Catalysts 8.4 finally arrived

SpeedZone · Rated NC-17 Joined: 06 Apr 2008 Posts: 193

Good news for Dr. Feelgood and all others who complained about low 3DMark06 scores lately. Grin

ATI/AMD finally released Catalyst 8.4, which (among other issues) also fixes Performance drop in 3DMark05 & 06 (at least under WinXP - nothing mentioned about Vista yet).

I'll give it a try later in the day and will get back to you with 3DMark06 results, so we'll be able to see/check/compare old and new scores. Wink

Also, Dr.Feelgood....now its best time to retest that ASUS 3870 (the already reviewed one), and see if it scores any better. Grin

Cyaaaaaaaaaaa all Wave

Link to 8.4 version for WinXP : http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonx-xp Wink

EDIT:
This version could easily be named "EMPTY PROMISES 8.4", because believe it or not...all i gained by installing it in 3DMark06 was....are you ready?....rather sit down somewhere....take a deep breath...and....voila....5....yes....thats not countdown to 0....but 5 (FIVE) points more! At exactly the same settings. Bang Head

And when i compared actual framerates of each test...I noticed that there were actually a slight drops - around 0.3 FPS (so nothing serious to worry about, but still...), at both SM2.0 tests (GT1 and GT2)....and some even slighter gains in SM3.0 tests (HDR1 & 2) of around 0.1 or less FPS.

So overall..losses are bigger than gains...and the only reasonable explaination that at the end i got those 5 extra points...would in my opinion be, that in CPU tests i scored around 0.05 FPS more than with Catalysts 8.3 (although cpu score probably doesnt have anything with catalysts at all). Confused

Waiting to hear your results and comments... Wave