What a pity, still, 4-6 % improvements are nothing to sneeze at, some 200 GHz meaning you can opt for a speed grade lower CPU and save some money.

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Heh, can't get Safedisc working in 64-bit?

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Hmm.. That was mildly disappointing. I was sure the extra registers would have more of an impact than that.

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#2, exactly right.

Mildly impressed with the gains, better than nothing.

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nothing big, but the improvement is very much welcome.

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Well I’m impressed the image quality is superb, but I don’t know if the added image quality has more to do with the graphics card than to the processor.

Amd and Ubi should have made the older "image quality" mode available just to compare.

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Nice to see ANY improvement, but it's tiny really. The painful detraction to this gain is that most 32 on 64 programs are running slower such that the gain in one is offset by losses in a dozen or more other apps.

But we KNEW it would take years before the power of 64bit would become commonplace even having the hardware and an OS for the hardware. But I'm seeing nothing to make me compelled to switch yet, which kind of hurts the progress :(

$.02

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"AMD's goals are quite admirable, but the fact of the matter is that none of the visual improvements enabled by the Far Cry patches had anything to do with AMD64 or EM64T - they are artificially limited to run on those platforms alone, but could work just as well on a 32-bit platform."

This sickens me. Enable special things for people who bought special hard ware, EVEN THOUGH THE HARDWARE MAKES NO DIFFERENCE TO HOW IT RUNS!

Thats just a pathetic ploy at the customer to convince them to adopt new hardware they dont need.

Sad Really. See if I buy anything from these assholes.

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#8

You have to understand though, if AMD didn't put the money and effort in it these features won't be available at all.

Plus they didn't charge you for extra for their CPU because they put some money into FarCry did they?

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#3,5,8
I am impressed. If I understood correctly this is not comparing apples to apples. There are performance gains whilst having higher detail. That is great!

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