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#21. Posted at 10:31 AM on Feb 14th 2008

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cegras

Colour palette was screwed up. E.g. the bolded blue letters in google become red.

#21, thank you, i thought i was going crazy. : donkeycrock (#22) «

#20. Posted at 10:30 AM on Feb 14th 2008

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cegras

I remove then install. Yeah, that means re-enabling overdrive too.

#19. Posted at 10:11 AM on Feb 14th 2008, Edited at 10:12 AM on Feb 14th 2008

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derFunkenstein

WoW has an OpenGL mode on Windows? I wonder if it's half as broken as the Mac version, where Full Screen Glow and the Death Effect basically halve your FPS.

#1. Posted at 04:56 PM on Feb 13th 2008

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reckless_meanie66

I think Company of Heroes performance has quadrupled since version 7.4. People with ATI cards must be getting a bizillion frames per second.

#1, If you look at the old DX10 CoH numbers on AMD hardware, I t... : SNM (#12) «

#12, It was a joke. I think it's funny that every time a new A... : reckless_meanie66 (#15) «

#15, Maybe CoH optimizations are because ASUS bundles CoH w... : asdsa (#16) «

#1, well, 4x1 is only 4, so quadrupled performance is just relat... : derFunkenstein (#18) «

#13. Posted at 07:03 AM on Feb 14th 2008

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cegras

No more square, firefox colours fixed. Tis a good day.

#13, what was wrong with foxy's colors? I didn't notice anything ... : asdsa (#14) «

#13, are you getting funny colors in web pages? like bold red, an... : donkeycrock (#17) «

#3. Posted at 06:37 PM on Feb 13th 2008

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l33t-g4m3r

I'm more interested in bug fixes, stability, and overall improvement instead of specific optimizations.

#3, Why are game specific optimizations bad? I'll be dead honest... : StashTheVampede (#4) «

#4, Because often this "optimization" for game speeds comes a... : indeego (#5) «

#5, When a game gets patched, the outdated optimizations c... : l33t-g4m3r (#6) «

#5, Lets be honest here: there are A LOT of PC games. Coun... : StashTheVampede (#7) «

#7, https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com... : indeego (#8) «

#8, that's probably because the bugs have lasted tha... : l33t-g4m3r (#10) «

#7, Once a game is old enough it doesn't need optimizat... : BobbinThreadbare (#9) «

#9, I think it's more a matter of diminishing return... : Usacomp2k3 (#11) «

#2. Posted at 05:06 PM on Feb 13th 2008

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pluscard

AMD claims that nvidia outspends it when it comes to getting games coded to use gpu features. AMD is working on correcting that this year, but is also heavily optimizing the drivers. This is the version that anandtech supposedly used to show big crossfire improvement in Crysis.