The drivers seemed to be great! That is until I decided to do 'old school' action in Quake 3 Arena, CTF style. After a round or two, Q3a crashed to the desktop with an error in ATIOGL.DLL Go figure! ATI techsupport suggested to roll back to a previous version of the driver--I only had 5.3 at the time; but it's worked flawlessly ever since. I suppose I'll update again later, but not until the OpenGL error is fixed.

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Drop the old dll into your q3 directory and see if it helps. :)

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Time to load them onto my Moblity X300 64MB

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ATI's drivers have been going downhill lately. I don't care about gaining a few fps especially when they cause more bugs than they fix.

I still use the 4.12's.

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dang yo'z.

i never had an issue this past year with ati's drivers.

besides my all in wonder not playing DVD correctly. no freakin idea why or how. reloaded all of it 2x and it stil doesnt work right. Cyberlink PowerDVD is what i use now, a shame though as ati's was very nice and integrated. I have a 9800 PRO AIW.

I dont knock ati, i mean, that whole intelligent CLI thing i have running actually works really well for games, i think everyone forgot about that. Works for new and old, i see lag on startup from it as it "thinks" for an older game, runs great though.

I still want to go nvidia myself for new system if I cant manage to run ATI allinwonder x800 XT on a linux system.

What's up with ati not putting out faster/better gaming Linux based drivers like nvidia does? that's a tad self defeating for such a giant in the industry.

I mean nvidia doesnt even make graphics cards! its not the big of a company! (only chips and chipsets and designs)

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Where in the world are they pulling these framerate increases from??

They have had 3 years to perfect these drivers, why all of a sudden are we seeing 0-10fps increases. Is ATI using shader replacement on more games? Did IQ suffer at all.

It just seems hard to believe that these drivers based on the exact same architecture since the 9700 still have gains of 10fps left in them.

-Kevin

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I have a question, since this hypermemory is a software based memory management software that makes use of the system ram, what about the AGP aperture settings in the bios? (well for agp boards)

I got 1GB of ram and when I set the AGP aperture to 256MB I don't have much issue running games that need more that 128MB of video ram (which I have 9800pro). So is the hypermemory smooths things out, having less stuttering and results in higher overall framerates? If that is the case then I don't need to upgrade to this driver :P

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Did you even READ the article? ATI implements HyperMemory on ALL cards with 128MB and less of memory.


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I'm still running the 4.6 drivers because 4.7 makes the textures in Battlefield 2 go crazy with my 9800 Pro.

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Where can I download the 5.6?
I have a new ATI X800np w/ 256MB and I downloaded and installed this last Tuesday. I notice a small drop in 3DMarks2001 but just shrugged it off as the result of solar flares or whatever. It would be nice if ATI warehoused their older drivers and made them available.

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