ATI CATALYST 4.9 BETA Driver (Doom 3)

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ATI CATALYST 4.9 BETA Driver (Doom 3)

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ATI has released a beta version of their 4.9 Catalyst driver that increases the performance of Doom 3.

:arrow: http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4547.html

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Just an update on the drivers. The new drivers really do increase performance in Doom3 a lot! Download them as soon as you can!
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Post by Wolfram »

I am surprised. I had word from someone who should know it that ATi are going to rework the whole OpenGL driver code and that they will probably need half a year or so to do that.

Maybe they have just introduced some anisotropic filtering optimizations for OpenGL that were only used for DirectX in older drivers.
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Post by Wolfram »

People in german forums report between 2 (R9800) and 30 percent (X800) speed increase in Doom3 with Cat 4.9 beta. Nothing about image quality yet...
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