ATI Catalyst A.I.

[arc@css]

What should I have this set to and could someone provide a little more detail about what it does. I have read somewhere that having it set to 'advanced' means that both gpu's are enabled. Not sure about that one.

tia

 

[Scooby_WR1]

Hi,

Catalyst A.I is used to enable multiple gpu's with it disabled only 1 will work,

as for the bit that says advanced on the slider that just does some tweaks to increase framerate i think. So if you have only 1 gpu then you can disable A.I.

EDIT: Just noticed that you have got a 4870x2 in this case you should set it to advanced.

 

[Eddie]

From reading the ATI help pages it states...

ATI Catalyst A.I. makes use of AMD's texture analyzer technology to optimize performance in 3D applications, while maintaining or even improving image quality. It analyzes individual textures as they are loaded to determine the best and fastest way to display them.

ATI Catalyst A.I. includes application-specific detection for various games and games engines such as Doom 3, the Half Life 2 engine, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Splinter Cell, Race Driver, Prince of Persia, and Crazy Taxi 3.

I didn't realise it did other things too, I've always just had it on Advanced in the past, never had any problems with it, as far as I'm aware anyway.

 

[jakspyder]

it doesnt have anything to do with multi-gpu support it just as shoot1st said makes adjustments to the visuals that give the least visual difference but the bets performance boost in areas that are graphically intensive.

 

[arc@css]

n1

 

[reflux]

I think it disables the second GPU - I had CCC set to give me an ATi logo when CrossFire was running in-game, and this disappeared when AI was off.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Its a bit of both. Standard enables optimisations/crossfire techniques, advanced uses more CPU time to theoretically use more generic enhancements rather than game specific ones, although due to the analysation involved this can use a little more CPU runtime, setting it to disabled will disable all optimisations, crossfire or otherwise. I usually run standard or advanced, havent noticed a huge difference tbh.

 

[Darg]

It can also screw up textures in less supported games. It screws up my battleground europe by messing up some textures.