ATI 4.3's

[cavity]

I havent been following the driver issue for awhile, has anybody tried the latest drivers from ATI?  I have the 3.10 I think, it has been a long time, whatever version fixed the flicker I stayed with.  Anyone have a good experience with the newer drivers, are they even worth messing with?

[Delta_]

The 4.3 driver is good.  It offers increased performance.  It is the best driver yet.  I have a link in my sig which i keep up to date for the latest official catalysts.

[VPA_KTPA]

Its working great for me.

[Joe_D]

I`ve had the 4.3s installed for a couple of days now with no problems so far.

9800 pro

[cavity]

Thanks for the good news.  Ill get them today and let you know how things go.

[JBaymore]

Joe, Cavity, and all......

I just upgraded from the Cat 3.9's to the 4.3's today.  Used the driver cleaner that has been mentiones here before AFTER using ATI's uninstall routines.  It got about a dozen files that ATI's uninstall left behind.

So far no problems with the new drivers.  But also no apparent increase in performance at all on my ATI 9800XT card.  

Still getting terrible fps and stutters no matter what I try in dense settings.  I just don't understand how people here with lesser machines can say that they have everything maxed and are getting 30 fps and no stutters in dense situations  ???.  It's still got me baffled.

best,

...................john

[JVC_systems]

JBaymore,
I was also wondering about that

[Delta_]

JBaymore you using SDRAM or DDR RAM?

[cavity]

I put in the 4.3 last night.  While it improved other games, it has, like many other drivers versions before, decreased my performance slightly for 2004.  I cannot fathom why my performance is not what I expected.  I have done just about everything I can, and all of the suggestions here, but to no avail.  I do keep FPS locked at 21 with most settings on high, so I cant complain.  It is just frustrating to fly into LAX and see frames of 11 and stuttering.  I have a Pent 4, 2.6ghz, 800 mhz front side bus, Soyo dragon plus2 motherboard, 1 gig 3200 DDR, 9600 pro, and 80gig, 7200 rpm harddrive.  I have installed all the latest drivers for everything, updated the bios, etc, but performance is still less than expected.
Im not going to keep complaining, this subject has gone around a million times before, I just hope that someday I can get this to run the way I thought it would.  Thanks to all of those who have tried to help.  JBAy, it looks like were stuck.  Todd

[JBaymore]

Hyvry_1,

I'm running DDR.  1 gig.  


Cavity........  yeah .....I am certainly in the same boat since July.... but I went out and "upgraded the upgrade of the 9600 pro that I had already done for FS2004 up to a new 9800 XT a few weeks ago.  And it too made little difference in performance (see older threads).

I am totally baffled at the disparities in frame rates that people are getting.  There is SOME variable here that is not CPU.... RAM.....or video card dependent.  That is the only thing that explains the reports of framerates that show up here.

best,

..................john

PS:  I might have lost about 1 fps on the cat 4.3's over the cat 3.9's...... but it is hard to tell for sure.  That is my "gut" feel....... but it is too slight to be definitive.

[Delta_]

I can't work the prob out either, i get 40fps with all settings maxed @1024*768*32 and 4x AA.  I have no probs at all, no stuttering, nothing.  I will think about the problem in my free-time and see if i can find a solution.

[Joe_D]

One thing.......ACOF is very memory bandwith/data transfer intensive as we all know.
I`m currently running DDR in duel channel mode.
Also, 2 WD Raptors SATA HDDs in RAID 0

No matter what you do, you will always get some