ut2004 not as good as in windows directX is character shadows.. is that weakness of opengl, or somebody was just lazy?)

By:

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 07:20:42 +0000

… that ATI provides the gfx-hardware for all SGI visualization-systems (for several years now). Those things can be equipted with upto 16 render-pipes. All this runs OpenGL exclusively. So please no more “ATI is only about DirectX and shows no commitment for OpenGL”-gibberish.

Best regards…

MacSlow

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Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:14:56 +0000

With MS doing everything they can to kill opengl I wonder if ATI will ever complete their linux drivers. I’d say never…

By:

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:26:21 +0000

The ATi hardware still seems very DirectX specific to me.
How on earth are they going to make belivable Linux drivers with DirectX-oriented hardware?
Nah, I’ll keep to nVidia for the time being, but if the improvements keep coming I might consider a changeover. Their hardware seems ahead of nVidia now!

By: Trizt

Trizt — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:47:01 +0000

Just wanted to say that ATI still haven’t made any PPC drivers, seems like nVidia may be out first of the two with PPC drivers according to some close to Freescale.

By:

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:30:15 +0000

That’s the only answer, believe it!

By:

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:22:41 +0000

… do the drivers run on linux?

By:

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 04:38:56 +0000

“This release improves automatic detection of display devices when connected to an ATI graphics adapter.”

What? It doesnt detect my monitor connected to the nVidia GFX-card? OR the TV connected to the Matrox one? buuuuh

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Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:25:23 +0000

Doom 3 actually runs even slower here than it used to with 8.14.13, now down to 57% of the framerate on Windows with the same hardware. Does anyone know what actually is faster now?

By:

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:35:45 +0000

If anyone still owns an ATI card, how do these drivers work for you?

I’m wondering if they have caught up with nvidia yet.. heh.. no, not really. Just pokin fun at ya. Almost fooled you though didn’t I. Last person to take Microsoft subsidies, turn out the lights. 3rectX 0wnZ j00!

And yes, this is a troll. Thank you. Please drive through.