Questions about the HD4870/HD4850

[RobotMarvin]

You sure about that...? It doesn't look that way if you consider some postings over at nvnews.net where some of the devs state that they had a look at...

[RobotMarvin]

I only did a few short tests under Vista with the Toxic but it worked flawlessly there, no crashes.



Thanks for your offered...

[RobotMarvin]

I already read your suggestion yesterday in some other thread and I have to agree with the folks there: no atieventsd here either. Sorry. I haven't checked...

[RobotMarvin]

Sure. :-)



Sorry to disappoint you but I was using the latest Catalyst (8.7) and I had all those issues with it.

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[RobotMarvin]

my experience

Hello all.

It seemed only fair that after I initially started this thread that I would also write a few bits...

[RobotMarvin]

Great news. I haven't realized so much was happening behind the scenes. It's a pitty that there is no special AMD/ATI Open Source page that tries to compile...

[RobotMarvin]

Ok that's rather bad being stuck to OpenGL < 1.4 while using the open drivers because I do GL programming myself. :-( I guess there is no work in this...

[RobotMarvin]

I see. Video playback through OpenGL is still not very sophisticated and the only player I know of which pretty much works in this regard is mplayer-...

[RobotMarvin]

A lot of informations, thanks everyone! Even though I am more and more tending to get myself a HD4870 card, there are still some obscurities. I hope...

[RobotMarvin]

Hello everyone.

I am still considering replacing my 8600 GTS card with a new HD4870 or HD4850 one, mainly because of its 2d performance...

[RobotMarvin]

Thanks for all the comments and insights on this. I was afraid that the video playback issue was not solved yet and I am also a bit surprised because...

[RobotMarvin]

Hello everyone.

I have already searched through the forum to answer my questions by myself, unfortunately all I found was rather inconclusive,...