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Catalyst Improvements That Are On The Way

Does this mean ATI users will finally get games specific profiles for all settings or just Crossfire? And will it only be modifiable through manual XML editing or through the UI? Personally I think it's amazing that ATI hasn't bothered to include game specific profiles, as they're relatively simple and give users a lot of flexibility. I know I'd love to crank up the detail on older games but not mess with newer titles - currently I can't do that.
 
Alexrose1uk said:
Yes you can, its just more work, as you have to make a custom profile for each game.
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I really can't understand how hard it is to find the profiles option in the CCC, which works more than fine, and allows you to really fine tune stuff "if" you want to, down to clocks, powerplay actions, anything you want really.

In terms of drivers, both companies can improve, they add things and they get better, though personally I have no issue simply playing games, mostly using in game settings, and forcing stuff when required. I simply leave almost everything in CCC forced to max settings anyway and the few games that require a specific setting due to performance, or a bug with a certain AA mode, I make a quick profile for in all of 30 seconds. Generally I never have to change profiles, the only one normally is Lotro as windowed it doesn't force full 3d clocks so it runs like poop.


The one Nvidia/ATi thing i'd highlight is none of these features are already there, they are being worked on. Multiple times, like dual displays in sli, Nvidia had for YEARS on their professional drivers, working perfectly, they actively de-activated it on normal cards for no reason then made a huge song and dance when they finally enabled an already working bug free feature for users who'd had the cards for years already.

Which is rather what you're getting now to some degree with the 3 screen possibility on last gen hardware. Something the hardware could clearly do but they simply didn't let users have the option till now. Not to mention about 10 years of hiding performance from the end user till the competition has a new card to release then all of a sudden unlocking a magical 15% performance boost we could have had all the time. Which meant I wasn't getting full performance even as far back as my GF3 because Nvidia were playing games.

At least with AMD I know drivers improve and I'm not being screwed, they get me everything they can when they can and they aren't playing stupid games.

I can't think of a problem I've had a game with that can't be fixed within 10 seconds in the CCC, which to me suggests decent drivers with more than enough control.

I think both companies could come up with the "perfect" driver, if only new games, software and hardware would stop coming out, in real life they both have new stuff to work on constantly and both do a great job.
 
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