Comments on: ATI Catalyst 9.7 (BETA): Three New OpenGL Extensions!

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Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:37:08 +0000

[...] But wait a minute: WGL_NV_swap_group is exposed by Catalyst display drivers: Catalyst 8.12 or Catalyst 9.7. A Radeon HD 4850 supports this advanced OpenGL feature and not my GeForce GTX 295. Crazy [...]

By: Governator

Governator — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:28:59 +0000

As far as Furmark 1.7 is concerned I believe CF may be broke with the WHQL 9.7s (Unofficial), anyone else confirm? I get over 13K with Cat 9.6 with my CF 4890 setup on a 3.4GHz PII 720 BE and with the 9.7 WHQL set I only achieve 6900 and change, something isn’t right here, thanks everyone.

By: Matumbo

Matumbo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:12:46 +0000

Hang on, we’ve never been so close to having those damned geometry shaders !! We know the hardware’s present, they have just not finished copy-pasting the d3d driver code

By: JeGX

JeGX — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:23 +0000

I think ATI is still working on OpenGL geometry shaders and the driver team don’t want to officially expose geometry shader extension as lon as it’s not ok…

By: Leith Bade

Leith Bade — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:47:05 +0000

If the ATi drivers report geometry shaders, why is the geometry program extension not present?