[FrameBuffer]

to a driver near you.

Just noticed a beta set of drivers that include a couple of interesting things:

1. Drag and Drop transcode (Windows 7) - supposedly GPU accelerated
2. ATI SB8XX (810/850) drivers and Raid Management software - yes for an as of yet UNRELEASED southbridge
3. Application Profiles !! The possible long awaited feature sought for years now.
**more info on profile application can be found at Guru3D
It appears to be able to take XML files and convert to binary for use by the driver, making for easier and streamlined driver profile updating. Maybe as "automatic" as say Windows Update would be nice.. ie click on "Check for Updates".. download most recent XML files from ATI.. BOOM and for the LOVE OF GOD, please allow user created XML.

[PatrickL]

Some other news:

http://www.behardware.com/news/10636...their-way.html

[ShaidarHaran]

We've been hearing about app profiles for years now. I'll believe it when I see it.

The link Patrick provided implies this is a feature for CFX, which most users of course do not have. I hope this is not a limitation.

[AnarchX]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24808129/A...Q4-2009-Update

[brain_stew]

Only about a decade late.

If this actually happens (like others, I'll believe it when I see it), I'd actually be able to consider picking up an ATI card again. Its that much of a dealbreaker to me, was a right pita when I had a 4850 and I just couldn't go back after getting used to nHancer.

[digitalwanderer]

Picts or gtfo....

[Jawed]

Blimey Geo might have to update his sig this year.

Jawed

[swaaye]

Well I hope that if app profiles do show up that the reason for them being missing was more than just detachment from reality or something lol.

[air_ii]

Originally Posted by Jawed

Blimey Geo might have to update his sig this year.

Jawed

Lol, I thought about the same thing

[brain_stew]

Originally Posted by swaaye

Well I hope that if app profiles do show up that the reason for them being missing was more than just detachment from reality or something lol.

Have ATI ever actually come up with an explanation as to why they don't have them? It boggles the mind that they still don't support such a basic feature in 2010. Heck a little free app like D3DOverrider supports automatic per application profiles for forcing vsync and tripple buffering, if that can support it surely CCC can?

[Silent_Buddha]

Probably because not many people would use it? Enthusiasts sure, but that's such a small part of the market.

I know for me, I'm never even going to touch it and I still game whenever I have free time. But it'll be good PR for them to get it implemented.

Not one single person I know in RL with an Nvidia card has ever touched the profile system in their drivers.

Regards,
SB

[Squilliam]

Originally Posted by Silent_Buddha

Not one single person I know in RL with an Nvidia card has ever touched the profile system in their drivers.

Regards,
SB

Noone I know who has touched it in real life has touched it again, unless you count setting it back to the original setting as touching it twice. Everyone including me has had whatever game they were trying to adjust either break severely or become unplayable.

I used to want this option until I tried using it and it broke the games I was trying to tweak.

[Davros]

Originally Posted by brain_stew

Have ATI ever actually come up with an explanation as to why they don't have them?

has anyone tried to get an answer out of dave?

[swaaye]

Originally Posted by Squilliam

I used to want this option until I tried using it and it broke the games I was trying to tweak.

Fascinating. I've never had it break stuff, but I don't mess with most of the settings. I just use it to force AF and AA modes per game. That's becoming less and less functional though thanks to the growing love of deferred rendering and a lack of any concern for AA compatibility.

Years ago I needed to tweak some settings for older OpenGL games (Q3 based stuff mostly) to run properly due to some bugged multithreaded stuff they had on by default.

[Squilliam]

Originally Posted by swaaye

Fascinating. I've never had it break stuff, but I don't mess with most of the settings. I just use it to force AF and AA modes per game. That's becoming less and less functional though thanks to the growing love of deferred rendering and a lack of any concern for AA compatibility.

It was in relation to AF and AA modes which I was trying to force, nothing fancy really. I think the straw which broke the camels back in my case was Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, adjusting the AA setting at all caused the mouse to simply click through to the Windows desktop behind and crash the game.

[Davros]

I used nhancer last week to get Anachronox working
you have to adjust "compatibility/Opengl/driver extension limit" to "11a8".

[eastmen]

can we use profiles for non crossfire ? I'd love to be able to load a profile for batman with 4x fsaa and 16 aniso with other tweaks (like type of fsaa ) and then have another profile load for half life 2 and so on without having to change everything over and over again.

[hoom]

Have ATI ever actually come up with an explanation as to why they don't have them?

Quack3d.exe & then NV30 with driver detecting application by .exe & force substituting lower quality shaders.

The way they did their existing profile system was essentially a statement:
'We don't have any application detection & we wrote this application profile setup that allows you to set a profile then load a specific program rather than the other way to prove that we aren't doing any nasty NV type tricks.'

Kinda spoiled by the AI stuff that explicitly does do application detection & it seems like everyone has come to the conclusion that driver based code tweaks is perfectly fine.

[Malo]

I don't see a profile system as a app-specific hack, I see it as specifically what it is meant to be. To be able to specify things like AA & AF settings per application. I don't want to have to change my settings in the CCC every time I play a different game. I want to be able to set the desired AA & AF for a game (that doesn't support it in-game) and know that when I load it up the driver will apply them.

[Neb]

Originally Posted by digitalwanderer

Picts or gtfo....

+1

Been waiting since I joined the red team.

[Dave Glue]

Now all they need is a digital vibrance equivalent.

[Dave Baumann]

CCC has "Avivo Color Correction" with Hue and Saturation sliders.

[Diverge]

Does this mean that we can create a profile for a game that ATI hasn't supported for crossfire?

[karlotta]

Originally Posted by Dave Baumann

CCC has "Avivo Color Correction" with Hue and Saturation sliders.

But that doesnt work in games...

[IRQ Conflict]

Really? I thought it did. You know what I miss? The post processing effects that used to be included with Catalyst. More of a toy than an an actual useful feature but it was fun non the less.