ATI Catalyst Driver Release Notes:

One Section Reads:

Quote:

Borderlands * Performance increases 3-5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series single card and CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled * Performance increases 3-8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 single card and CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled * Performance increases 2-6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5600 and ATI Radeon™ HD 5500 series single card configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled * Performance increases 2-10% on ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 series single card and CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled

Fucking sweet right?

Yeah... then read on...

Quote:

"Borderlands" may intermittently fail after a duration of gameplay

Guys and gals at ATI... No one in their right mind would agree to a 3-8% speed increase at the guaranteed risk of the game crashing. How bad is this problem? You get 5-10 minutes of game time and then the game crashes. Why would this push be made without an immediate fix?

http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/catalyst_107_release_notes.pdf


Doesn't anyone at AMD read what the company publishes prior to it being put out? How could this not be spotted?

Knyte wrote:

If you are still playing Borderlands, then skip this release of drivers. I mean 3%-8% isn't much. If you are running under 30FPS, then you're only getting an extra 2-3 FPS. Not going to help much. And if your running over 60FPS, then it doesn't really matter.

I generally keep up with the drivers and didn't see that particular known flaw. The game kept crashing so I went and did a quick bit of searching until I came across it.

I opted to roll back to 10.6.

I still think this is a huge issue. They proclaimed speed increases and created crashes. This is the type of release that should never be distributed as a final release.