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nightlith
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nerrd
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Catalyst AI is "ATI's texture filtering optimization", which basically means that when enabled it will use a better algorithm to figure out how to filter the textures in the application you are running. For me, generally it yields better performance, so I always have it enabled and on high.
Adaptive AA is similar to nvidais "Transparency Anti-aliasing" which basically is an algorithm that detects alpha textures (textures with transparent pixels) and applies super sampling to them.
I'm not sure why your 2d draws slowly. One thing you can check is under the SMARTGART tab. Make sure you have the correct agp settings there.
btw. You made the coorect decision to get an ATI. any nvidiot will tell you otherwise, but those opinions are based on the fact that they currently use nvidia card, not on any real world tests.
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Jenni
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Did you use driver cleaner to get rid of the nvidia driver before you installed the ati's?
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nightlith
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you could try the omega drivers if you want to customize your settings even further (and even if you don't there are still some great tweaks in them.)
http://www.omegadrivers.net/
edit:oh, and i think that fast write should be disabled (i don't really know why but almost every ati tweaking guide/expert says so.)
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| Posted: Sun, 5th Nov 2006 20:30 Post subject: |
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I use ATI Tray Tools to overclock my X850XT and it works like a charm. It also has a 'fan override' function, since my Card for some reason defaulted to 15 percent fan speed or something, and only ramped up when it was too late, I used ATT to lock the fan speed at 100 at all times.
Overclocked nicely with on board cooling.
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I grabbed the catalyst drivers from ati's website (6.9? giggidy giggidy), tried out the only gpu demanding game I have installed (Titan Quest), and was like ... awesome.
