ATI Catalyst 8.10 Fixes the Displacement Mapping Bug in OpenGL
Great news! At last, ATI has fixed the displacement mapping bug. Now you can do vertex texture fetching in your vertex shaders with a Radeon! And GPU Caps Viewer is happy:
More information about vertex displacement mapping here: Vertex Displacement Mapping in GLSL Now Available on Radeon!.
You can grab the Catalyst 8.10 BETA from here: Catalyst 8.10 BETA.
I wonder if ATI will write this bugfix in the release notes… Anyway guys, this new release of Catalyst seems to be a great version…
Categories: Catalyst, Game Development, OpenGL Tags: catalyst 8.10, displacement mapping, game development, gamedev, gpu caps viewer, graphics driver, opengl, Programming, radeon, vertex texture fetching
ATI Catalyst 8.10 Beta Graphics Drivers
The upcoming (october 2008 version) Catalyst graphics driver is available in BETA version. You can download the huge archive (~200Mb) here:
- Catalyst 8.10 BETA for Vista
- Catalyst 8.10 BETA for XP
As soon as the WHQL version is available, I will publish the OpenGL extensions because GPU Caps Viewer told me that Cat8.10 has around 115 extensions…
Here are the screenshots of my Radeon HD 4850 and Catalyst 8.10 BETA under XP32:
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Categories: Catalyst Tags: ATI, beta, catalyst, catalyst 8.10, gpu caps viewer, gpu-z, graphics driver, radeon, radeon hd 4850
Categories: 3D Engines, Game Development, OpenGL, SDK Tags: 3d, 3d engine, game development, gamedev, horde3d, opengl, Programming, sdk
Hamburgers and Pizze Can Store Your Data
If hamburgers or pizze are your favorite food, just jump on these USB drives! Watch out: don’t ever put them in your mouth! This usb food is available here.
Dell S2409W: a Full HD LCD Monitor for a Small Price
Dell has added to its catalogue a new wide screen LCD monitor: the S2409W. This LCD is a Full HD with a native resolution of 1920×1080. This is a 16/9 monitor while usual 24 inches 1920×1200 are 16/10 monitors. The price od this LCD monitor is under 300.- euros.
For french readers: Dell Moniteur à écran plat large Dell S2409W 24 pouces Full HD
ATI Radeon HD 4550: a $50 DirectX 10.1 Graphics Card
The Radeon HD 4550 is the level entry graphics card fron AMD/ATI. As the benchamrks show it, this card is not powerful for 3D gaming but is perfect for HTPC. The price is around US$50.-.
Radeon HD 4550 main specifications
- GPU: RV710 / 600MHz / 55nm
- Shader Processors: 80
- Texture Units: 8
- ROPs: 4
- Transistors: 242M
- Memory: 512M or 256M GDDR3 / 800Mhz / 64-bit
- DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 2.1
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Categories: Graphics Cards Tags: ATI, directx, gpu, graphics card, hd 4550, htpc, opengl, radeon hd 4550, rv710
Radeon HD 4870 X2: The Fastest Single Slot Graphics Card!
The guys at Rage3D have spent a lot of time to test the Radeon HD 4870 X2 with around 16 different games. The 4870 X2 is based on the the R700 GPU (actually two RV770). And their conclusion is clear: the Radeon HD 4870 X2 is the fastest card at this point in time. They also recommend, if you have the choice, to buy a Radeon HD 4870 X2 than two Radeon HD 4870 in Crossfire. And last point, an important advice is to have a fast, very fast CPU in order to fill the 4870X2’s command buffer (read send enough graphics data to the card).
Good things come in pairs
This test is focused on DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 titles and it’s a pity that Rage3D has not tested the 4870 X2 with OpenGL applications.
Read the complete test here: Radeon HD 4870 X2 Review.
Categories: Graphics Cards Tags: ATI, directx 10, directx 9, graphics card, opengl, r700, radeon hd 4870 x2, review, rv770
Store Your Data And Smoke Cigarettes With This USB Drive
You can grab it here for $59.99 with a capacity of 8Gb.
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Categories: Gadgets Tags: Gadgets, usb, usb drive, usb lighter
New GPU Nomenclature for NVIDIA
- GTX 200: extreme performance and enthusiast-grade GPUs
- GT 200: high-performance GPUs
- GS 200: mainstream GPUs
- G 200: entry-level GPUs
ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024Mb Review
This Radeon HD 4870 (RV770 GPU) with 1Gb GDDR5 of graphics memory can be seen as the answer to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 (see here and here). And from the tests, the Radeon HD 4870 1Gb is a little faster than a regular GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 but has to compete fiercely with the pre-overcloked versions of the GTX 260 Core 216 (like BFG and eVGA).
Read the complete review here: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB review
Categories: Graphics Cards Tags: ATI, gddr5, geforce gtx 260 core 216, graphics card, NVIDIA, radeon hd 4870, review, rv770
