New Catalyst 5.6 to give big boost to PC games - Overclock.net

thenut · 05-31-05

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ATI'S CATALYST team managed to do a great job in the past few quarters. These guys were working hard to improve software support and month by month the team has managed to release a new Catalyst driver. It improves some compatibility and other options with every single revision. While most of ATI's driver updates are just bug fixes, this time ATI will give you a much needed free performance increase, coming with the new Catalyst 5.6 driver.

ATI will soon introduce its Catalyst 5.6 driver and we have the feeling that this might happen on the seventh of June, we might be wrong about the date, it's not yet specific but you never know.

Once you install this new driver you should see around ten per cent plus performance increase in 3Dmark05, Aquamark 3 and Halo and Tomb Raider: AOD games and benchmarks. ATI did this by using some Z optimisations, removing unseen pixels before running through the pixel shaders. I guess that this is an allowed method and Halo might be running even fifteen per cent faster.

The Chronicles of Riddick will work up to fifteen per cent faster than with the old Catalyst 5.5 drivers and ATI did more efficient storage of vertex data and gained some performance that way too.

Doom 3 will work almost twenty per cent faster than with Catalyst 5.5 as ATI made more efficient use of memory.

Even games such as Call of Duty will benefit from this new driver as the driver team managed to increase the game efficiency resulting in close to ten per cent faster performance.

The game that will benefit the most is Lock on: Modern Air combat where you will be able to see an incredible fifty per cent performance increase just by installing a new 5.6 Catalyst driver.

ATI catalyst AI enables texture compression of the clouds resulting with no visual impact and massive performance impact at the same time. Sounds good to us if it works like described. We know that Nvidia test team will definitely try to find any image quality flaws and problems and scream to the rest of the world if it found any difference. We would do it too so let's hope that all is correct here.

The new Catalyst comes in just a few days, it's free and I recommend you get it, if you have an ATI card, and enjoy it.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23594

Jori · 05-31-05

Impressive.

metalman2785 · 05-31-05

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Originally Posted by Jori

Impressive.

Thanks for the news man, I always here this stuff first from you. Maybe if those gains are ture I should be able to break 80,000 in Aquamark, and 7,000 in 3d mark05 !!!!

SPHERE · 05-31-05

what the heck how do u get this info so fast

well i cant wait ither because the major things that i play are up there doom halo and 3dm05

i think this boost may be enough to tie the ati cards with the nvidias in doom well guess that means nvidia has even more catching up to do

h3iki · 05-31-05

10% in 3dmark :O

fook me ill be getting close to damn SLi systems now

and the gaming opportunities will be fun too

**Xavier1421** · 05-31-05

SWEEET system

When you gonna post some benchies?!

(and update your rig showcase!)

Back on topic for me..(I'm having quite a day! lol)

ATI needs to settle down with the drivers! It seems like I have to update my cats everytime I start up my computer

MAXX · 05-31-05

should i get the 5.6 driver even if i have a MSI 9800pro

SPHERE · 05-31-05

^yes the newer drivers sometimes have tweaks for the older cards too

chocobo15_2000 · 06-07-05

i don't see the 5.6 drivers on the ati website, is there another place to dl it?

SPHERE · 06-07-05

^they arnt out yet just wait....

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SPHERE ATI Enthusiast Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 6,214 Rep: 743 Unique Rep: 330 FAQs Submitted: 17 Folding Team Rank: 1218 Hardware Reviews: 14 Trader Rating: 4	^yes the newer drivers sometimes have tweaks for the older cards too Last edited by SPHERE : 06-07-05 at 09:25 PM.

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New Catalyst 5.6 to give big boost to PC games

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SPHERE ATI Enthusiast Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 6,214 Rep: 743 Unique Rep: 330 FAQs Submitted: 17 Folding Team Rank: 1218 Hardware Reviews: 14 Trader Rating: 4	what the heck how do u get this info so fast well i cant wait ither because the major things that i play are up there doom halo and 3dm05 i think this boost may be enough to tie the ati cards with the nvidias in doom well guess that means nvidia has even more catching up to do

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SPHERE ATI Enthusiast Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 6,214 Rep: 743 Unique Rep: 330 FAQs Submitted: 17 Folding Team Rank: 1218 Hardware Reviews: 14 Trader Rating: 4	^they arnt out yet just wait....

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