Originally Posted by kyro
ATI have hercules behind them now with hercules building card so as we all know hercules come out with real good drivers that are fast and stable. Maybe that i\'ll help ATI......

If Radeon 3 soon will be out in USA.

With specifications example like:
Radeon 3 (R300)
512bit GPU
128MB DDR
8X AGP Support

The only problem could be? if ATI would be able develop Ultimate
drivers at the right time for this Warrior.

bah. release dates, shmelease dates.
We don't even have the 8500 in Australia yet.

Some lameness on ATI's part. It's coming, but it isn't, but it is, but it isn't. Been waiting for months...

It seems that ATI first realese the card, then they work hard on fast perfomance drivers.

So would ATI will do the same for -Radeon 3 ?

First realse the card on the market to surprise people, while include crapy drivers;
then later time by, realese the muscle drivers.

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Specification on R300

Radeon 3
512bit GPU: (I think)
128MB DDR Memory
8X AGP Support: -(Double the speed of 4xAGP)

Realese date: Q3-Q4, 2002.

[b]www.obsidiantower.com[/b]

Anyone know where I can find a site other than ATI's to download the new drivers for XP?...Their site crawls and timesout. I would have thought they would have mirrored it all over the place considering the wait for them.

Thanks

Heh, been to the Rage3D forums recently, superchode? :)

AG#7

It seems to me that for some time now, the only people who were complaining about ATI's drivers were people with nVidia cards....

So, the general consensus is that ATI has cleaned up its drivers and they can compete head-to-head with Nvidia products on a gaming level or....?

FYI, when you set anisotropic on your Geforce card, it is always enabled even if the game doesn't support it. You don't get mipmap interpolation unless the game is set to trilinear, though.

I just ran some tests on an 8500 AIW, and you'll be amazed at how sharp anisotropic filtering looks! At 16X, the image is very crisp and clean, unlike that of FSAA (does anyone actually use that? I know I can't stand it)

Best of all there is very little hit...

In Q3 with full details, 1024x768 on an AXP2000+

Aniso Off: 98.6 FPS
Aniso 16X: 82.8

In UT, full details, 640x480x32:

Aniso Off: 91.32
Aniso 16X: 86.2

WOOHOO! Free image quality!

Originally Posted by baron_calamity
the ..... site .... is ...... very ..... slow ...... *sigh*

The aniso-xor-tri thing is a hardware limitation, AFAIK.

Must read better...... the release notes say the ansio control panel isn't hooked up for the 7500.

Are you sure the ansio controls won't work on the 7500? It's not like the hardware doesn't support ansio.

Is the ansio-or-trilinear-but-not-both thing a hardware issue in the 8500, or just a holdover from the original Radeon drivers? Or is it gone, and I'm just behind?