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Did you read the review on the other page as far as description?
CAP 10.8a - ATI CrossFireX Application Profile 10.8a Performance | [H]ard|OCPAMD provided us with a new CrossFireX Application Profile today that its claims fixes and improves scaling with CrossFireX performance, particular in two titles, Aliens vs. Predator and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
It's written mainly for improving performance with Crossfire setups. Notice that review centers on two recent game titles as well not the older games were the problems are being seen.
Whie it may be a fix for the recent when only one card is present it was never intended to address the OpenGL issues people are now seeing with the older ones.
Found this Website does a pretty impartial 'assessment' of Catalyst drivers each month and double checks AMD? claims for improvements each month.
Also recommends for last two months, to stick with 10.4's!
ATI Catalyst 10.8 Windows 7 Driver Analysis Final Thoughts :: TweakTown USA Edition
They started with a large change seen with the 10.5 version and still haven't seen everything worked out yet from the looks of things.
"frame rates be none and gaming not be non existant" would be a better analogy for those running older titles. That article recommends going back to the 10.4a or 10.5 where the problems began in the first place.
Apparently in the rush to outpace NVidia's SLI they missed on the more basic elements as far as gamers are concerned. Now to see them bounce back from this over the next few.
September 8, 2010
10.8b Hotfix
Information
ATI Catalyst 10.8b Hotfix Features:
- ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 use both Graphics Processing Units (GPU) for high performance
- Ubisoft H.A.W.X 2 with forced on Anisotropic Filtering (AF) using ATI Catalyst Control Center can improve performance
GPU-77: ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.8b Hotfix
That will be a help for some people. Here's the notation on this one.
Note! This hotfix is provided as is and is not supported by AMD. It has not completed full AMD testing and is only a driver update.
Applicable Products:
This article applies to the following configuration(s):
- Hardware
- ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 series of products
- ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 series of products
- Software
- ATI Catalyst Control Center
- Ubisoft H.A.W.X 2
- Operating System
- Windows 7 32-bit Edition
- Windows 7 64-bit Edition
- Windows Vista 32-bit Edition
- Windows Vista 64-bit Edition
That should hopefully make a lot of disgruntled 4870x2 users happy. They've been screwed for months.
I'm still stuck with the 10.4 here for the time being and certainly now the feeling of being in the same club they have been in. At least that will solve their hardware side of things with that.
I have a problem with this, when I start up my PC I get this "WARNING" saying:
"The Catalyst Control Center is not supported by the driver version of your enabled graphics adapter. Please update your ATI graphics driver, or enable your ATI adapter using the Displays Manager."
I tried both things, but couldn't find the options to do so.
I looked at the link in this thread, but none of the options give me to chose for the videocard I use (NVIDIA GeForce GT 240).
What do I do?