Simviation Forum - Whats the Best Driver For The ATI9600xt

Mar 8^th, 2004 at 8:26pm

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Hello.i have the newest driver.but i was just wondering if any one eles is getting better results with any other drivers.thanks

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Reply #1 - Mar 9^th, 2004 at 6:40am

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I use 4.2, i have not benchmarked with this driver yet. When i went up from 3.9 to 4.1 i got a 5% increase.

My system:Intel Q6600@3.6GHz, Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2-6400 (4-4-4-12-1T) , Sapphire 7850 OC 2BG 920/5000, X-Fi Fatality, Corsair AX 750, 7 Pro x64

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Reply #2 - Mar 10^th, 2004 at 5:24pm

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Thanks for the information Hyvry1_Delta.i am running the 4.2 allso with good results.i did read someone said there getting better results with the omega drivers.but i think ill stay with the ATI drivers since i dont have any problems.

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Reply #3 - Mar 10^th, 2004 at 5:42pm

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I am going to change to 4.3, They are up now. Link is in sig \/. I will try to update it everytime a new one comes out.

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Reply #4 - Mar 12^th, 2004 at 7:21am

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I have the 9600 PRO and downloaded and installed the 4.3 driver last night. This time I did the install per their instruction and got a better install than I did with 4.1 Texturing and colour looks much better than I had before. I forgot to do a benchmark .

Andy

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Reply #5 - Mar 12^th, 2004 at 8:39am

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You should get higher scores. About 300 i think would be reasonable, in 3dmark

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Reply #6 - Mar 17^th, 2004 at 6:36am

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Interesting. I was nearly floored when I dropped around 3000 with 3DMark2001 with AA x4 and Antistropic X8 in the control panel. With them off I got around 9250, still less than with the supplied 3.7 driver from Saphire(It's a 9600Pro) With a clean boot I get around 10050 with 4.3

Performance in the sim seems better and typically at 29.9fps most of the time set to 30, with and without external AA etc. I have everything maxed at 1024x768 32bit.

Might try some of the earlier ones again just to see what happens but expect I will come back to 4.3 Don't know if the Saphire version will be any better(I expect they are customised to my card) but they are still back at 4.1

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Reply #7 - Mar 17^th, 2004 at 8:49am

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I do not know what the scores for a 9600pro are expected to be, but for 3dmark01 i get 14k. 4k for 03. 34k for AM3. I am using 4.3 now. The IQ is better with no hit on the fps. All i can say is thankyou ATI.

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Reply #8 - Mar 18^th, 2004 at 8:03am

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I forgot to mention my motherboard is only AGPx4 (XP2400/ 512M266DDR). I'm sussing out a new one with AGPx8 to upgrade to in the next month or so.

I loaded and tried 3DMark03 last night and get 16K

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Reply #9 - Mar 18^th, 2004 at 8:29am

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Agp 8x over 4x is only 1% faster so it does not warrent an upgrade.

Also how did you get 16k in 3dmark03 with a 9600pro. It can't even get that in 01. You should expect 2.5k to 3k in 03, i somehow think that the score was miss-read.

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Reply #10 - Mar 20^th, 2004 at 5:48am

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The Fsim benchmarks I was looking at on Tom's Hardware website were around 46fps, about 16 better than I reliably get, so assumed it was due in the main to my AGp 4 MB etc. I've already promised this one to one of the kids and don't want to go back on that.

3DMark03 reported 16076 on the test I saved for later upload, 16050 on a second run. Will test again tonight in case there was a decimal point but I didn't think so.

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Reply #11 - Mar 20^th, 2004 at 12:33pm

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AGP 8x over 4x will not be noticeable at all.

16k in 03 may be close to the highest score ever. I am not sure that it is accurately saying what you have. I recommend you try Aquamark 3 that is the best benchmark there is.

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Reply #12 - Mar 22^nd, 2004 at 5:33am

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I ran the tests again and got 16062 this time. It's strange because the tests seem to be in slow motion. The second counter takes about 4 to 5 seconds to roll over so you could be right about it being in error. It came on a CD with a PC mag I bought. Will look for the one you mentioned.

The 4.3 driver itself seems to be going very well. I have also opened up from 30 to 45fps and reliably get around 35 to low 40's down to low 20's over airfields etc. I'm happy.

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Reply #13 - Mar 22^nd, 2004 at 6:51am

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I am very sure that is an error, a stock 9800xt gets around 6k. You should try AquaMark3, that should give you accurate results.

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Reply #14 - Mar 24^th, 2004 at 6:02am

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Sorted out that high score issue after I went back to the Saphire 4.1 driver/control panel(couldn't access the ATI 4.3 drivers to get the control panel, 3.10 up instead?).

I now get around 3.6k in 3dmark03. The problem I discovered was running under a clean boot mucks it up. It's haywire again now. At least we know what it was.

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