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   #17. Posted at 09:54 AM on Aug 21st 2008 Edit   Reply
WaltC
For those who like their operating systems free, AMD has cooked up new 32-bit and 64-bit Catalyst 8.8 drivers for Linux.

Where can I get my free Linux distro? (serious question, btw.)
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#17, http://www.kubuntu.org/  :  PRIME1  (#19)  «
#19, KDE sux ;) http://www.xubuntu.org/  :  Bluekkis  (#21)  «
#21, But MAN it's pretty. :D  :  A_Pickle  (#35)  «
#35, Hey, that's unfair. GNOME with a good custom theme ...  :  AvKn  (#43)  «
#43, Oh, I'm not disputing that. Heck, I even think G...  :  A_Pickle  (#44)  «
#17, any tips for mandriva?  :  l33t-g4m3r  (#37)  «
#17, I like Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/ However, with Fedora...  :  Crow69  (#38)  «

   #12. Posted at 08:48 AM on Aug 21st 2008 Edit   Reply
sigher
Bluescreens my XP64, good job ATI.
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#12, My XPx64 works fine with them. Your prob is your system.  :  wingless  (#14)  «
#12, Good job, sigher  :  TheEmrys  (#15)  «
#12, Did you uninstalled your previous drivers before the new dri...  :  Krogoth  (#20)  «
#20, Hehe, no I didn't think of that, and I also installed a n...  :  sigher  (#23)  «
#23, Too bad, with Vista the driver would crash then probab...  :  MadManOriginal  (#31)  «
#23, From my experience, it always has been a headache to i...  :  Krogoth  (#36)  «
#36, I think anybody that isn't some 'apple-target-audie...  :  sigher  (#39)  «
#12, Step 1: Open the system chassis. Step 2: Physically remove t...  :  ludi  (#22)  «
#12, Like hell it does. Mine is fine.  :  asdsa  (#29)  «
#29, Looking at various forums it seems clear these drivers ha...  :  sigher  (#40)  «
#40, More senseless FUD. I have just uninstalled my old driv...  :  Krogoth  (#42)  «

   #1. Posted at 06:32 AM on Aug 21st 2008 Edit   Reply
Pax-UX
Ordered my 4870x2 today! these are nicely timed :)
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#1, Well once you got it and tried 8.8 and you get odd issues ju...  :  sigher  (#41)  «

   #33. Posted at 04:50 PM on Aug 21st 2008 Edit   Reply
l33t-g4m3r
I installed these drivers and windows reset my activation.
****ing windows!
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#33, http://indeego.com/oldtechpics/windowsproductacticonfusion.p...  :  indeego  (#34)  «

   #8. Posted at 08:09 AM on Aug 21st 2008 Edit   Reply
eitje
woah - has crossfire never been available in linux before?!
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#8, What linux game would need it?  :  tfp  (#10)  «
#10, Quake 3 of course!  :  derFunkenstein  (#30)  «
#10, http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames/  :  BobbinThreadbare  (#32)  «
#8, Crossfire X, not regular crossfire. http://techreport.com/art...  :  Usacomp2k3  (#13)  «
#8, what's linux? =D  :  netkcid  (#16)  «
#8, Nope, CrossFire is on linux for first time now. These driver...  :  Bluekkis  (#18)  «
#18, Who needs two processors to accelerate a bunch of xterms ...  :  anjulpa  (#27)  «
#27, xgl is obsolete, aiglx support on standard xorg has re...  :  Bluekkis  (#28)  «

   #2. Posted at 06:45 AM on Aug 21st 2008 Edit   Reply
Archer
I installed this new driver and saved 15% on my car insurance.
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#2, And I got a 45% frame rate increase in Doom 3.  :  reckless_meanie66  (#9)  «
#2, I didn't. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...  :  Corrado  (#11)  «
#11, But didn't waking up next to the Burger King "King" kind ...  :  UberGerbil  (#26)  «

   #3. Posted at 07:18 AM on Aug 21st 2008 Edit   Reply
Archer
Some cheeznutz forgot to put the driver in the full install package. Grab CCC and the driver as separate files.
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#3, I got the 64 bit Vista version in a full install package. Wh...  :  BKA  (#4)  «
#4, Oddly I actually ran into the same issue at work trying t...  :  Taddeusz  (#25)  «

   #24. Posted at 11:34 AM on Aug 21st 2008 Edit   Reply
Forge
The Linux 8.8s still don't have the Wine Checkerboard of Doom fixed. Rebooting into Windows is tiring, but I'm actually getting used to it.

13: First Crossfire ever in Linux, and currently 4800 series and two GPUs only.

The one big thing that made SLI on Linux take so long and presumably CF as well is app detection. It's a little different under Linux, and both CF and SLI rely heavily on detecting apps and changing multi-GPU modes accordingly, often with rendering tricks or restrictions to correct for multi-GPU being so abnormal.
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   #6. Posted at 07:25 AM on Aug 21st 2008 Edit   Reply
HurgyMcGurgyGurg
Can anyone give data as to whether folding output increases with these drives, I'm interested in seeing if the ppd for the 4870 can start increasing to match nVidia graphics cards. Folding is a major concern for my next system and I can't decide as to go with ATI's value ratio or nVidia's folding power.

Thank you.
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#6, Folding output comes with better code from Stanford. AMD's d...  :  wingless  (#7)  «

   #5. Posted at 07:24 AM on Aug 21st 2008 Edit   Reply
GodsMadClown
Does anyone know when/if the power saving features of Hybrid Crossfire are going to be done?
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