ATI Catalyst 6.10 are out!!

The new catalyst 6.10 are out. I should be installing these on my Apire 5672 X1600 sometime this week. Right now im playing NFSCarbon on my desktop. If anybody has Company of Heroes and has a 5672 with the X1600. Can you let me know if it works with these. Good luck


Direct link (I hope thats ok) ATI mobile catalyst 6.10!
http://www.ati.com/online/mobilecatalyst/

ATI Catalyst 6.10

Company of Heroes (did not crash "yet" :-) woot )

Performance on custom settings

Average FPS 21.7
MAX FPS 65.0
MIN FPS 10.3

CUSTOM settings
1024*768

Shader High
Model High
Antialiasing Disabled
Textures Medium
Shadows Low
Reflections Low
Post processing ON
Building Detail High
Physics Medium
Tree Quality Medium
Terrain Detail Medium
Effects Fidelity High
Effects density Medium
Object Scarring On
Model Detail slider (slightly bellow default middle)

Tutorial did not lock up. (alright :-)



Now to the sythetic Benchmarks:

3DMark03: 4798

3DMark05: 2853

I'll post if any other games that are played crash or not, but so far, it good!

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****Other ATI mobile Catalyst i've tryed:****

Benchmark scores for my Acer 5672 with ATI x1600 (128mb/512 hypermem)

Standard Acer Ati drivers (8.241)
3D MARK05 2845
3D MARK03 4839
Company of Heroes (automatic settings) *dont compare to results above*
avg 8.9
max 46.0
min 3.0
*obviously these auto setting are for a desktop version of the x1600 (with high ram frequency and 128-bit

memory bus). After setting some stuff to med and high (shadows and reflection on low), and no AF and AA. I get playable framrates. (example above with 6.10 drivers)

Standard ATi Mobility 6.9 drivers (not OMEGA)
3D MARK05 2852

3D MARK03 4826

Company of heroes (same settings)
Blank screen or BSOD, then reset. Bummer

**I'f anybody else have tryed the new 6.10, a post would be appreciated. Thanks

I,ve installed NFSCarbon on the Acer 5672 X1600. With the Mobile Catalyst 6.10 it runs very smooth. It actually runs better then my desktop single core with nvidia 6800GT.

You can definely tell it was optimized for the Xbox 360. I have a feeling this game utilizes both cores in the acer and this game seems to be working better with ATI cards.

I have it running on 1024*768 with noAA and triliniar filtering. All settings max, exept world detail on high and blurr off.

I am impressed with the screen. It has 16ms response time and there has only been minimum at best ghosting. Nice. :-)

Dang ransomed. I wonder if you can reinstall the game. See if that works. I do not have unreal 2004, I would check it out if I did. I have not seen any crashes on the laptop since the driver install. I hope you get that resolved. I would probably copy and paste some of that info on google see if others have had your problem as well. :-(

link1313 I would only upgrade if you have had any trouble with games your playing. Also if you play any real new games such as NFSCarbon or Company of Heroes. There seems to be optimization for those games in the Catalyst 6.10 release. If it aint broke dont fix it. If your enjoying the Omegas, maybe you can wait for the OMEGA 6.10 release.
I mainly upgraded because I wanted to see improved performance in the games I listed, and there is better performance. Plus I wanted to find a stable driver release that would get me away from "ACER ATI Drivers" yuck. If acer updated there ATI drivers I wouldn't put them down so much.

The Official ATI mobility catalyst drivers are working great so far with my Acer Aspire 5672 with x1600 ATI card. Don't try to download directly from there site. Get it from my link at the begining of this thread.

I guess it depends on your laptop. It may work for you, it may not. Just because it says on there website that your laptop is not "officially supported", does not mean it wont work.

Another question to ask your self is, do you really need to upgrade? My last post before this should give you a very small reason why or why not to upgrade. Also read up on the whole thread and see what other people think.

Based on other posts: Dont upgrade to new 6.10 if you have an Acer travelmate 8204. Naselhair said his BSOD so he reverted back. I also heard of people with the new Acer Ferrari laptop with the X1150 ATI card have had bad luck with this new set as well.

So far, most people who have the Aspire 5672 (both X1400 and x1600) have faired well in new games performance.

If you do decide to try them out, I would just recommend creating a system restore point before anything else. If you dont like them just system restore back and you should be fine. :-)

If your pretty satisfied on your current omega drivers, then I would not upgrade or maybe wait for Omega's next release.

Ahh, just my opinion, anybody else agree/disagree? Good Luck :-)

Well looks like the new Catalyst 6.11 drivers are out. I started a new thread in the support section in this forum.

I havent seen any mention of Unreal Tournament 2004 in the release notes. Probably wont fix it. Driver problems are never fun and are really time consuming. An example for me was my hassle with the 6.9 drivers. It could take 1-2 hours or more to mess with these software problems. In your case Ransomed1 I would assume the 2+ hours or diagnosis. :-)

As for me i'm sticking with the 6.10's till I start seeing problems, then I may try the 6.11's.

**OFF TOPIC--Ransomed1**
Ohh yeah, to update the 22' monitor purchasing. I'm holding that off a bit. If playing console games on it produces no lag. I may be deep pocketing it and heading into HDTV land. Im looking into a Sony KDF-46E2000. 720p res (1080p still too expensive 4 me) 46" rear-projection. This will be my cristmas present too me. The main thing is it has to pass the "gaming lag problem" for me to buy it. My brother is getting a Wii, and if it lags, Wario wares going to be horrible on it. "crosses fingers" woot.