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#1 Zaber123
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The 7.8 Catalyst drivers have been leaked. From what I've read they show some pretty substantial performance gains for the 2x00 series cards. I've also heard they fix the AA performance issues the 2x00s have had.

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This happened about a week ago but I just thought I'd let everyone know as it's the first time I've seen anything.

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#2 Rhein_NV
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getting ready to try it out. that dl site isn't working for me so I am dling off of softpedia
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#3 Baselerd
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I'll just wait for the official one, but I read that. I read on some forum of stories of people gaining up to 50-80 fps in 16xAA situations.

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#4 Marfoo
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The 7.8 Catalyst drivers have been leaked. From what I've read they show some pretty substantial performance gains for the 2x00 series cards. I've also heard they fix the AA performance issues the 2x00s have had.

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This happened about a week ago but I just thought I'd let everyone know as it's the first time I've seen anything.

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They weren't leaked, they were made available to people signed up for Catalyst Beta. These are probably a substantial jump from 7.7 they need a wider audience to test it because their in house testing can't cover the whole spectrum for this release.
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#5 Baselerd
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Ok, so I just installed the beta drivers, and they are amazing, simply put. I never expected to gain another 30-40% performance with a driver update.

With the 7.7 drivers in vista I got average of 45ish fps with 4xAA in oblivion in the great forest @ 1280x1024. Now with 8xAAwith the 7.8 beta drivers Iget average of 62 fps.... thats better than a gtx. 16xAA gives me 57fps.

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#6 jjj13
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I just upgraded to 7.7 :P. Downloading.
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#7 Zaber123
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These really do sound incredible. The 2900's biggest weakness was it's AA performance hit, and now that it's been fixed I can't wait to get my 2900.