Joined: Aug 10, 2007 Posts: 3509 Location: Sin City, NV
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:04 am Post subject: XG Catalyst 8.12 XP
Tweakforce releases the XG Cats 8.12 for Windows XP and Vista Operating Systems. Packed with a mix of fixes and performance boosts from ATI and XG. We are hosting the files from Filefront until our database transfer is complete. As always your constructive feedback is appreciated.
With the release of ATI Catalyst 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated applications enabling ATI Stream technology for millions of ATI Radeon™ graphics processors worldwide
ATI Stream harnesses the tremendous processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for high-performance, data-intensive computations over a wide range of scientific, business and consumer applications.
ATI Stream enables the hundreds of parallel cores inside AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These capabilities will allow ATI Stream-enabled programs, for a variety of different tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with optimized performance or with new functionality.
The CAL (Compute Abstraction Layer) is now include in the Catalyst driver package. CAL is the enabling component for ATI Stream
ATI Stream application: ATI Avivo Video Converter
Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in Catalyst Control Center Basic View) to achieve incredible performance levels in video transcoding.
ATI Catalyst Control Center – Noise reduction for progressive video content:
This release of Catalyst™ introduces a new advanced video quality control: Noise Reduction for progressive video content, which removes ghosting artifacts while preserving details of the original video. The slider control can be found in the All Settings page of the Avivo Video tab found in the Catalyst Control Center.
Performance improvements:
Catalyst 8.12 Preliminary Performance Notes
Crysis + 2-7%
Crysis Warhead + 2-3%
Devil May Cry 4 + 1-6%
Far Cry 2
+ noAA scores are fixed for Crossfire configs; this is worth +20% on slower cards, and as much as 70% on faster ones
+ 5-10% gains when AA is enabled
FEAR + 2-6%
Left 4 Dead + 2-4%
Lost Planet Colonies + 3-10%, mostly in Area 2
Prey + 2-5%
STALKER Clear Sky + 5-10%, primarily on Crossfire configurations
NOTE – if you’re benchmarking Fallout 3, please be sure to disable VSYNC, as follows:
Edit the Fallout_default.ini file in the installation directory.
Change iPresentinterval=1 to iPresentinterval=0
For more information on ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 (for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 release notes.
Thank you!, will be testing these vs the now old xg 8.10 drivers which were the best drivers I have EVER used for my x850xt agp card, for games such as world of warcraft, and CSS. Used the so called best drivers 5.13s, all the way through Omega, NGO, DH zero point, and so on. Nothing comes close to what I get from your drivers.
http://www.hwupgrade.it/download/lista/188.html
Btw here is a site i found that hosts some of your older drivers that I was testing with my x850xt since I couldn't find em on here. _________________ --------------
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X850XT AGP
OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Platinum
74GB 10K RPM Raptor HD
ASUS P5P-SE
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Joined: Aug 17, 2007 Posts: 579 Location: Northern Michigan
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject:
AGP drivers for the latest Catalyst are kind of freaky. I chatted with one of the ATI devs before about it. Quite often the new ones will work fine on the older cards, it's the 2600 and 3800 series that has most of the issues with AGP. Problem is, ATI never made a AGP 3800 series video card, they are all made by 3rd party builders like Sapphire, which is what I have. I'm still using the official ATI AGP hotfix 8.10's, they haven't even released a 8.11 yet with the AGP Hotfix. I'm rebuilding a Sony Vaio right now, hopefully soon I will finally break free of this AGP system.
meanordljato:
Does it game? You installed them and you have to ask that question? The answer should be right in front of you! If you have the drivers installed, try playing a game or two, quit waiting. Just make sure you test both an OpenGL and a DirectX game.
My main (and only) gaming question I have about ATI and drivers is why I cannot enable Shader 2.0++ in CoR:Escape from Butcher Bay. It's in one of the log files in the game that my hareware does not support the necessary shader. I beg to differ, a 3850 can crank out any damn shader a game has. _________________ (case)Sony Vaio VGC-RC310G, 550w Antec NeoPower
Gigabyte EG41MF-S2H mobo
Intel Core2Duo E6400 (2.67Ghz)
4GB Kingston HyperX DDR2, 5-5-5-18 (PC2 8500)
(I love my)X-Fi Titanium Fata1ity PCI-e, Logitech 5.1 speakers
EVGA GeForce GTS 250, nVidia (rock solid)197.45 drivers
Pinnacle PCTV HD PCI card(TV Time!)
WD 300GB 16MB cache SATA/3 HDD
WD 500GB 16MB cache SATA/3 HDD
(useless)Matshita Blu-Ray drive, BD-MLT SW-5582
(even more useless)Sony DVD ROM drive DDU1615
ViewSonic VX2245 22"LCD monitor(Ooh, pretty colors!)
Vista Business 32bit, SP2 (S'ok)
I AdBlock Anime pictures.
Last edited by Rosco_CoF on Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:53 pm; edited 1 time in total
No I'm sorry I have not installed the drivers and I'm afraid to do so since something fucked up my gpu (vga-card) once and I'm afraid drivers without agp hotfix is what fux it up.
So has anyone tried playing games with these? As far as I understand from the reply two boxes up it might not be possible?
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. It's been quite sometime that TF was down.
