bongsquad

Which non-offial ATI drivers?
I am new these Forums. I have been doing research on how to make the most of my video card, expecially targeting Battlefield 2. I wanted your most up-to-date opinion on that subject....

I am looking for max FPS and fairly high resolutions (1600x1200) for competitive gaming....I don't care about terrain quality or texture quality. I understand that the non-official ati drivers (like omega) have better capabilities to achieve this due to enhanced customizability and other optimizations.

Care to reccomend which ati driver 'brand' (ngo, omega, warcat, etc) is the best suited for these aims in BF2?

Also I would love to know specific optimizations to target. Highly technical responses are cool

PS: I have a x800xl @stock , 2GB RAM @1T, amd64 venice 3200 @stock, ASRock939,

werty316

Well for a 5-10FPS difference can you really tell the difference. Probably not. Anyhow here is a article of the different version of Catalyst tohugh BF2 isn't benched but FEAR is so it can sort give you an idea.

http://www.hardwareoc.at/Catalyst_Ra..._Vergleich.htm

I found a article that covers whet you need and benches of BF2 are there too.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2701&p=9

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zachig

Thanks werty! I found these articles useful for me as well.

bongsquad

thanks for trying, but still haven't seen any corss-driver benchmarks here. One of them did a single benchmark with a single version of omega drivers, but no others. Do I have to do this myself?

werty316

most likely you will; that is the only website I know of that does driver benches. Most benches are down on hardware like a video card or ram for example. I think it better off with just using the whatever you are using now; at 1600*1200 you won't exactly see a difference going from driver A to driver B.

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