Hi all,I just upgraded my ATI 7.1's to the latest 8.3's and am happy to report that in using FSX, there is a marketable improvement in the fluidity of the sim. I also get faster graphic updates on ground textures as compared to my bench-7.1'sI give the the new 8.3's an FSX-Thumb's up! :)

Hi,I tried them over the weekend and in 3DMark06 I got 8191. With 8.2 it was 14307. Maybe with Vista they're better but for XP they're disasterous!I'm waiting for 8.4.

I find the same with my system (AGP card, XP, FS9) - the 8.2 is massively better than the 8.3 for me in FS9 and in benchmarksGeoff

Must be something XP related. I've noticed a slight performance increase in most games. Certainly no loss of performance. And I love the gpu resolution scaling...

>Hi,>>I tried them over the weekend and in 3DMark06 I got 8191. With>8.2 it was 14307. Maybe with Vista they're better but for XP>they're disasterous!>>I'm waiting for 8.4.----------------------------------------------------------Well..after reading your benchmarks, I had the time, so scrubbed the 8.3's and downloaded/installed the 8.2's.I see about the same performance improvement on my P4 3.4GHz/ATI 1950 Pro setup. If there was any actual performance given from the 8.2's over the 8'3s...it (my case) might be my wanting there to be, so a placebo effect. But no matter, they BOTH were a vast improvement from my having used the 7.1's---and THEY were stellar! :) They (both 8.x's)are so close, that I shall just stick with the 8.2's for now.Either way, 8.2, or 8.3---both are performance winners on my machine when using the 7.1's as a base flying FSX.Mitch

The 8.3's definatley increase performance, more noticeably in games like crysis than fsx, but they also have a bug that causes stuttering in most applications including fsx, afaik there is a hotfix that will be released any day now for this issue.

Just saw on rage3d that that hotfix is out http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default...uestionID=33033let us know how you get on with it

Just installed it, the only game i have tried yet was crysis and it does help to fix the stuttering, but its still not gone completley.

>Just installed it, the only game i have tried yet was crysis>and it does help to fix the stuttering, but its still not gone>completley.----------------------------I ran the 8.3's again with the hotfix...and found that it downgraded one x.dllI also found no improvement whatsoever. I then scrubbed 'em and went back to the 8.2's.I did notice that after the hotfix, the info said that the driver suite was not 8.3, but 8.4. If this will be the actual 8.4 release...then I will stick with the 8.2's for now. I also ran a registry cleaner before I went back to the 8.2 suite just to be sure there were no left references to anything of the 8.3's and/or the hotfix.I had about 7 CUSTOM CONTROLS still left in my REGISTRY even after having used the ATI software removal tool in the ADD/REMOVE screen.I highly suggest to all that you regularly clean your REGISTRY of latent entries. It speeds up your system on top of Nick's XPSP2 tune-up