Interesting stuff found inside leaked ATI beta drivers

Why don't you trying gaming with that GF4 card of yours and spend less time looking for ATI Conspiracies, that would help alot.

 

Yes, i agree, Ati is doing much better than Nv.

 

Anyone know what game CT3.exe is?

Those other games have problems with AA, so ATI disables it automatically. Better to have AA disabled than to have people constantly reporting known rendering bugs associated with it.

nVidia does the same thing for Splinter Cell too, maybe the others as well.

 

Crazy Taxi 3.

 

Didnt ATI implement a system in the 3.8s+ that automatically did no fsaa on games like splinter cell regardless of the exe name. This also disabled fsaa on a couple of games where it worked fine though.

Could ATI be going back to the 3.7s method of fsaa and just be app detecting problem apps. I got the impression ATI said they werent going to app detect even for bugs when the problem wasnt at their end i.e. broken fsaa in madde, no af on some stuff in TR AOD. :?

 

You hit it on the head. These particular applications are detected so that the Catalyst drivers know to disable AA. This is not done to cheat benches/gain speed, but to get rid of visual anomolies/artifacts due to MSAA being applied.

Too many users complained that their detection method (not app specific) was causing AA to be disabled in software where it wasn't actually necessary to do so. To help resolve this, they are back to only specifically disabling AA on apps that actually require this type of fix.

I would have assumed most people would know this by now.

 

What stopped you?

 

oh boo freaking hooo.
i dont like your personal nVidia supporting crusade.
If i want, i can, no? (as you put it).

sure you can disagree, and we can even repect your opinion, if it were based on anything other than a blind allegiance. Its getting REAL old.

Maybe if you'd tone down the rhetoric, you'd see alot more respect of your opinions.
As for personal attacks - if you arent familiar with the saying "what crawled up your ass and died", its not a personal attack, its a question meaning "why are you acting like such an asshat". You can take it personal if you want, but most people familiar with my neck of the woods (means my area of the world) would understand that no real umbrage was meant. If you meant the part about you being an nVidia crusader - if the shoe fits....

 

- You not even read what i wrote: meaning i never said Ati was cheating and i'm sure they don't.
- You are still making personal attakcs, and that you can't do.

 

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Doesn't really matters but well, it does when you're accused of something you didn't do or goes for personal attacks.

 

Ugh, why isnt there a ignore feature. Or am I just missing it.

 

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According to ATI these references are for AA reasons as mentioned above. They have offered to provide an official statement on it and as soon as it arrives i'll let you know.

 

they have the time to leak first ?!? with the 1release/month ?

RainZ

 

i never said you said that!
ARG. Seems like YOU are the one who needs to read what is written.

I personally dont see a personal attack - would you care to actually explain your statements, with a logical and rational basis for accusing me of "personally attacking" you?

PS: "nVidia crusader" is not a personal attack, it is a statement describing how you are behaving. There is a difference. As i have said before, if you dont like the label, then dont act in such a way so that the label is accurate!

I didnt personally attack you - stop "personally attacking me" by claiming i attacked you!
And I never accused you of saying ATI cheated!
Read what has been written! You are not falsely accused!

 

Sorry if i didn't understand some things, that happens. Moreover:
- Where am i a crusader over in this thread? Saying that beta drivers are beta drivers?
- Saying someone is a crusader is attack that someone not what he is saying, at least in my list
- What you seem to think is not a personnal attack doesn't mean that it isn't in another culture, way of thinking.
- I'm accused (accused? ) of what BTW? Ati makes as good drivers as Nv atm (not in OGL unfortunately), doesn't cheat, and offer more performance, that's my stance.

 

From the official Catalyst 4.5 release notes:

Can we move on now?

*edit* linktified

 

Amen, they are simply looking for these games to avoid the corruption with forced on AA. Who in the hell cares about these games anyways that they would want to cheat in them.

 

you are accused of ntohing by me, except for being a crusader for nVidia.
I feel that your posts in this thread and others have been almost rabid in defending nVidia.

I just found these to be typical posts from you, defending nVdia as you have always done in the past.
It irritated me, so i told you the label that i think fits you.