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Old 03-06-2008, 04:58 PM   #16
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Re: Sapphire HD3850 AGP 512MB is IN.. the Good & the Bad...!

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Jumped from 41892 to 45829 points in 3Dmark01, but every other benchmark crashed or just hang at the startup screen. Let's see if the 8.3 drivers are better than sapphires 8.1.

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Wow.. did not have any crashes for now.. gotta finally install the ut3 and play some too ...
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Old 03-09-2008, 06:09 PM   #17
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Re: Sapphire HD3850 AGP 512MB is IN.. the Good & the Bad...!

Nadda.

The 8.3 don't know my card. Still have to use the 8.1's from Sapphire. But games run fine.
And i have to say, running HL2 at 1280x1024, with High settings at an average framerate of 100 fps really does look good.

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Old 03-09-2008, 06:57 PM   #18
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Cool.. also, I'm now running ut3 at full hd+... 1920x1200 !!

Sapphire 421.zip cats work great, even the oc is flawless
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Old 03-10-2008, 08:24 AM   #19
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Re: Sapphire HD3850 AGP 512MB is IN.. the Good & the Bad...!

Just downloaded 421.zip from the sapphire site. Maybe i can bench more with those.

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P.S.: Haven't played Crysis with the new card (doanloading latest patch right now), but S.T.A.L.K.E.R. does look way better now.
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Old 03-11-2008, 05:49 AM   #20
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Sapphire Technology - drivers

NEW various Sapphire cat8.3 AGP are out !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 03-11-2008, 07:46 AM   #21
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Re: Sapphire HD3850 AGP 512MB is IN.. the Good & the Bad...!

Cool!

What's the hotfix for? I guess for the 8.3 cat's from AMD.

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Old 03-11-2008, 07:53 AM   #22
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Re: Sapphire HD3850 AGP 512MB is IN.. the Good & the Bad...!

hotfix is actually the agp cat8.3
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Old 03-11-2008, 09:54 AM   #23
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Re: Sapphire HD3850 AGP 512MB is IN.. the Good & the Bad...!

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Old 03-13-2008, 04:51 AM   #24
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Re: Sapphire HD3850 AGP 512MB is IN.. the Good & the Bad...!

So i have to install the "hotfix" files only?

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P.S.:wow, playing Doom 3 at Ultra settings, BF2 with High settings, CoC DCotE with FSAA, etc. etc. jst wow.
Does AtiTrayTools work with the card? Liked it's fps-display option.
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Old 03-27-2008, 02:11 PM   #25
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Re: Sapphire HD3850 AGP 512MB is IN.. the Good & the Bad...!

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So i have to install the "hotfix" files only?

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P.S.:wow, playing Doom 3 at Ultra settings, BF2 with High settings, CoC DCotE with FSAA, etc. etc. jst wow.
Does AtiTrayTools work with the card? Liked it's fps-display option.
Yes I have addedd the agp references in the latest drivers (8.4) :

But this forum does not allow me to post the link because I'm new ...
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Old 03-27-2008, 06:57 PM   #26
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Sapphire yesterday posted the xp & vista hot fixes for 32 & 64 bit os

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Catalyst 8.3 HOTFIX for AGP cards and WinXP 32-bit (if problems occur by using AGP cards) Mar 26th, 2008 hotfix_xp32_8-471-1-1-080324b-61196 32447.9KB
Catalyst 8.3 HOTFIX for AGP cards and WinXP 64-bit (if problems occur by using AGP cards) Mar 26th, 2008 hotfix_xp64_8-471-1-1-080324b-61196 42403.9KB

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Catalyst 8.3 HOTFIX for AGP cards and VISTA 32-bit (if problems occur by using AGP cards) Mar 26th, 2008 hotfix_vista32_8-471-1-1-080324b-61161 46745.2KB
Catalyst 8.3 HOTFIX for AGP cards and VISTA 64-bit (if problems occur by using AGP cards) Mar 26th, 2008 hotfix_vista64_8-471-1-1-080324b-61161 59088.5KB
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Re: Sapphire HD3850 AGP 512MB is IN.. the Good & the Bad...!

What is AGP?!
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Old 03-28-2008, 04:38 PM   #29
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Got a problem with AGP, pilgrim...!?
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Re: Sapphire HD3850 AGP 512MB is IN.. the Good & the Bad...!

wow its been awhile since ive seen a agp video card.
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