AMD & NV drivers - now with OpenGL 4.2 & OpenCL 1.1 support

kick · Post by **kick** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:23 am

*reserved*

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:04 am

you wouldn't want to spend a lot of time in safe mode anyways. I think hardware accelerated 2d has spoiled us.

Squall_Leonhart · Post by **Squall_Leonhart** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:44 am

kick wrote:Another weird thing about the ATI cards is the extremely bad performance on Windows without drivers (using VgaSave) and in Safe Mode.With the older cards it was tolerable,but with the latest series it's a pain in the ass,like watching a slideshow.Older nVidia cards were optimized for this mode,so the performance was close to the one with native drivers.
If you do a lot of (troubleshooting/cleaning/repair) work in Safe Mode,this can be a real problem.
I don't know if the latest nVidia cards now have the same problem as the ATI ones (since they lack dedicated 2D hardware)

Its the Bios on the cards, VGASave makes use of VESA functions, which are no longer supported in the card bios.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:02 am

Nvidia has released drivers with OpenGL 3 support enabled.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x ... _beta.html
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx [not listed for all products supported for some reason... Nvidia have the worst setup for driver releases on there site, if you don't see it then choose anther video card product.]

kick · Post by **kick** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:07 am

But those are still BETA

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:53 am

its there alternative name to non WHQL, do you consider WHQL'd drivers stable?

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:58 am

they have been certified, if that means anything to you

Squall_Leonhart · Post by **Squall_Leonhart** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:09 am

I pity the fool who thinks WHQL instantly means a drivers gunna be good.
Especially since the opposite is more accurately the truth.

Franpa knows what im saying.

kick · Post by **kick** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:34 am

Heh,this wasn't a bug at all:

http://stashbox.org/396349/HD2600_Video ... _XPSP3.png

Easily fixed by installing the latest WMP runtimes

The real bug is with WMV video acceleration - it doesn't work on XP.

kick · Post by **kick** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:58 pm

Just stumbled upon a post in the AVS forums discussing about a similar issue and I was surprised when I saw many familiar names there,like Squall_Leonhart, tetsuo55 and other people from the ZSNES forums

Does any of you know if there's any way to get DXVA 1.0 WMV acceleration working under XP with the latest AGP hotfix driver? (with WMP and/or Media player Classic).Do I have to install WMP11, WMP10 or just the WMP11 runtimes?

kick · Post by **kick** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:22 pm

NVidia has just released official WHQL drivers with OpenGL3 support.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:36 am

Yea, 182.06. Eduke32 reports OpenGL 3.0 support in its log and I didn't run any tweaks or anything on the driver to enable OpenGL 3.0..

Squall_Leonhart · Post by **Squall_Leonhart** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:00 am

kick wrote:Just stumbled upon a post in the AVS forums discussing about a similar issue and I was surprised when I saw many familiar names there,like Squall_Leonhart, tetsuo55 and other people from the ZSNES forums

Does any of you know if there's any way to get DXVA 1.0 WMV acceleration working under XP with the latest AGP hotfix driver? (with WMP and/or Media player Classic).Do I have to install WMP11, WMP10 or just the WMP11 runtimes?

AVS? err, im not a member there....

kick · Post by **kick** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:34 pm

AMD has just released a new driver (9.2) for their ATI Radeon GPUs.

One of the OpenGL bugs is fixed: glGetString(GL_VERSION) works now with an OpenGL 3.0 context.
The other bug is not: GLView still reports 95% GL3 support (no GLSL 1.30),even though it is there.

The driver adds 3 new OpenGL extensions,for a total of 133.

kick · Post by **kick** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:41 pm

franpa wrote:Yea, 182.06. Eduke32 reports OpenGL 3.0 support in its log and I didn't run any tweaks or anything on the driver to enable OpenGL 3.0..

Could you post the GLView report for your card?

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:16 am

I had OpenGL issues and was trying out different drivers and tried 181.22, 182.05, 182.06 and 185.20 but none fixed the issue :/ I believe it to be Nvidia's failtastic x64 support?

I can reinstall 182.06 though... brb.

EDIT: sorry, I thought I still had the drivers downloaded... I can't be bothered downloading a 100mb file that i know fails to function correctly in OpenGL games just for a test...

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:27 am

182.06 x86

100% support for 3.0 and lower according to GLView, 174 extensions.

kick · Post by **kick** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:46 am

The Radeon HD4k series has only one extension more (GL_AMD_texture_texture4).

Interesting stuff.The ATI OpenGL driver already supports some features of Shader Model 5.0

Now WTF is WGL_AMDX_gpu_association?

h4tred · Post by **h4tred** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:07 pm

Shader Model 5.0

WtF. Just when we have enough power with SM3, this shit comes along.

Seriously MS, stop being so retarded. SM3/4 is all we need.

Post by **odditude** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:25 pm

kick wrote:Now WTF is WGL_AMDX_gpu_association?

if i had to make a an out-of-my-ass guess, i'd assume it's the ability to restrict operation to a specific GPU or subset of GPUs in a CrossFire or CrossFireX system (including those with a single multi-GPU card, like the 4850X2 et al).

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:39 pm

h4tred wrote:
Shader Model 5.0
WtF. Just when we have enough power with SM3, this shit comes along.

Seriously MS, stop being so retarded. SM3/4 is all we need.

Marketing is involved somewhere, besides making excuses for new video cards.

kick · Post by **kick** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:01 am

odditude wrote:
kick wrote:Now WTF is WGL_AMDX_gpu_association?
if i had to make a an out-of-my-ass guess, i'd assume it's the ability to restrict operation to a specific GPU or subset of GPUs in a CrossFire or CrossFireX system (including those with a single multi-GPU card, like the 4850X2 et al).

It's the equivalent of 'WGL_NV_gpu_affinity'
But unlike the (workstation-only) nV extension, this one is made to work on consumer cards as well.

h4tred · Post by **h4tred** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:35 am

Marketing is involved somewhere, besides making excuses for new video cards.

Suppose so. They have to milk money somehow I guess.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:37 am

Windows 7 WDDM 1.1 Nvidia drivers are out now. no clue if it supports OpenGL 3.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:10 am

On my 8800gt I have 100% OpenGL 2.1 support with 19/21 OpenGL 3 extensions supported while using the 181.71 WDDM 1.1 drivers.