Latest ATI drivers

[brando]

Originally Posted by manfromx

I had no luck with the 9.12's

Perfect still results in garbage at least with Windows 7 anyways.

Tried Catalyst AI disabled, standard, advanced and many other options on and off.
Same result every time.

Guess we'll have to wait a little longer unless someone figured out why it's doing this . (on perfect anyway)

Ditto, no improvement with 9.12 and I'm still having to use the atioglxx.dll from 9.8 to get clean script.

I did notice in the Release notes for 9.12, that they claim to have resolved another issue with IL2 Forgotten Battles - so they are actually acknowledging the game's existence.

I urge everyone who is experiencing this issue to send a report to the Catalyst feedback crew , with a screenshot if possible. They'll only fix it if they know about it.

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AMD x4 955BE, 4Gb RAM, Ati 4890, Win 7 64bit.

[13th Hsqn Protos]

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9.12 fix the memory leak.

Text corruption goes away for me now about 10 seconds or so after starting a track an all is normal. Slight performance decrease, about 2 fps avg in Black Death Track.

[genbrien]

there is an hotfix for the 9.12, it says : fix flikering on opengl games.... maybe it will make it for il2 !!!!

ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix Driver

Right along with the WHQL release ATI decided to also launch a hotfix driver that addresses certain specific issues -- and there are truly some significant changes in this one.

Should you be interested, we have a discussion thread open on these drivers right here.

Fixes for the following issues:

Resident Evil 5 – Performance drop during the opening cinematic
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 – Performance drop observed with a supported ATI CrossFireX™ configuration when using the thermal scope
Wheelman – Game freezes while loading the game menu
Flashing in various OpenGL titles – City of Heroes, Enemy Territories: Quake Wars, Riddick
Heaven benchmark (DirectX 9 mode) – Grass flickers and white boarders observed around the edges
ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series – issue with HDMI: DTS-HD and Dolby True-HD not working properly with certain receivers
The desktop mouse cursor becomes enlarged at random when using Windows 7
Support for ATI CrossFireX™ on Eyefinity configurations

The ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 hotfix release provides ATI CrossFireX™ support on Eyefinity configurations, allowing users to take advantage of their additional GPUs for increased gaming performance when driving high resolution Eyefinity display groups
Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series
Support for DisplayPort audio

The ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 hotfix release adds support for DisplayPort audio for DisplayPort panels
Support for the OpenCL™ GPU component of the ATI Stream SDK v2.0

The ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 hotfix release provides full support for GPU acceleration of OpenCL when used in conjunction with the ATI Stream SDK v2.0. This feature is supported on theATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series and the AMD FireStream™ 9200 Series of products.

EDIT:If I remove the atioglxx.dll I got some strange letters in IL2.... nothing is redable... all numbers and letters and like : l ll lllll......
but with it it's ok, but I've still the missing/flickering debrief.....

[Flanker35M]

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9.12 did not fix anything. Still got garbled text and flashing textures etc. in game. This is only when using Perfect setting in OpenGL. With Excellent all is normal.

So I did a new install of IL2 with bells and whistles on a fresh install of Win7 64-bit, dropped the atioglxx.dll from 9.10 to IL2 folder and game works rock solid. With VSync on average FPS counter in The Black Death is 54-55FPS so not bad.

Maybe we could wish for some dll's that support ATI better Otherwise IL2 still goes on strong as most of hardware, even older ones, run it very well

[Flanker35M]

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I fiddled with various dll's that are floating around. With the 4.09beta dll's the textures flickered, but with Catalyst AI on Standard all looks normal, so something has changed there. Before if enabling Catalyst AI you got funny looking water and stutter. A small side effect with the beta DLL's is that the shoreline is darker and shows thru fog, but if you can live with that then it is OK.

But back to original topic. Would there be any chance at all that Team Daidalos or Oleg's team could release a set of DLL's that would give better support for ATI? ATI is releasing 7th of january their Catalyst 10.1 drivers with FULL OpenGL 3.2 support so if IL-2 could get a set of new DLL's we ATI users could also enjoy. Please?

And mind you, IL-2 is the ONLY game I have on my HDD that gives trouble with ATI. I can put Aces High 2 on full settings without a glitch, same applies to EVE Online and Rise Of Flight. So a humble please for some support?

Happy holidays to all

[KG26_Alpha]

@ Flanker


http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=7705


Its the same for Nvida too

Concentric rings


ATI & Nvidia have suffered with driver and hardware updates.

IL2 1946 needs a graphics dll update to remove the water ring on Nv cards in perfect mode and to fix the ATI purple trextures and general corruption.

You gave to be careful though as some of these glitches on ATI are purely driver related.

[Flanker35M]

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I have now the 409beta dll's dated 25.01.2008. With them I got flickering textures, but when enabling Catalyst AI to Standard = vanished. Only thing is that the shoreline went darker with these DLL's and sometimes "stick out" thru fog at distance.

Another funny thing I noticed is that on Kuban map flying above Novoryssiysk when Forest=2 I get considerable drop in FPS but if I have Forest=3 there is no FPS drop at all. Strange if you ask me. I have VSync on and with Forest=3 I get 60FPS, with Forest=2 it goes down to 25-30FPS.

I won't buy a nVidia card just to get IL-2 running because all other games run just fine. So as Alpha said, a set of DLL's would be nice at some point and VERY much appreciated

Until then I use Catalyst 9.12 Hotfix for other games and dropped the atioglxx.dll from 9.10's to IL-2 folder. Works fine Hopes are in 10.1's...

[steeldelete]

Yep me too. Too bad, I was hopin with my 5870 card all should be better. I have a 24" monitor.

[Flanker35M]

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SteelDelete, I replied to JG6 Express in his thread on ATI. Take a look there I ran WoP demo today without ANY fiddling at all. Everything worked, no stutter or slow downs. I wish IL2 could get some of this new code to make it smoother