ATI has solved my no1 issue...

[risod]

For me, the worst thing about owning a Rad8500 the latest months has not been any of the usual complaints (no vsync, refresh rate, incompability) and so on. No, my card has performed great since day one. However, downloading the newest drivers has been a real pain in the butt! Waiting for days on hosed servers crawling at 5Kb/s is not acceptable. Well, ATI has really gotten their act together. Yesterday I downloaded the DX9 parts at 1 Mb/s, today I got Cat 2.4 at 700Kb/s. I hope it stays this way, for me thats a big part of good customer support.

As a side note I have to give credit to the community for mirroring and spreading the goods when ATI has failed to deliver in the past.

The conclusion is, my 8500 is growing to be one of my all time favourite hardware items. Performance to prize is outstanding, latest driver releases are near perfection (just a few issues left) and now I can download them just hours after release at good speed. Thanks ATI.

/R

[travbrad1001]

amen

[otheipion]

Re: ATI has solved my no1 issue...

Originally posted by risod
For me, the worst thing about owning a Rad8500 the latest months has not been any of the usual complaints (no vsync, refresh rate, incompability) and so on. No, my card has performed great since day one. However, downloading the newest drivers has been a real pain in the butt! Waiting for days on hosed servers crawling at 5Kb/s is not acceptable. Well, ATI has really gotten their act together. Yesterday I downloaded the DX9 parts at 1 Mb/s, today I got Cat 2.4 at 700Kb/s. I hope it stays this way, for me thats a big part of good customer support.

As a side note I have to give credit to the community for mirroring and spreading the goods when ATI has failed to deliver in the past.

The conclusion is, my 8500 is growing to be one of my all time favourite hardware items. Performance to prize is outstanding, latest driver releases are near perfection (just a few issues left) and now I can download them just hours after release at good speed. Thanks ATI.

/R

I agree with your sentiments (I thoroughly enjoy my 8500, too), but please tell me why you downloaded "dx9 parts", as you call them. Your card doesn't support them!

[kbleft]

new tweaks available in the control panel

[risod]

I agree with your sentiments (I thoroughly enjoy my 8500, too), but please tell me why you downloaded "dx9 parts", as you call them. Your card doesn't support them!

Seeing those Vsync-sliders in the CP made it worth it. I do prefer official stuff so Im running Cat 2.4 now and I miss them already. I know now that Cat 2.5 will be totally awesome.

/R

[Y-STU-K]

Originally posted by risod
Seeing those Vsync-sliders in the CP made it worth it. I do prefer official stuff so Im running Cat 2.4 now and I miss them already. I know now that Cat 2.5 will be totally awesome.

/R

vsync sliders WTF? we are talking about the 6200 offical drivers yes? cause i don't have them !!!

But yes the drivers are near pefection just need to sort out 3D Studio MAX close bug and the disapearing brush bug in GTKRadiant and WooHoo they'll rule supream

[risod]

Nope, vsync-sliders can be revealed by regediting the DX9RC0 drivers. I had them installed for a day or so. I had no issues with them but I prefer official drivers so I downloaded 6200.

/R

[peroni]

Here's how to enable vsync slider with catalyst 02.4

http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7043

There are also info on how to enable the extended overlay menu.
I just put togheter several registry tweaks found here and there

[KraZy_SkitZy]

Re: ATI has solved my no1 issue...

Originally posted by risod



The conclusion is, my 8500 is growing to be one of my all time favourite hardware items. Performance to prize is outstanding, latest driver releases are near perfection (just a few issues left) and now I can download them just hours after release at good speed. Thanks ATI.

/R

The Original ATI Radeon 64mb DDR VIVO will be my favorite for years to come.