City of Heroes: Live Forum Archive

AMD drops OpenGL 4.0 / 3.3 driver

Back_Blast

By Back_Blast,
Posted on: 2010-03-25 15:39 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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A couple days ago I posted that Nvidia had released a preview OpenGL 3.3 driver... which really didn't mean much since Nvidia doesn't actually have any OpenGL 3.3 graphics cards on the market.

Well. AMD's responded. They've now got an OpenGL 3.3... and OpenGL 4.0... driver out for preview, based on the 10.3 driver release. OpenGL 3.3 is supported across the entire RadeonHD lineup, and OpenGL 4.0 is supported on RadeonHD 5xxx series cards.

The driver release is for Windows NT6, Windows NT5, and Linux: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...ew-driver.aspx

*glances over at Television and wonders if this is the driver set he and Kim have been using*

 

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Thanks for the heads up.

Note: do a clean install of these drivers should you decide to use them; I first installed over my previous drivers and ended up with a Grey Screen of Death. Used Driver Sweeper and installed them clean, and things have been running good thus far.

Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."

 

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There any info on when they plan to have a full driver out? I may go ahead and pull the preview but I'm curious to know.

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

 

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I'd be amazed if Ultra Mode used OpenGL 4.0. We'll have to wait until open beta; then, we can get some benchmarking done.

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One BIG improvement found while using this driver is that task-switching now works when running full-screen! I've tried this both with and without desktop composition, and while using a non-Aero theme; it's all good!

Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."