7.2 drivers released

[sswilson]

Probably should set up a separate thread just for links to new driver releases but this will do for now.....

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Full slate of new drivers here including apparently new Vista ones.

Still no luck on issues with 1950pro Overdrive (flashing) so I'm sticking with my 6.2 ngo release.

Release notes here....

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...se_notes.html\


New Features

Catalyst™ 7.2 introduces a brand new version of the Catalyst™ Control Center for Windows XP. The new Catalyst™ Control Center delivers a number of significant enhancements:

• Significant performance gains; Catalyst™ Control Center start-up time has been substantially reduced, and overall responsiveness has improved.
• Reduced system resource usage
• New 3D preview which significantly improves the ability for users to understand the benefits of enabling the many Catalyst™ features of their ATI Radeon™ graphics accelerator
• Increased stability
• Native 32 and 64-bit support

[sswilson]

Took the leap last night and installed them.

CCC does seem to work more smoothly and open up quicker.

This release works with F@H GPU client, but holy cwap does FAH (gpu client) ever beat up my system!!!!

Up `til now I hadn't seen any stress testing drive my cpu beyond the occasional spike of 42c, this thing (which works more off of the GPU, and just uses cpu cycles for resources) spikes up to 46c cpu & just under 70c for the gpu.

[SHaCK]

Oops, double-thread ^^

I'm currently running on the 6.10s because the GPU client didn't support above 6.12 at the time. Glad to hear that those works with it. I'm eager to try them tonight.

GPU folding also beat the hell out of my comp, as opposed to regular CPU folding the system is a lot more slower.. that's bad because I usually never stop the normal client, I wish I could do the same with GPU folding.

The increase in temps your are seing is because the GPU produces a lot of heat making the case temperature higher, thus affecting the CPU temp.(that's my guess)

And that's interesting, I'll have to check if ATI Tool Artifact scanning + Orthos running at the same time will produce as much heat as GPU folding, theoretically it should.

[sswilson]

Yeah, this is well above what I'm used to seeing, although you may be right that it's the extra heat from the gpu running 24/7.

Just finished a WU, but the stats haven't updated yet to let me know what kind of points I get with GPU vice the CPU.

One other interesting note is that my recorded temps have flip-flopped with regards to the ratio between cpu temp & core temp.

All other stress testing have had core temp lagging cpu temp by 2 - 3 deg c, running the gpu client has core temp matching and in some cases exceeding cpu temp by 1 or 2.

[sswilson]

3Dmark05 benchmarks were slightly higher with 7.2 than they were with the last drivers I had installed which is fairly impressive since I had the NGO 6.12 without CCC.

Anyone running the new CCC on Vista? Do you find it's snappier on Vista compared to XP?