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* RadeonPro BETA: ATI Automating Game profile settings *
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Caporegime
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The thing I find most strange, I install windows, install CCC, set top quality settings on pretty much anything, and I'm sorted.
Most games let you choose AA, even then I usually just force iit to 4xaa in the CCC, admitedly a little easier when you've mostly got a new generation card few games will be troubled with 4xaa, I've also failed to once see a game offer significant(or even seeable) IQ increase with 8xaa, so why bother with the performance hit.
Job done, I can go months without even opening the CCC and play most of the latest games that come out and incredibly rarely run into issues.
Vsync works in next to no games because the driver model says they can't force vsync in a WHQL driver because you're not supposed to force that, or trip buffering in Directx, so in drivers its an opengl setting.
Thats the only thing I'd be pee'd about, and it effects both companies, not having an EASY to use, easy to verify properly made "3doverride" type program, not least because that is a pile of crap and rarely works for me. A way to force vsync and triple buffering in games without the brains to include the options is the single most important issue for me.
They've also had profiles in the CCC for as long as I can remember, you can set different settings, save a profile with a game name and save the .exe to open when you select it, so save a profile called COD, right click the icon in system tray, profile, COD and it will set the settings you want and open the game, you can also set different overclocks, voltages and other settings for a specific profile aswell, some games are stable at higher clocks, some are so incredibly untaxing or old theres no need for the heaviest overclock, more power usage and higher temps so run stock, or underclocked, with lower voltage and quieter fans.
CCC profiles are incredibly detailed giving a huge range of options, you just have to use them.
Most games let you choose AA, even then I usually just force iit to 4xaa in the CCC, admitedly a little easier when you've mostly got a new generation card few games will be troubled with 4xaa, I've also failed to once see a game offer significant(or even seeable) IQ increase with 8xaa, so why bother with the performance hit.
Job done, I can go months without even opening the CCC and play most of the latest games that come out and incredibly rarely run into issues.
Vsync works in next to no games because the driver model says they can't force vsync in a WHQL driver because you're not supposed to force that, or trip buffering in Directx, so in drivers its an opengl setting.
Thats the only thing I'd be pee'd about, and it effects both companies, not having an EASY to use, easy to verify properly made "3doverride" type program, not least because that is a pile of crap and rarely works for me. A way to force vsync and triple buffering in games without the brains to include the options is the single most important issue for me.
They've also had profiles in the CCC for as long as I can remember, you can set different settings, save a profile with a game name and save the .exe to open when you select it, so save a profile called COD, right click the icon in system tray, profile, COD and it will set the settings you want and open the game, you can also set different overclocks, voltages and other settings for a specific profile aswell, some games are stable at higher clocks, some are so incredibly untaxing or old theres no need for the heaviest overclock, more power usage and higher temps so run stock, or underclocked, with lower voltage and quieter fans.
CCC profiles are incredibly detailed giving a huge range of options, you just have to use them.
Yeah I know, its a bit more complicated than that, due to the driver model in win 7 if nVidia didn't have the ability to force it per application I'd be forever having to manually change it as it enables in some games I don't want it on and not on others I do even if I leave global setting on auto.
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A very long time overdue. For me this was nVidia's main advantage over ATi so I'm glad to see this evening out. 