[Driver Update] ATI Catalyst 8.2
Performance improvements with this release of Catalyst™ includes Company of Heroes DX10 frame rates increasing as much as 20% across all of the ATI Radeon™ HD 2×00 series of products and on all ATI Radeon™ HD 3×00 series of products. These performance improvements are even larger (up to 30%) for CrossFire™ configurations.
[Driver Update]a bag of ForceWare drivers up for grab!
Recently, loads of ForceWare drivers are leaked to the world wide web. The leak have multiple beta drivers and even a WHQL which certified at Febuary 2008. all of them are released by ElectronicPunk and Station Drivers. All these Drivers did not have release notes.
171.17 WHQL XP 32bit (Time stamp: 01/05/2008)
173.80 beta vista 32bit（14/01/08）
171.23 beta XP 32bit （26/01/08）
169.39 WHQL Vista 32bit （01/02/08)
comparison test: Forceware 171.16 beta & Forceware 169.25 WHQL
In “8800GT how much memory do you need?” we discussed about the in-game graphic memory usage. We know different game engine needs different size of memory. And guys at NVIDIA said the new drivers will optimize memory access algorithm, let those memory intensive game can be more smooth.
Comparsion test of Catalyst 7.11 and 7.12, huge improvment in WIC!
Test bed
We use Zero HD 2600XT in 3DMark05, and use Sapphire HD3850 in the other three games.