How Good are the DNA-Drivers for ATI Cards?

dark_requiem asks: "I've been digging around online to find some way to pump a bit more power out of my Radeon 9800 for Half-Life2, and I ran across DNA-Drivers. According to the developer, these are hacked versions of the official Catalyst drivers, optimized for speed and image quality. I've been trying to find a good review of the performance of these drivers, but haven't found much. Has anyone tried these before? Are they stable? What kind of performance advantage do they offer?"

Comments

Re:Get an NVidia

[shepd]

Much better Linux support

Until, of course, NVidia goes out of business or just chooses to stop supporting your card. Then you can throw it out at the next kernel revision.

Unlike some of you that seem to buy video cards yearly, my Radeon VIVO, which I bought the first day they were made, is till being used in my computer. I believe it's about 5 years old right now. I very highly doubt that in 5 years Nvidia will still support your super-duper-expensive video card.

Some of us would rather use a somewhat "slower" card from a manufacturer that embraces the linux open source community and doesn't abuse the kernel's licensing.

I was a "fan" of NVidia until I realized I'd have to use their soiled binaries on my machine. Then I realized I wanted to go back. So I did.

My expeience with manufacturers' soiled binaries on my linux machines has always been less than adequate. Starting with my old expensive telemann DTP-200 (or whatever the model number was) which they were still selling after kernel 2.4 but decided they'd end support at kernel 2.2, all the way to my VP-1020 card that said linux on the box, but surprise surprise, nothing at all from the manufacturer. There's, of course, an open source driver now from third parties, no thanks to Vision Plus.

better suport from open source application

This is why you were marked troll. They have no support for open source at all. This is an out and out lie.