ATi Catalyst 9.6 Download

[Basil Brush 10]

Its not just the flickering which is a sizable bug to me but the slow loading/changing textures just makes the game feel so unrealistic on top of that we have lack of AA support and that just makes me not want to bother playing.

Then I see this has been downgrade to 'normal' priority? umm why?. Its strange how no one from BIS seems to have any comment on this issue.

[MehMan 0]

Ask kju. ArmA2 devs don't moderate devheaven

[guy123 10]

@ Basil Brush: yeah I get that issue bad! With the new drivers, it seems textures load quicker when the memory is set to 'very high'. Its still present, just less noticeable. (In cities, however, that is a completely different story...)

But BIS still need to sort it out, that pissed me off seeing the priority changed, for me its the most prolific and annoying bug of them all, if they only fixed one thing, it would be this, lol.

[kklownboy 43]

Its not just the flickering which is a sizable bug to me but the slow loading/changing textures just makes the game feel so unrealistic on top of that we have lack of AA support and that just makes me not want to bother playing.

Then I see this has been downgrade to 'normal' priority? umm why?. Its strange how no one from BIS seems to have any comment on this issue.

because it doesnt happen to everybody, and it may be a H/W issue on your part... and or setting in game.

[guy123 10]

@kklownboy: While I do agree everyone computer is different. I've heard of this problem from a lot of unhappy peeps, myself included (I still get it, just had to live with everything turned down to high (from very high)).

[Basil Brush 10]

because it doesnt happen to everybody, and it may be a H/W issue on your part... and or setting in game.

Well it has happened on both my old pc and new pc, one with Nvidia one with ATI card. I have tried every variable setting in game.

[kklownboy 43]

Well it has happened on both my old pc and new pc, one with Nvidia one with ATI card. I have tried every variable setting in game.

well you only have 3gb of ram with xp, and your card is only 512mb, You will find that vista and win7 will be much smoother ect, i hope in a patch they can help with the lod issues on xp systems... then there is the HDD and pagefile.

[Publicglutton 10]

The ATI Catalystâ„¢ 9.6 have just been released 2 minutes ago , they may be the solution to all the graphics issues ....or at least some of them ...:)

Get them here:-

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

Edited June 15, 2009 by Publicglutton

[amadieus 0]

yay lets hope it works

[Horus 83]

..and BIS plz release DEMO now ;)

[PsychoPigeon 10]

thanks downloading

[thr0tt 12]

Its exactly the same version that was 'leaked' a week a go. Fantastic ! No fixes then if you already are using the 'leaked' set.

Need to wait yet another month now for any sort of fix for the problem some of us are having with artifacts.

[thr0tt 12]

Officially relased now:

;-----------------------------------------------

;----------0905291343-8.62-090520m1-081744C-ATI

;-----------------------------------------------

; ATI Display Information file : ATIIXPAG.INF

; Installation INF for the ATI display driver.

; Copyright© 1998-2004 ATI Technologies Inc.

; Windows XP

; Base INF Last Updated 2005/11/01

[Version]

Signature="$Windows NT$"

Provider=%ATI%

ClassGUID={4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Class=Display

DriverVer=05/15/2009, 8.620.0.0000

CatalogFile=CX_81744.CAT

Looks to be the same... I hope some are able to play on Friday when they get the game otherwise these forums are going to be stuffed full of folk with the artifact issue.

[Horus 83]

From Guru3D.com:

The files' date is 5/16 for official release and rflair's one is 5/5. Some files' size is different. So, I think the official one is much newer.

[thr0tt 12]

May be slightly different sizes but I can confirm they don't fix the issue.

[jamesf1 0]

I'm getting some terrible issues (not Arma2 related, strictly) with the new 9.6's on my HD 4850 512MB. Whenever trying to enable/disable a screen display, I get the red 'bars' that are used for the load tests (on the primary monitor)... and they just don't go away, they stay there until everything locks up and then the system reboots. Fun times. Had the same problem with the 9.5's (though, less frequently).

It got so bad, it wouldn't even initialise the screen on boot... had to uninstall the drivers in safe mode :(

Back to 9.4's I go, it seems. Though, if anyone has any ideas... I'd happily take 'em :)

Edited June 15, 2009 by JamesF1

[UNA-C-Blade 0]

I realy hoop they fix that flikkering its just unplayble for me i dont get how they mist this problem ?

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Graphic Card: ATi Radeon 4870 X2

RAM: Geil 2x 2024 GB

Motherboard: ASUS Maximus SE

HDD: Sygate Baraccuda 500 GB

Monitor: Samsung SM T220 22 Zoll (1680 x 1050)

Mouse: Logitech G9

Keyboard: Logitech G19

Soundcard: Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium

[moosenoodles 0]

Just installed the official cats 9.6 that were just released, 10 days diff on the file date and some files are diff in size also (compared to early leaked release 9.6), all I can say is, stunning job, personally im seeing a very good performance increase here.

[moosenoodles 0]

Just installed these, im seeing a very good improvement here.. no poping of textures no lag when at a base even if its on mass fire, turning around and running in said location is no diff all smooth and instant, all on very high.

Strange stuff but seems good so far.

[raedor 8]

Merged the other Catalyst 9.6 thread in here.

[moosenoodles 0]

Thanks for the merge, but how about now deleting one of those posts of mine lol? makes sense right.

[moosenoodles 0]

Spotted another thing odd after installing the official 9.6 cats look what arma2 recognised this setting at?

3D_Performance=-4194304; << wtf lol its been recently either 100000 or 80000 that is a big number difference compared huh... Also compared to all the other entries im seeing they dont have the =- << negative sign.. only other option that does is this.

adapter=-1; << here

3D_Performance=100000; << what mine used to show

most odd indeed, whats right whats wrong, whats bugged whats broken whats not lol.. you decide hehe.

But the fairly good thing is I just played a full setting game with 4 people and it was stable at 60 fps, I give up hehe it works it seems when it wants to.

Edited June 16, 2009 by moosenoodles

[thr0tt 12]

Just curious if I am the only one getting massive screen corruption still ? The screen goes grey with flickering artifacts all over the screen ?

I am sure its not only me but just testing the water, I guess it will become more of an issue if its a driver / game issue when the demo is released and the EU version hits the shelves. Nothing like reactive support.

[moosenoodles 0]

Ive only seen grey polys no textures when say the mission is about to start and u get that jump from initiating part to when u finaly get in game, its like a quick view flash u get sometimes of the scene then black then waiting screen again then sound then game finaly pops in.

other than that no texture loading issues once in game.

[UNA-C-Blade 0]

well stil have the flikkering problem so the 9.6 dident help me :mad: