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Catalyst 8.9 beta's (8.54) Vista only ?

deuse said:
I think you guys with a 4870 should read this
http://en.expreview.com/2008/08/26/...ze-catalyst-for-furmark-making-it-run-slower/

Is the VRM cooling not as good as it should be?
If so I can see problems ahead.

Or maybe there is another reason, but I cant think of one atm
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Read it and it does concern me that the vrm cooling is not up to furmark but that's it.

So long as my overclocked card is stable in all the games I play, which it is, then I couldn't care less about furmark tbh.
 
Greebo said:
Read it and it does concern me that the vrm cooling is not up to furmark but that's it.

So long as my overclocked card is stable in all the games I play, which it is, then I couldn't care less about furmark tbh.
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I hear what your saying Greebo.

A friend maybe going to get a gig version.
Do you think that maybe some games may make this happen?
and ATI are doing the same to there exe?
 
deuse said:
I hear what your saying Greebo.

A friend maybe going to get a gig version.
Do you think that maybe some games may make this happen?
and ATI are doing the same to there exe?
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maybe but maybe not. My 4870 is performing as expected in games. For example with 16xaf, adaptive aa and 12x edge detect I am not dropping below 50fps in GRID at 1680 x 1050 whereas it used to make my 8800GTS 512mb crawl.
 
Greebo said:
maybe but maybe not. My 4870 is performing as expected in games. For example with 16xaf, adaptive aa and 12x edge detect I am not dropping below 50fps in GRID at 1680 x 1050 whereas it used to make my 8800GTS 512mb crawl.
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Thanks :)

I will pass on the info.
 
Greebo said:
maybe but maybe not. My 4870 is performing as expected in games. For example with 16xaf, adaptive aa and 12x edge detect I am not dropping below 50fps in GRID at 1680 x 1050 whereas it used to make my 8800GTS 512mb crawl.
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I've not sussed out how to make the settings I select in CCC 'stick' in GRID - I set AA and AF in CCC and in GRID set what I usually set to 8xMSAA to off - and it looked awful! Not had an ATI card before, so I'm sure it's me. I usually set CCC to 'Application Controlled'.
Not tried again, as 8xMSAA looks nice - but am I missing some eye candy?

Any tips are most welcome!
 
Credo said:
I've not sussed out how to make the settings I select in CCC 'stick' in GRID - I set AA and AF in CCC and in GRID set what I usually set to 8xMSAA to off - and it looked awful! Not had an ATI card before, so I'm sure it's me. I usually set CCC to 'Application Controlled'.
Not tried again, as 8xMSAA looks nice - but am I missing some eye candy?

Any tips are most welcome!
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GRID does not let you over ride the AA on ati cards, you can select the custom modes in CCC like Edge Detect by putting the slider on 4XAA & leave it on Use application settings then any AA mode in GRID that is 4X or higher will use Edge detect which is AA mode + 3X.
 
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AA in CCC = no worky in GRID

set your AA ingame and use the drop down box in the AA section in CCC to what ever filter you want but make sure you leave it set to app controlled.

the tent modes IMO make everything look blurry so just use box or edge detect.

box + 4xAA/8xAA ingame = actual 4xAA/8xAA
edge detect + 4xAA/8xAA ingame = actual 12xAA/24xAA
 
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