NEW DRIVERS 7.73 (6093) FOR ALL OS's
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Uriel
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If I try to mix and match with 6071 Windows simply wont boot.
If I install them with the provided installer I can only see the "copying files" for 1 second and then it asks me to reboot. (I however checked the files and they seem to be properly installed.)
SoF2 performance went down by 30-50%.
CS performance stayed the same but now there seems to be "hiccups".
Guess I'll wait for Omega/Cyborg to release a new version. Right now I'm only playing Open GL games so there's no hurry for me to install these as the new OGL driver sunk my SOF2 performance in an instant.
If I install them with the provided installer I can only see the "copying files" for 1 second and then it asks me to reboot. (I however checked the files and they seem to be properly installed.)
SoF2 performance went down by 30-50%.
CS performance stayed the same but now there seems to be "hiccups".
Guess I'll wait for Omega/Cyborg to release a new version. Right now I'm only playing Open GL games so there's no hurry for me to install these as the new OGL driver sunk my SOF2 performance in an instant.
Mintmaster said:
I did my best to make people reading my post fully aware that my installation of XP is a couple of months old, and not exactly optimal for benching. I also had an old install of R3Dtweak lurking about that I can't seem to get rid of, and that MAY be skewing the results. Reguardless, I'm removing the original post and will endeavor not to share any findings again in the future.
[EDIT: Well, remember I said I had an old copy of r3dtweak that I can't seem to get rid of? Well I just checked the overclocker tab and:
Dammit, what a dope I am... here I thought they were wonder drivers.
Sorry everyone who may have been mislead by my post.What's really odd as I haven't ever overclocked this particular card that high before. Why upon installing the new drivers r3dtweak got the idea to overclock the core and ram to 290 I'll never know.
I guess I just found out my card will do 290/290 without any artifacts... not exactly how I wanted to find out though. ]
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D3D and OpenGL tabs.
I haven't installed these yet, but I was thinking about these two missing tabs. I'm wondering if anyone can get them to appear if they change these registry keys:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ATI Technologies\Desktop\{7E4F004A-C19A-48C2-A34D-70B22ED43C64}]
"D3D"=hex:01,00,00,00
AND:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ATI Technologies\Desktop\{7E4F004A-C19A-48C2-A34D-70B22ED43C64}]
"OpenGL"=hex:01,00,00,00
(The number bit in the parethesis brackets might be different).
*EDIT*
Oops... I just saw James' spiel on the front page, so it seems this method is irrelevent as the display properties files aren't there to begin with...
Just ignore me... I'll go away now
I haven't installed these yet, but I was thinking about these two missing tabs. I'm wondering if anyone can get them to appear if they change these registry keys:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ATI Technologies\Desktop\{7E4F004A-C19A-48C2-A34D-70B22ED43C64}]
"D3D"=hex:01,00,00,00
AND:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ATI Technologies\Desktop\{7E4F004A-C19A-48C2-A34D-70B22ED43C64}]
"OpenGL"=hex:01,00,00,00
(The number bit in the parethesis brackets might be different).
*EDIT*
Oops... I just saw James' spiel on the front page, so it seems this method is irrelevent as the display properties files aren't there to begin with...
Just ignore me... I'll go away now
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tweakfreak
New member
not much diff here
not much diff here
DISPLAY
Platform Radeon 8500 / LE (Omega/Plutonium X1.0.71)
CPU Optimization D3D Pure Hardware T&L
Width 1024
Height 768
Depth 32 bit
Z-Buffering 24 bit
Texture Format Compressed
Buffering Double
Refresh Rate Default
FSAA Mode None
OPTIONS
Show Title Screens Yes
Continuous Benchmark No
Benchmark Run Count 1
Demo Sounds Enabled Yes
Continuous Demo No
Game Sound Effects Enabled Yes
Game Music Enabled Yes
Game Detail Level Low
RESULTS
3DMark Score 7452
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 105.1 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 42.7 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 132.3 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 76.7 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 103.6 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 50.2 fps
Game 4 - Nature 32.4 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 810.7 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1805.3 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 36.0 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 9.6 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 67.9 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 64.3 fps
Vertex Shader 60.7 fps
Pixel Shader 60.4 fps
Point Sprites 27.9 MSprites/s
SYSTEM INFO
System Info Version 2.0
Installation ID 0x00000000
OEM ID
CPU INFO
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS
Manufacturer AMD
Family Palomino
Internal Clock 1.30GHz
Internal Clock Maximum 1.30GHz
External Clock 133MHz
Socket Designation Socket A
Type Central
Upgrade ZIF Socket
Capabilities MMX, CMov, RDTSC, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE
Version Model 6, Stepping 2
CPUID 0x00000662
DISPLAY
Platform R8500
CPU Optimization D3D Pure Hardware T&L
Width 1024
Height 768
Depth 32 bit
Z-Buffering 24 bit
Texture Format Compressed
Buffering Double
Refresh Rate Default
FSAA Mode None
OPTIONS
Show Title Screens Yes
Continuous Benchmark No
Benchmark Run Count 1
Demo Sounds Enabled Yes
Continuous Demo No
Game Sound Effects Enabled Yes
Game Music Enabled Yes
Game Detail Level Low
RESULTS
3DMark Score 7466
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 106.2 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 42.8 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 132.4 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 76.5 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 104.3 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 50.2 fps
Game 4 - Nature 32.4 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 811.9 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1805.3 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 35.9 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 9.6 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 67.8 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 64.4 fps
Vertex Shader 60.8 fps
Pixel Shader 60.6 fps
Point Sprites 27.9 MSprites/s
SYSTEM INFO
System Info Version 2.0
Installation ID 0x00000000
OEM ID
CPU INFO
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS
Manufacturer AMD
Family Palomino
Internal Clock 1.30GHz
Internal Clock Maximum 1.30GHz
External Clock 133MHz
Socket Designation Socket A
Type Central
Upgrade ZIF Socket
Capabilities MMX, CMov, RDTSC, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE
Version Model 6, Stepping 2
CPUID 0x00000662
No change in fps for Quake3.
