[Bf-committers] Ati-Testing

[Bart]

I test on WinXP (8500) and Win2k (9700pro).

Nick Winters wrote:

> how do the current drivers (4.10) behave that is a problem?
> 
> but the traditional gfx card problems are:
> * aa on [forced] messes things up [it doesn't seem to on my 9600, just
> makes icons and text in blender blurry].  I belive nvidia cards were
> more likely to become unusable than ati ones, but I could be wrong
> * slow menus [drawing and erasing]
> * slowdown after an extended period of use [I'm not sure exactly the
> fewest functions possible to make this visible, and I believe it was
> fixed by kester
> http://www.blender.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=3789
> ].  This would be noticable if in about 5 minutes of using blender,
> after for example rotating the 3d view, blender would become
> unresponsive for about a second.  as more things are done in blender,
> this delay where blender is unresponsive gets longer and longer.
> 
> [and, iirc blender 2.23 and earlier [versions that used glut still?...
> I think somebody mentioned that] did not have this problem, and
> neither did ati catalyst driver versions about 3.7 or 3.6 and earlier]
> 
> oh, what version of windows are you going to test on?
> 
> 
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:50:29 +0100, Bart <bart at neeneenee.de> wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Ati has released new Catalyst drivers (4.11) i will test them with
>>Blender on a Radeon 8500 and a 9700pro using the Win-CVS 040811 and
>>hoping any thing will be fine.
>>
>>Any thing to keep an eye on?
>>
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