June 8, 200520 yr Hi all,I ran across an interesting article that says in LOMAC, with the new Cat 5.6, users may see up to 50% increase in performance mainly due to cloud texture compression with ATI catalyst ai.NOTE: This is only for those of us with an ATI Video card.Now, if LOMAC gets an increase off of these, maybe FS9 will too.Here is the article:http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23594From the article:"New Catalyst 5.6 to give big boost to PC games10 to 50 per cent emerged"And this:"The game that will benefit the most is Lock on: Modern Air combat where you will be able to see an incredible fifty per cent performance increase just by installing a new 5.6 Catalyst driver. ATI catalyst AI enables texture compression of the clouds resulting with no visual impact and massive performance impact at the same time."10 to 50% for a driver update is huge gains, if true.... ?Article expects release yesterday, so in a few days perhaps we can find out for ourselves. I guess Tomorrow the 9th for those playing along at home.Also with speed, it will be interesting to see if image quality suffers any. Me, I'm running the Omega 5.4's right now and overclocked the 9600xt to 550.8 / 340.2, but I'm comfortable with that, even though I feel I can go much higher if desired.Stay Tuned,JoeBTW- The inquirer is not exactly known for its acccuracy in reporting, IMHO, and some others.Grab My FREEWARE Voice recognition Profiles here:[a href=http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004misc&DLID=58334]Cessna 172 Voice Profile[/a][a href=http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004misc&DLID=60740]FSD Avanti Voice Profile[/a].You will need the main FREEWARE Flight Assistant program to use it, get it here:[a href=http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=genutils&DLID=39661]Flight Assistant 2.2[/a] CryptoSonar on Twitch & YouTube.
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