This seems to be very weird, anyone who can give this a try?
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PRIME1 said:Probably not a big deal really.
Bulletproof said:i remember reading a while ago that renaming the exe has something to do with HDR
gostriker said:These guys seem to be suggesting it works to some degree for all ati cards. Don't have the game so can't try it.
V99 said:So what your saying I could crack my 9600XT from 800x600 to 1600x1200?
SPARTAN VI said:But there is no HDR feature in FEAR... I mean, the game is taxing as is... add HDR for the KO.
Makes me wonder how many "driver bugs" have been fixed, and introduced as "performance improvements", which inspired us to praise the almighty video card gods?rage3d said:
Originally Posted by CATALYST MAKER
Its a "bug" in that we simply got an IF statement backwards . Thanks for pointing this out to us, you have just helped us get a big performance gain. Of course there is no difference in the rendering, its just a CATALYST AI game specific optimization that was good for the demo version, but backfired in the final version. We will get it sorted out in a future Catalyst (not 5.11 which is being posted tomorrow by the way).
jebo_4jc said:Makes me wonder how many "driver bugs" have been fixed, and introduced as "performance improvements", which inspired us to praise the almighty video card gods?
You would think the Cat team would have caught this ~20% performance loss before they released the driver....
wait what driver does this apply to? any?
either way the extra preformance is there and thats what matters. 20-30% is a lotViolator said:You'd think wouldn't you
Now the question is, was this going to be a 'ooo look at this performance boost' in the 5.12s, or will they now simply roll out a 'hot-fix for the "bug"' for the 5.11s
What are you telling us? That ATI has a poor driver development team?Brent_Justice said:not in Cat 5.11's though
i hope they don't wait for Cat 5.12 to release the fix, this needs a Cat 5.11"a" "hotfix" version now
purefun65 said:What are you telling us? That ATI has a poor driver development team?
i couldnt agree more.Brent_Justice said:lol, where did you get that from
no, i'm saying IMO they shouldn't wait to put this fix in Cat 5.12, this is something that a 'hotfix' driver would do nicely before then, because a lot of people are playing FEAR NOW, and this would help their gaming experience
Brent_Justice said:lol, where did you get that from
no, i'm saying IMO they shouldn't wait to put this fix in Cat 5.12, this is something that a 'hotfix' driver would do nicely before then, because a lot of people are playing FEAR NOW, and this would help their gaming experience
Violator said:Brent, a (hopefully non-flame) question here. Do you think this was a genuine 'oversight' in the driver, or a future 'optimisation' that's been discovered early. The performance margin is quite large which makes me wonder really.
I'm not flaming you. I wanted a clearer definition of your statement. I got one TYBrent_Justice said:lol, where did you get that from
no, i'm saying IMO they shouldn't wait to put this fix in Cat 5.12, this is something that a 'hotfix' driver would do nicely before then, because a lot of people are playing FEAR NOW, and this would help their gaming experience
Brent_Justice said:According to Terry it was a bug. They got an IF statement backward.
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showpost.php?p=621206&postcount=66