Catalyst 8.1 WHQL and HotFix released
New features: MultiView™ & ATI’s Folding@Home. Full list of fixed bugs can be found in the release notes as it aways be.
And the hotfix is for HD 2000/X1000 series to resolving the following issues:
- Fix for problems with DirectX and Radeon AGP Graphics cards.
- Crysis: DirectX 10 Performance optimizations using Crossfire
January 18th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Jeff could you please make a comparison test between catalyst 7.12 and 8.1? In single 3870 i would like to see benchmarks of games that run like shit on ati cards aka colin mcrae dirt,lost planet and blacksite area 51. Of course in single card 3870 i will test them myself too!
The really important thing is that if you could test in crossfire 3870 the aforementioned games which run even worse during my tests. I don’t have the second 3870 any more so please if you could do it, it would be great.
Also some other games that actually perform WORSE with TWO 3870 are the following :
bioshock,call of duty 4,trackmania united (60fps less!!),crysis,tom clancys rainbow six. Also please test dark messiah because it complete crashed with CF on my tests. Oh and the icestorm fighters demo.
Keep this list to test with the R680 once it comes out because i think many people will be interested about the results of both setups. I’m really curious if ati is actually working on the drivers or are they just kidding us!
If you can please run those test on a quad core 2. Thank you.
ps sorry for the double post
January 18th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Lightsmark 2007 would be welcomed as well! http://dee.cz/lightsmark/
The oc 3870@860 it scores about 180fps. The GTX scores at around 320! WTF? So crossfire to that please!