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How do you set custom AA settings for a particular game in catalyst control centre?

Having used nVidia and ATI cards I have to say I much prefer the way that nVidia handles profiles for games. Their control panel quickly allows me to modify existing profiles or make a new one and is very straight-forward. ATI has been very slow to implement comparable functionality, which is more important since the era of multi-GPU cards. For instance, I now get flickering in PopCap games like Plants Vs Zombies that I never got with my 4870 - the drivers should have a profile setup to prevent that from install.

I'm quite happy with my ATI cards and find the overclocking functionality puts nVidia's to shame but the poor profile support really is quite surprising. I'm interested to see whether the new system they've announced will improve things much.
 
ATI have always lagged behind NVidia when it comes to software functionality, it's a shame really because their hardware engineers always produce very good hardware.

NVidia are very proactive when it comes to the software side of things.
 
TAC4U said:
I'm quite happy with my ATI cards and find the overclocking functionality puts nVidia's to shame .
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Sorry? what?

It's the other way round,, you have to increase voltage with ATI cards and the overall overclock is still worse than an equivalent nvidia card plus there's no bios clock limitations with nvidia so I don't get your logic here, it's backwards.
 
WTF @ Mr clueless, you don't have to increase voltage at all for a decent OC, sure if you want to max your GPU out then the tools are there to do it, same with Nvidia cards, tools are there to increase the voltage to get maximum possible overclock. Mind pointing to the statistics that show NV cards OC further than ATI? thought not, fact is overclocks vary from card to card so your little assumption means jack.

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I'm quite happy with my ATI cards and find the overclocking functionality puts nVidia's to shame
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Yeah, he's probably referring to the fact that ATI ship overdrive overclocking utility with the CCC, whilst NV give you nothing, you have to DL crappy ntune that sucks balls.
 
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Ive had Ati cards for years now so I dont know what the nVidia system is like but I have never had a problem setting up a couple of profiles for games in CCC.
Choose the settings, save the profile, you can set the profile to start the game, simple

Do nVidia just give you a profile set for a game already? What about catering for the different output of gfx cards, are the profiles different for each card?
 
RavenXXX2 said:
WTF @ Mr clueless, you don't have to increase voltage at all for a decent OC.
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I own a HD5770 and HD5870 and yes you do actually.

RavenXXX2 said:
Yeah, he's probably referring to the fact that ATI ship overdrive overclocking utility with the CCC, whilst NV give you nothing, you have to DL crappy ntune that sucks balls.
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ATI might as while include nothing, the overclocking limit is to low so you really have no choice but to use 3rd party tools anyway, and in allot of cases you even need to flash the card to break these limits.

RavenXXX2 said:
Mind pointing to the statistics that show NV cards OC further than ATI? thought not, fact is overclocks vary from card to card so your little assumption means jack.
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From cards i've used

Percentage OC, Shader Clock/Core

GTX260 - 25%
GTX280 - 21%
8800GTX - 17%
8800GTS - 25%

HD5870 - 15% (9% on stock volts)
HD5770 - 22% (11% on stock volts)

Thoughts?
 
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Squark said:
Ive had Ati cards for years now so I dont know what the nVidia system is like but I have never had a problem setting up a couple of profiles for games in CCC.
Choose the settings, save the profile, you can set the profile to start the game, simple

Do nVidia just give you a profile set for a game already? What about catering for the different output of gfx cards, are the profiles different for each card?
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The Nvidia CP is fantastic for game profiles. You can choose from a huge list of games which get updated with every driver release or you can add any exe file. When you select a game or EXE you get a plethora of options underneath (way more advanced than anything ATI offers (FACT!). When you then launch the game (yes you can use the actual game icon) it activates the profile. And guess what, when you exit the game it reverts back to default settings.

I don't see how people are even begining to question the rubbishness of ATI profile management, it's terrible.

You have to remind yourself to disable and enable profiles all the time. It's crud.
 
I love nvidia and there driver support but i have to say i went round to a friends house last week and set there ati card up plus the aa settings and it was really easy.
 
Alfie said:
You have to remind yourself to disable and enable profiles all the time. It's crud.
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No you don't. You can create a shortcut that will set the CCC settings & then launch the game you want. This can be pinned to the startmenu, used in an app launcher, or just sit on your desktop.

Another option is to use ATI Tray Tools instead, which has slightly better shortcut / setttings management compared to CCC.
 
Erm, the settings do not revert when you close the game so it's pointless. Plus it wont correspond to other links like autorun from disk and the games menu.

And you have to chage the settings overall, save a profile and then revert to factory everytime you set up a profile.

Are you lot living on a different planet where you can tolerate such a huge fail?
 
Leeroy123 said:
I love nvidia and there driver support but i have to say i went round to a friends house last week and set there ati card up plus the aa settings and it was really easy.
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Yes it's easy but ****. Hence I made this thread as I couldn't believe the funtionality was that bad and I thought I was missing something.
 
Alfie makes a lot of sense. I've used NVidia cards (despite my hatred of the company), and ATI cards, and NVidia's profiles functionality is miles ahead of ATI here. Which is a shame, because I want ATI to be better than NVidia.
 
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