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#1 Feb 21 2011 at 3:07 PM Rating: Good

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I just noticed that ATI released a new set of Catalyst drivers on the 15th. Has anyone had the chance to update to these?

I'm hoping they'll fix the slowdowns I get with my HD 4300 laptop GPU (confluxes, avatars, etc.).

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst112ReleaseNotes.aspx

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#2 Feb 23 2011 at 1:17 PM Rating: Good

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I was excited when I saw this and quickly updated my drivers to try it out. Then I quickly rolled back. The new drivers and my FFXI didn't get along well. At all Smiley: laugh

The first very major annoyance was that my HP/MP bars didn't render. They would just stay as blank gray squares. This also applied to similar bars such as the sounds effects/music bars within the menu.
Certain default and modified chatlog backgrounds were also blank.
The screen overall was just sort of fuzzy and didn't look crisp like it used to.
Certain terrain features were blocky and didn't display properly.

That said, sometimes they would randomly all pop up and work at once, but it would take a good 10-15 minutes for it all to spring to life. After rolling back my drivers everything immediately worked perfect again.

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#3 Feb 23 2011 at 2:48 PM Rating: Decent

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I updated too and haven't had any problems, but nor have I seen any performance improvements. I'm on windows 7, Radeon HD4300.

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#4 Feb 23 2011 at 3:08 PM Rating: Decent

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Works fine for me after I remembered how awkward it is to update ATI drivers and reinstall it correctly Smiley: glare

. I noticed as usual, increase in performance in XIV, but with XI it's basically the same honestly lol.

I believe the last driver update fixed my slowdown around confluxs (confluxies? o.O)

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#5 Feb 23 2011 at 3:12 PM Rating: Decent

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I believe the last driver update fixed my slowdown around confluxs (confluxies? o.O)

Really, sucks to be me then. I can barely select things from menus when there's a conflux around. Have you tweaked any of your other settings, turned things off? What Card/OS are you running?

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#6 Feb 23 2011 at 3:46 PM Rating: Good

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blowfin wrote:

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I believe the last driver update fixed my slowdown around confluxs (confluxies? o.O)

Really, sucks to be me then. I can barely select things from menus when there's a conflux around. Have you tweaked any of your other settings, turned things off? What Card/OS are you running?

I did do the basic graphics tweaks for FFXI (bigger resolution etc.) but nothing beyond that. I use Windows 7 Ultimate (64bit) and XFX HD 5770 ( This card..)

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#7 Feb 25 2011 at 3:11 PM Rating: Good

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Mistress Theonehio wrote:

Works fine for me after I remembered how awkward it is to update ATI drivers and reinstall it correctly Smiley: glare

. I noticed as usual, increase in performance in XIV, but with XI it's basically the same honestly lol.

I believe the last driver update fixed my slowdown around confluxs (confluxies? o.O)

May I ask what settings you use then in CCC? I noticed they added a few new features (Morphological filtering, tessellation, w/e the hell those mean or how they relate to FFXI). Problem is something changed and it's causing me too many issues with FFXI atm, like HP/MP, casting bars etc not showing up at all in game.

I was really hoping I could get this working, as there are a few things that will completely lock up my PC, forcing me to completely turn off/on. It's not 100%, but certain jas/ws as well as the maw CS when you try to enter one will cause me to crash =/

Edit: To show you what I mean by stuff not showing up:

instead of:

Edited, Feb 25th 2011 5:01pm by Reiterpallasch

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