no weird stuff, have all the the taps in display properties. update driver via device manager w/out uninstalling old drivers.
cheers
not much diff here
DISPLAY
Platform Radeon 8500 / LE (Omega/Plutonium X1.0.71)
CPU Optimization D3D Pure Hardware T&L
Width 1024
Height 768
Depth 32 bit
Z-Buffering 24 bit
Texture Format Compressed
Buffering Double
Refresh Rate Default
FSAA Mode None
OPTIONS
Show Title Screens Yes
Continuous Benchmark No
Benchmark Run Count 1
Demo Sounds Enabled Yes
Continuous Demo No
Game Sound Effects Enabled Yes
Game Music Enabled Yes
Game Detail Level Low
RESULTS
3DMark Score 7452
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 105.1 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 42.7 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 132.3 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 76.7 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 103.6 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 50.2 fps
Game 4 - Nature 32.4 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 810.7 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1805.3 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 36.0 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 9.6 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 67.9 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 64.3 fps
Vertex Shader 60.7 fps
Pixel Shader 60.4 fps
Point Sprites 27.9 MSprites/s
SYSTEM INFO
System Info Version 2.0
Installation ID 0x00000000
OEM ID
CPU INFO
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS
Manufacturer AMD
Family Palomino
Internal Clock 1.30GHz
Internal Clock Maximum 1.30GHz
External Clock 133MHz
Socket Designation Socket A
Type Central
Upgrade ZIF Socket
Capabilities MMX, CMov, RDTSC, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE
Version Model 6, Stepping 2
CPUID 0x00000662
DISPLAY
Platform R8500
CPU Optimization D3D Pure Hardware T&L
Width 1024
Height 768
Depth 32 bit
Z-Buffering 24 bit
Texture Format Compressed
Buffering Double
Refresh Rate Default
FSAA Mode None
OPTIONS
Show Title Screens Yes
Continuous Benchmark No
Benchmark Run Count 1
Demo Sounds Enabled Yes
Continuous Demo No
Game Sound Effects Enabled Yes
Game Music Enabled Yes
Game Detail Level Low
RESULTS
3DMark Score 7466
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 106.2 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 42.8 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 132.4 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 76.5 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 104.3 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 50.2 fps
Game 4 - Nature 32.4 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 811.9 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1805.3 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 35.9 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 9.6 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 67.8 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 64.4 fps
Vertex Shader 60.8 fps
Pixel Shader 60.6 fps
Point Sprites 27.9 MSprites/s
SYSTEM INFO
System Info Version 2.0
Installation ID 0x00000000
OEM ID
CPU INFO
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS
Manufacturer AMD
Family Palomino
Internal Clock 1.30GHz
Internal Clock Maximum 1.30GHz
External Clock 133MHz
Socket Designation Socket A
Type Central
Upgrade ZIF Socket
Capabilities MMX, CMov, RDTSC, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE
Version Model 6, Stepping 2
CPUID 0x00000662
No change in fps for Quake3.
no weird stuff, have all the the taps in display properties. update driver via device manager w/out uninstalling old drivers.
cheers
i can confirm increase in 3d mark (aroud 200 points, but noticed lower LOD in car chase test), unreal tournament (ogl, ~5-6 FPS), and humus game engine demo - 2x quality smooothvision results minimal FPS loss. yet, 2xSV rezults in b0rked screen, when i exit it (only humus demo 2xQSV, haven't noticed it elsewhere). still b0rked: farbrausch mark&sweep 64k demo. any curved surfaces grind 8500 to 1 FPS (works flawlessly on rage 128 pro?!?!).
Fablemark is still flashing. b0rk b0rk b0rk.
all in all, there are improvements over 6071 so i think i'll keep them.
Fablemark is still flashing. b0rk b0rk b0rk.
all in all, there are improvements over 6071 so i think i'll keep them.
Jornack Hupkens
New member
/me confused....
If these are core drivers only, doesn't this mean that all the extra features are disabled by default (TruForm, A.Filtering etc)? Thus making the scores higher since the card actually does less with all the features off?
If these are core drivers only, doesn't this mean that all the extra features are disabled by default (TruForm, A.Filtering etc)? Thus making the scores higher since the card actually does less with all the features off?
Mix it with 6071 and everything is OK
Mix it with 6071 and everything is OK
Hi, I just get this driver and mix it with 6071(original), and get everything works flawlessly.
0. Get 6071 and uncompress it with WinRAR.
1. Download the 6093 driver, uncompress it, and goto BX_03929 directory. Copy all the contents to corresponding folders in 6071(Atidrive, in my case), override all the files.
2. Goto ATIINF directory, open CX_03947.inf, copy the [Version]
section. Again, goto 6071\Atidrive, open atiixpag.inf, replace the corresponding section.
3. Clean the previous driver, then use the setup.exe in 6071 to install the new driver.
After this, you should get all the tables and Radeonator detects the new driver as well.
My system:
Athlon 1.33G+EPoX 8KTA3+768M SDRAM+Windows XP Prof.+Radeon 7200.
Mix it with 6071 and everything is OK
Hi, I just get this driver and mix it with 6071(original), and get everything works flawlessly.
0. Get 6071 and uncompress it with WinRAR.
1. Download the 6093 driver, uncompress it, and goto BX_03929 directory. Copy all the contents to corresponding folders in 6071(Atidrive, in my case), override all the files.
2. Goto ATIINF directory, open CX_03947.inf, copy the [Version]
section. Again, goto 6071\Atidrive, open atiixpag.inf, replace the corresponding section.
3. Clean the previous driver, then use the setup.exe in 6071 to install the new driver.
After this, you should get all the tables and Radeonator detects the new driver as well.
My system:
Athlon 1.33G+EPoX 8KTA3+768M SDRAM+Windows XP Prof.+Radeon 7200.
demalion
New member
James Crivellone said:
Quick question...
I'm using Win ME...how did you get the files in an uncompressed form to update? What I did was run the root directory "Setup.exe" which worked, but which was disasterous in recognizing all my added hardware on reboot.
I know Win 2000 is supposed to have a .??_ file expander, and I found "expand.exe" to run...but...as per usual outstanding M$ quality...it will only work on one file at a time...
I also know that I can use WinZip, but I don't know how to batch expand all the files (Yes, I have the command line support add-on, but it only seems to support .zip files, not all the other things winzip handles) since I'm not prepared to expand all the files one at a time.
Obviously the setup program expands them, but that installation made such a mess of the system, I'm not prepared to experiment further with trying to interrupt the installation if someone could give me a more practical procedure.
I just went to device manager -> display adapters -> radeon 8500 -> update driver -> install from specific location -> don't search i will choose the driver to install -> then pointed to the 6093 inf directory
Everything seems to be working fine. It says 6093 in the ati control panel and device manager.
Everything seems to be working fine. It says 6093 in the ati control panel and device manager.
quattro said:
The 64k Produkt demo works perfectly for me. Runs very smooth, exept 2 parts of the demo. The small room with the various looking blobs(right after the castle), and one of the long cylinder kinda things. This part: http://www.koti.reimari.net/kotikari/PIILO/produkt_low.jpg
I gained about a 100points in glexcess, I also lost the tweaking tabs.
And, anybody know how to get arid of a rage3d tweaker install gone bad? and occasionaly if I'm in the display properties, I get an error message saying that desk.cpl crashed or something?
I tried Morrowind with these, and it seemed to be a touch faster. It's hard to tell with this game, though. I find if I quicksave at any point and then reload I get instantly better performance. But I had kept a few saves at certain points and noted the FPS, and this driver is maybe a couple of FPS better than before.
The fogging was messed up for me though, objects were being fogged randomly when they were close to me. Disabling 'Table Fog' in the registry cured this.
I'm not sure about the general image quality with this new driver. Colours seem a little duller, there's maybe a little less contrast... but it's hard to be sure when comparing under different lighting conditions. Maybe fixing the 'gamma ramp' took away the high contrast I've always noticed with the Radeon.
The fogging was messed up for me though, objects were being fogged randomly when they were close to me. Disabling 'Table Fog' in the registry cured this.
I'm not sure about the general image quality with this new driver. Colours seem a little duller, there's maybe a little less contrast... but it's hard to be sure when comparing under different lighting conditions. Maybe fixing the 'gamma ramp' took away the high contrast I've always noticed with the Radeon.