Looking Back Pt. 2: X800 & Catalyst Under The Knife
by Ryan Smith on February 22, 2006 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
X2: The Threat
Continuing the trend of non-shooter games, Egosoft’s X2 represents one of the best space-habitation games, and also one of the few surviving space series. Not held back by the need for environments or elaborate backgrounds, X2 makes good use of high-quality models and the SM2.0+ feature set. It’s recently been replaced by the even more advanced X3: Reunion, but this game can still bring a system to a crawl in some places when every quality setting is turned on.
Continuing the trend of non-shooter games, Egosoft’s X2 represents one of the best space-habitation games, and also one of the few surviving space series. Not held back by the need for environments or elaborate backgrounds, X2 makes good use of high-quality models and the SM2.0+ feature set. It’s recently been replaced by the even more advanced X3: Reunion, but this game can still bring a system to a crawl in some places when every quality setting is turned on.
Catalyst 4.05 versus 6.01 (mouse over to see 4.05)
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mino - Thursday, February 23, 2006 - link
What they can do is provide Control panel.Had they provided CP at least once a quarter, many customers would be happier and it would not require so much resources after all.
As a result of CCC being the only option, we have decided to abandon all planned purchases of X1000 based graphics cards recently.
The slowness is not the only issue, we've had also problems to meke CCC run at all(it is needed for multi-display configs).
MrJim - Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - link
Hopefully ATI will come to their senses about CCC, as its now it isnt working for the demanding users at all. Average joe maybe dont know you can replace CCC with ati tray tools to help speed up things and thats sad. Please bring back the old control panel, please?Lonyo - Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - link
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2701...">http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2701...The "mouseover" comparison at the bottom has one 3D Mark shot, and one HL2 shot.
Ryan Smith - Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - link
Fixed, thanks.