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ATI Folders Be Sure To Use CATALYST 8.12 Drivers

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:02 am
by Apoptosis
ATI Folders Be Sure To Use CATALYST 8.12 Drivers:
ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 Folding@Home performance enhancements
* Using ATI Stream™ technology, owners of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of graphics accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 (just click on the Folding@Home desktop shortcut installed with ATI Catalyst 8.12 to download the client)

Re: ATI Folders Be Sure To Use CATALYST 8.12 Drivers

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:09 am
by DMB2000uk
foldingforums reports that the performance boost isn't enabled yet
mhouston wrote:You will need an updated core. Note that by default folding@home uses the older CAL dlls (not the ones supplied with the new driver) as the new DLLs have not been validated on all platforms just yet.
mhouston wrote:8.12 contains updated dlls that we will switch over to at a later date, so for now you will not see a performance change with 8.12 until that switch occurs and/or the newer cores are made public.
Hope they get the new core out soon.

Dan