Tweaktown did some benchmarks and the results weren't that good.
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It just means that some of the new features are only available on the latest chipset. The driver itself is still available for your hardware.
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I doubt it's the dawn of anything, Omega drivers are not a new thing, they must've been around for at least 10 years.
Plus, it's AMD that dropped support for old cards in their drivers, unlike nVidia (and before you ask, AMD user currently)
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These are entirely new drivers off AMD themselves. The old "Omega drivers" you're thinking of were coded by an independent guy that had nothing to do with AMD / ATI.
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What about the Mantle thing from ATI and AMD? Anything new? :S
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Mantle's already part of the Catalyst drivers since last summer. Main issue is that game engines also need to be coded for it to benefit from it. The Frostbite 3 engine (first used in Battlefield 4) was the first to support it, any EA game using it since BF4 will work with Mantle.
Unreal Engine or CryEngine are following suite, but there haven't been many releases based on the newer versions of those engines yet.
For other 3D engines, it really depends on who decides to implement support when.
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Thanks. I noticed a better perfomance in BF4, didn't know that Mantle was under the hood already. (Not 50% better perfomance as they said it would be, tough)
Have a nice day :)
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If you weren't aware of Mantle being used, you weren't using it, as you need to specifically enable usage of Mantle rather than OpenGL in BF4's options.
It also depends on what model / chipset your card is, they've been adding Mantle support chipset by chipset, not all at once.
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So i have to active it in the graphic options or do i need to change a config file or what?
Let's see if my chipset works with it. Is there any list of chipsets?
Many thanks. :)
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im beeing a twat and cant find the download link, if i try to download the drivers normaley i get the normal Catalyst xD, so where can i download this? :D
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These are the "normal" Catalyst.
If you get Catalyst 14.12 then you're getting the Omega drivers.
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My Radeon HD7770 was not advertised as being supported on those old windowses, so that's not the point. It was written on the box that the GPU is supported on winxp so I am in the right expecting a new driver (the current winxp driver has problems).
It's good that the new driver is for GNU/Linux though.
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Maybe you shouldn't expect something for a dead operating system. The 7770 might be supported on winXP, but that doesn't mean extended driver support needs to be given. The last driver is 14.4 for windows XP, which is two months past the end of life for the OS the driver is on.
There was support, just not continued support.
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It was supported on XP and they did make drivers for it. But since XP is now an unsupported antique, you can't expect them to keep making drivers forever for a dead OS.
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Downloaded and noticed massive improvement playing Dragon Age: Inquisition. I'm so pumped! :D
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Well, im going to wait a sec before i upgrade. New drivers are always risky, especially ones with so many new features. I'll check back in a few weeks.
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Damn... I really need to upgrade. Not compatible with my 4870. Its still a decent card but its really starting to show its age.
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Promises a lot of performance increase. I've not tested them yet, but they installed fine.
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