ATI's latest Catalyst driver reduces IQ for performance boost?

jmke · 7th April 2010, 12:52

source XS.org:

google translations from german to english are a nightmare... the pics speak for themselves, despite setting anisotropic 16x filtering in catalyst control panel or in the game itself, atis latest catalyst drivers actually force a mix of bi linear and tri linear texture filtering, resulting in a few percent performance boost, but flickering and blurred textures. welcome back PRE quake3 texture filtering! its been a while!

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,74...e/Test/?page=3

7th April 2010, 16:10

I like the fact that the article compares the ATI card with Catalyst AI turned on to NVIDIA cards at the highest quality settings. Turn of Catalyst AI and *bingo*, image quality returns to normal. This has been the same situation since they introduced the feature.

7th April 2010, 12:52	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,013	ATI's latest Catalyst driver reduces IQ for performance boost? source XS.org: google translations from german to english are a nightmare... the pics speak for themselves, despite setting anisotropic 16x filtering in catalyst control panel or in the game itself, atis latest catalyst drivers actually force a mix of bi linear and tri linear texture filtering, resulting in a few percent performance boost, but flickering and blurred textures. welcome back PRE quake3 texture filtering! its been a while! http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,74...e/Test/?page=3 __________________

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7th April 2010, 16:10	#2
Oberon Posts: n/a	I like the fact that the article compares the ATI card with Catalyst AI turned on to NVIDIA cards at the highest quality settings. Turn of Catalyst AI and bingo, image quality returns to normal. This has been the same situation since they introduced the feature.