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ATI Catalyst 8.3: OpenGL Extensions

Posted on March 16, 2008 by JeGX

Here is the list of OpenGL extensions supported by Catalyst 8.3 drivers. There are 96 extensions. Drivers Version: 8.471.0.0 – Catalyst 08.3 ATI Catalyst Version String: 08.3 ATI Catalyst Release Version String: 8.471-080225a1-059746C-ATI

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Catalyst 8.1 GLSL lighting bug fixed

Posted on January 17, 2008 by JeGX

The previous catalyst (7.11 / 7.12) had a nasty bug in dynamic lights management in GLSL. I’ve just tested the latest Catalyst 8.1 WHQL with the Demoniak3D demo I coded for, and the bug has been fixed. In the release … Continue reading →

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A cumbersome bug in the Catalyst 7.12

Posted on January 10, 2008 by JeGX

The latest Catalyst version is the 7.12 (the Cat7.12 internal number is 8.442.0.0). But exactly like the Cat7.11, these drivers have a bug in the management of dynamic lights in GLSL. But this time, I searhed for the source of … Continue reading →

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Les Catalyst 7.12 toujours à la sauce “Bug-Inside”

Posted on January 10, 2008 by JeGX

Les derniers pilotes Catalyst ont la version 7.12 (le numéro interne des Cat7.12 est le 8.442.0.0 – c’est pas un téléphone ok!). Mais exactement comme les 7.11, ces drivers ont un bug dans la gestion des lumières dynamiques en GLSL. … Continue reading →

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Les nouveaux Catalyst 7.11 à la sauce “Bug-Inside”

Posted on December 10, 2007 by JeGX

ATI vient de nous livrer les nouveaux Catalyst 7.11 pour nos belles Radeon. Mais on dirait que ça commence à être une habitude chez les petits gars d’ATI de nous pondre des pilotes bogués surtout pour les nouvelles cartes! Souvenez-vous … Continue reading →

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Catalyst 7.9, Radeon 2900 and Surface Deformer

Posted on September 12, 2007 by JeGX

From oZone3D.Net Forums, the Catalyst 7.9 seems to unleash ATI Radeon 2900 GPU. The Surface Deformer benchmark is a benchmark that requires a lot of vertex processing horse power. With Catalyst prior to 7.9, the score of an ATI 2900 … Continue reading →

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Catalyst 7.9 and Radeon 2K Shadow Mapping Bug

Posted on September 12, 2007 by JeGX

I found this bug while I was coding a new small soft shadows demo for GPU Caps Viewer. Soft shadows are built on shadow mapping and my OpenGL shadow mapping code works perfectly on all Geforce 6/7/8 and Radeon 1k … Continue reading →

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Uniform Arrays in GLSL

Posted on August 8, 2006 by JeGX

A new version of the Soft Shadows Benchmark is available but this time using uniform arrays to pass the blurring kernel to the pixel shader. On nVidia boards, there is a little increase of speed (1 or 2 fps). On … Continue reading →

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