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How Good are the DNA-Drivers for ATI Cards?

Posted by Cliff on from the worth-the-download dept.

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?"

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  1. DNA Drivers... by eviltypeguy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's no code difference between these drivers and "the real thing". These are just drivers that have had registry tweaks and DLL mix and matching done.

    Read/Search the forums on http://www.driverheaven.net/ or http://www.rage3d.com/ and you'll find people that do comparison benchmarks with those drivers and the Omega drivers http://www.omegacorner.com/.

  2. Re:Get an NVidia by j.bellone · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's funny, because ATi's drivers are one of the main reasons why a lot of people's Half-Life 2 games are failing right now. Driverheaven.net has information on the problem. nVIDIA's drivers are probably the best video drivers you'll ever find, and their support for Linux is nearly as good as the Windows. ATi's has recently gotten better.

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