A few months ago I upgraded from a GF4 4400 to an ASUS Radeon 9600XT and I've seen a very nice performance improvement in every game I play -- except Dom 2. Probably because the only OpenGL game I play is Dom. And cruising the ATI website will quickly show that ATI hasn't given a damn about OpenGL performance -- until the frenzied outcries of Doom 3 players well nigh forced them to do something. (Likely for fear of finally losing the PR battle against nVidia.) Thus the beta 4.9 Catalyst drivers, which ostensibly fix Doom 3's OpenGL performance. As a general rule, I don't install beta drivers, so someone else will have to say whether the 4.9 drivers improve anything, or not. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Hammer.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/WinLogo.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon13.gif[/img]
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