ATI Catalyst 5.12

[Steve]

It's the last Catalyst driver suite release of the year (maybe...), but what does it provide?

According to ATI's release notes a number of programs experience performance improvements in the latest driver release, most notably Far Cry, which ATI say yields 25% boosts in some circumstances. These performance increases, however, are mainly from new dual-core optimisations. As such, hyperthreaded and dual-core processors only will benefit. The degree by which you'll benefit depends on your system and how CPU-bound the game is as a result.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4085

[Bull Dog]

ATi Quake 4 cards are performing on par with with Nvidia's according to xBit Labs's recent review.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...ames-2005.html

[Ionix1]

Does anyone know if they've fixed the Catalyst AI optimization for F.E.A.R. where they got an IF statement the wrong way round? Hope so cos I should finally getting it today .

[Smokey21]

Does anyone know if they've fixed the Catalyst AI optimization for F.E.A.R. where they got an IF statement the wrong way round? Hope so cos I should finally getting it today .

Who cares, just turn off A.I.

[Ionix1]

Who cares, just turn off A.I.

I could but in the demo I got a 15fps increase with A.I. on. It just doesn't work for the full game cos of the bug so hopefully they've fixed it.