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   #23. Posted at 03:16 PM on Oct 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
eitje
Supreme Commander ... The ATI Radeon™ X1650 and ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 series products see even greater improvements of 82% or more.

....wow.
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#23, My Macbook Pro quivers in anticipation!  :  Kurlon  (#26)  «
#26, HAH! You sir, are a notebook user. Prepare NOT to enjoy th...  :  A_Pickle  (#38)  «
#23, This is what ATI claims  :  maroon1  (#30)  «
#23, x1300.. does supreme commander get more than 1fps on these c...  :  sigher  (#47)  «

   #46. Posted at 11:52 AM on Oct 10th 2007 Edit   Reply
sigher
So if you disable that "intelligence" in control panel does it still speed up? or are these gamespecific speedups that only work in the specific game and require that intelligent detection to use the tricks meant for that game.
Would be nice to know what is really optimized in general and what parts are just tricks, but I guess that's too much to ask from the graphicscard manufacturers.
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   #14. Posted at 02:36 PM on Oct 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
Vrock
Mmmm, quack3! ;)
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#14, Nvidia is probably doing the same darn tricks, but nobody is...  :  Krogoth  (#40)  «
#40, At the end of the day -- it only really helps the consume...  :  StashTheVampede  (#41)  «
#41, Co-Op is exactly the reason i DON'T like WoW. I've tri...  :  Corrado  (#45)  «

   #11. Posted at 02:02 PM on Oct 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
Chaseme
'Shoot em up'...ya nice marketing. I see AMD is still using some terrible marketing team to push there products
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#11, This is right up there with FASN8! They should stop giving t...  :  Sanctusx2  (#36)  «
#11, Shouldn't "shoot 'em up" drivers help with old arcade games ...  :  Mithent  (#44)  «

   #1. Posted at 11:48 AM on Oct 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
herothezero
How do you get an 80% performance improvement in CoH? Was it that bad to start?
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#1, Probably the same way Nvidia did during the 5x00 series. Che...  :  Sargent Duck  (#2)  «
#1, Well IIRC the game is roughly 2 times as slow in DX10 compar...  :  poulpy  (#4)  «
#1, From 1 FPS to 1.8 FPS with an HD 2400. ;)  :  Archer  (#5)  «
#1, That gain is only in Crossfire configs, more than likely the...  :  jdevers  (#6)  «
#6, Quite obvious, since CrossFire currently has an uncanny k...  :  Meadows  (#8)  «
#8, Seriously, I haven't seen one review were Crossfire sl...  :  Rza79  (#13)  «
#13, Hey, tell us how ya' really feel...  :  bdwilcox  (#15)  «
#15, I think i did.  :  Rza79  (#16)  «
#16, I tend to agree with Rza here. We don't need ...  :  ew  (#18)  «
#13, heres one: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/gefor...  :  mortifiedPenguin  (#24)  «
#24, I wouldn't call that an uncanny knack for reduci...  :  ew  (#27)  «
#24, Well that's not "across the board" it's on 1 gam...  :  poulpy  (#28)  «
#28, admittedly yes, not across the board. but you...  :  mortifiedPenguin  (#29)  «
#13, I'd be most interested in knowing what criteria you...  :  Sargent Duck  (#25)  «
#25, Not really. Yours is stupid. What they say are po...  :  Rza79  (#33)  «
#33, He says it because it has happened before. Se...  :  lethal  (#35)  «
#33, It's exactly people like you posting stupid s...  :  Sargent Duck  (#37)  «
#1, 80% number is probably the max gain they saw... They should ...  :  lolento  (#12)  «
#1, Well :D you should look deeper at the hd2000 architecture :D...  :  DancingWind  (#43)  «

   #42. Posted at 02:57 AM on Oct 10th 2007, Edited at 02:57 AM on Oct 10th 2007 Edit   Reply
DukenukemX
Battlefield 2142?
Company of Heroes?
FEAR?

Maybe it's time that PC gaming got some more developers making more games. I guess I should be thankful that AMD didn't improve 3Dmark performance.

It's sad that I'm using my Athlon 64 X2 and Radeon 1950 GT to play WoW. The only game I got to look forward too is HL2 episode 2 which I'll beat in probably about 6 hours. Oh and lets not forget Portals which is probably even shorter. Best of all I get to play a game I've lost sleep over back in the quake days, Team Fortress.

I think the industry needs a clue already. If WoW is the most popular game then maybe someone should look into why. Here's a hint it's called Co-op. A game where you play with other people in real time online. If WoW were a single player game it would suck, but it's the co-op that really makes it great.
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   #17. Posted at 02:43 PM on Oct 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
maroon1
People need to check this
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/DirectX10-Geforce-Radeon,review-29666...

Nvidia got a really huge boast in performance in some DX10 titles with the latest drivers

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#17, those are 162.22 and they are not the latest driver. in fact...  :  toyota  (#20)  «
#20, I'm running the 163.75 Beta's with no issues.  :  indeego  (#31)  «
#17, That THG round-up is bogus, most of the DX10 benches were de...  :  Krogoth  (#39)  «

   #32. Posted at 05:45 PM on Oct 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
Space Bags
Would you guys be able to benchmark, just a little bit, the cards when new drivers come out. I want to see what I'm buying at the time I'm buying it, now when it launched. The 2900 XT has had huge improvements, but all I can find online is all old drivers, it'd be nice if someone did updates monthly.
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#32, There you go: http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1184/ati_cat...  :  Rza79  (#34)  «

   #19. Posted at 02:53 PM on Oct 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
ssidbroadcast
Hopefully these drivers are better than the movie of the same name.
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#19, That movie ruled!  :  A_Pickle  (#22)  «

   #21. Posted at 03:06 PM on Oct 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
Vaughn
Looks ok, but I see far too many improvements for the lowend budget cards that you couldn't pay me to game on. I'm currently using a X1950Pro which has been great for me so for. However, I've been itching to try the X2900 series. Sad fact is AA still cripples this card, and the drivers won't fix this. So i'll be skipping this gen and checking out the refresh products which should fix AA hopefully. Or I'll have to buy a NV card which is something i've not done in along time.
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   #10. Posted at 01:57 PM on Oct 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
flip-mode
Dayum.
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   #9. Posted at 01:04 PM on Oct 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
provoko
Good for AMD/ATI. AMD really got out the whip and making ATI drivers very professional especially compared to Nividia.
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   #7. Posted at 12:14 PM on Oct 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
wingless
AWESOME! I can't wait to see if their numbers are backed up with real world performance.
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   #3. Posted at 11:53 AM on Oct 9th 2007, Edited at 11:54 AM on Oct 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
poulpy
Missed the Reply button..
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