New ATI Drivers

[shurcool]

"the user above?" are you talking about me? if so, i don't want more than 60 fps! i just want no image tearing, which vsync prevents (when half of the screen is one frame, and the other half is the next frame, and u see a visible difference... vsync makes the 2nd frame wait and not replace the first one halfway until the monitor is ready to display the whole 2nd frame, not just a part of it). but with vsync on and enabled tripple buffering (in OpenGL compatability options), i still see image tearing. thus it's a bug! that's all i'm saying. that there's a bug, still. that's all. nothing more.



yeah. ;o

[Gameshot911]

jdogme1 wrote..

does it fix that annoying thing when I join a game using a server-monitoring program, HL only shows up in the first quadrant of my monitor at 800x600 instead of 1600x1200? well lets try it then... verdict shortly

Hey buddy turn off your AIM

[Twoheadedchicken]

for raw power its intel /w ati -as long as your willing to tweak your setting to go around driver bugs. Aka in HL mods ati_npatch 0 helps hella. For convienance and quality intel /w nvidia -except in hl2. For best fps/$ amd /w ati. As far as ive seen at least. and the 9800 is barely faster than the fx 5900. very barely.

[MrFelix]

helloworld wrote..

hate to break it to the user above but if your monitor is only running at 60 hz then nothing you do will make it show more FPS. Vsynch just synchs full frames to each fram of video, hence preventing sheering. If you turn it off your just seeing multiple frames per pass, but still only getting 60 FPS technically, its just those frames are multiple levels of composited ass.

simulation timestepping though; can be different to the display framerate. dunno if that affects HL and games, but it always made it easier to do trickjumps even if the frame improvement wasnt noticable by me. but then I dont pay attention to a lot of things.

[jdogme1]

Gameshot911 wrote..

Hey buddy turn off your AIM

I dont use AIM! (trillian almost the same thing)

But its never been a problem before.

[Andeh]

"One fix is important to CS players like me who use anti-aliasing in combination with a Radeon video card. Screenshots taken with these settings produced a corrupted image, but that bug has now been fixed"



simple answer: dont use FSAA its the most useless feature anyone has ever designed for a graphics card.



oh and AMD > Intel no arguments!

and nVidia will always be better than ATi for the simple reason: they know how to make drivers lol plus thier cards are just better anyways.

[MrFelix]

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Andeh wrote..

simple answer: dont use FSAA its the most useless feature anyone has ever designed for a graphics card.

well it does make it look prettier. which is kind of the point of a graphics card. so i guess its about as useless as a graphics card.

[Coolleroy]

Spartibus wrote..

in unreleated news, ill be getting the ati bundle, which is an ati 9800 pro and hl2, which is when ill be building my new computer.



all of you nvidiots have fun playing an ati optimized game

OMG, that doesn't even matter, marketing, marketing, marketing.

[the monkey]

Im giving it a nine based on modeling and skinning, I think its a little over done though....bordering on seven scopes eight silencers four different straps type thing. Moving on, who else likes the taste of freshly picked boogers? Anybody?

[DchozN]

i am DchozN: this is sexy

[drealiT]

birdeh really burned it way too harshly when he was makin it way back then :/ i think it was irreversible but whatever it's old news.

[Vozz]

Lens sucks which turns me off from using it.

[defuser]

the scope really turns me off

[-:Nighthawk:-]

It was a hard choice between a 7 and an 8 for this. Lots of quality here, but the dark lines in the skin and the scope in general aren't exactly my cup of tea. Still, given the lack of competition in the SG550 arena, this pulls ahead. Best SL8 you're likely to find anytime soon, for sure.



On another note, please submit more skins!

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