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(Post a comment) » Catalyst 5.13: ATI's Video Domination?ATI owners (and prospective owners) must have been good this year because Santa has brought the thirteenth Catalyst driver release of 2005. With this new version, ATI claims that they've raised the bar in video performance and set the stage for worldwide "video dominATIon." Our tests show that Catalyst 5.13 is the greatest leap in video quality technology for ATI since the original Mach64-VT.
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Anonymous at 07:35am 12/22/2005
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thanks for bursting my bubble. i was hoping to use this new driver
on my x800xt.
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Anonymous at 01:25pm 12/19/2005
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Omfg, I am tired of you people asking and saying the same things
over and over again. READ THIS.
1. The AVIVO technology and the improvements seen in video quality
are ONLY available to the X1xxx series cards. Those are the: X1300,
X1300 Pro, X1600, X1600 Pro, X1600 XT, X1800 XL, X1800 XL A-I-W,
X1800 XT. AVIVO was implemented after the X800 and X850 series were
released and during the development of the X1000 series. No card
older than that can support AVIVO.
2. It doesn't matter if you use the 150$ 6600 GT or a 500$ 7800 GTX.
The only difference is in gaming, both feature the same video
performance.
3. To the guy who keeps bashing ATI, let's see you forge a company
with your own skills, knowledge, hard work and funds and have it be
around 20 year's later as one of the best discreet-video card
manufaturers in the world.
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GX-Alan at 12:25pm 12/19/2005
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To add some more detail to that post. The GeForce 6600GT and 7800
have the same MPEG-2 capabilities in terms of both decode and video
quality. I don't want you to think of this as being a negative for
the 7800 -- it's nice that you can get NVIDIA PureVideo on a
lower-end card, and remember it's been the best for video quailty
for a year (up until Catalyst 5.13).
For H.264, the 7800 series is better than the 6600GT and when NVIDIA
has their H.264 drivers ready, we will give it a look.
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Anonymous at 10:40pm 12/18/2005
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they used a 6600gt, because it has all of the purevideo features
(unlike 6800gt and ultra's), and, a lot of people have them, so it
makes sense to use a card that has those two qualities. as far as i
know, purevideo implementation isn't any different in the 6800nu,
and any of the 7800 series. but again,the 6800gt and ultra ended
being designed wrong so only support some of the features.
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GX-Alan at 09:56pm 12/18/2005
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The color differences are because the overlay is a direct to DAC
whereas the VMR goes through the LUT. If you alter your gamma or
calibrate your monitor using Adobe Gamma or a dedicated colorimeter,
those changes will be present with video played back through the
VMR.
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xephyris (View my Profile) at 09:15pm 12/18/2005
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Actually, I've noticed that using VMR9 tends to make the video look
kinda greenish on my nvidia 6600 - it's not terribly noticeable, but
you can see the difference going for overlay to VMR9 (also, things
sometimes look very smoothed out or jagged, although that might be
just me) - so maybe it affects single monitor setups somewhat as
well?
I'm using MPC for my playback, so perhaps that might have something
to do with it as well.
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GX-Alan at 12:21pm 12/18/2005
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That first one only affects dual monitor. Go with smart, pixel
adaptive and enable high-quality mode in Windows Media Player for
the best results. This will have your video going through the VMR,
allowing higher-precision decode and the ability to apply LUT based
color correction if that's your thing.
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Anonymous at 09:50am 12/18/2005
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ATI makes the worst drivers EVER. They actually hire moose to write
their drivers. Oh Canada.....so SO BACKWARD.
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