New ATI Drivers Fix BC2 Loading Times

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I have to caveat this with the fact that I don't have ATI cards so I'm going by what I found on the EA UK forums. From what I've read it only appears to fix issues with 5XXX series cards and not 4XXX series cards.


http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/...7-new-ati-beta-driver-loading-time-fixed.html


New ATi BETA Driver Loading Time FIXED!! <hr style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="1"> <!-- / icon and title --> <!-- message --> All infos here -> Catalyst 10.x BETA (8.74 April 6/10) Win All - Guru3D.com Forums

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They need to make a fix for the 4xxx cards too. Not everyone has the top cards.
 
The crashing is mostly in relation to the game itself.
 
Those are total bullshit. If you check out ATI forums, the Catalyst moderators have denied producing, much less leaking those drivers. Just another example of don't believe everything you read.
 
As much as I want to support ATI to bring the price of GFX cards down, NVIDIA seems to have their shit more together.
 
NVIDIA seems to have their shit more together.
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Seriously? They are 6 months behind their estimated production timeline for the Fermi cards, which now run hotter than dual GPU cards and are still not available. If that's having their shit together god help us all. Their drivers might be up to speed but that's about it so far.
 
So far so good...seemingly legit with no install issues - Big file ckecking that out.

As for performance I'll report back when I have a chance to give it a really good run
-first glance a little faster
 
http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/b...ime-fixed.html

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=319691

Sorry for reposting the links -
My experience has been similar to many of the positive posts
I have been running this driver with a 5770 currently
Have also seen a small increase in fps and reduced load times :) - load times not instant by any means, but a definite improvement

No way to know the validity of the driver for sure. My guess, regardless of what ATI might publicly be saying, is that this is some kind of leaked beta driver.
Works great and no problems so far
Worth a run for 5xxx cards imo
 
Looks like ATI officially released the 10.4 beta that started being downloaded yesterday without "official" backing.


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For Battlefield: Bad Company 2

AMD has released yet another "preview" driver and it looks like AMD has finally managed to get its driver team in order. The new Catalyst 10.4 Preview is all about Battlefield: Bad Company 2 game and only supports the Radeon HD 5000 series.

The new "preview" driver, as AMD likes to call it, actually fixes the long load times for new maps in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 game. The driver is exclusive for ATI Radeon HD 5xxx series graphics cards.

We were told that the Catalyst 10.4a driver, the one that will support Radeon HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 series, is coming in the next few days. The Catalyst 10.4a will also include a single fix for Battlefield: Bad Company 2, but as you know, even this is better than nothing.

Looks like AMD's statements about more serious attention to drivers are paying dividends, and we certainly like it.


Get it here from ATI: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATI-Catalyst-10-4-Hotfix.aspx
 
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Yup figures - driver i am running is to good to be 3rd party, plus has some other features also - performance is excellent
 
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