10.7a Beta Catalyst released - SC2 Forced AA and Quadfire+Eyefinity Improvements

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faxon

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sweet, SC2 AA fix was a must have, glad they got on top of that right away. the only question now, does it work?
 
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ace55

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I'll let you know in a bit, SC2 is at 96% installed and the drivers are downloading. And to think if Gamestop hadn't screwed up my preorder I would have had to play SC2 with no AA for what, two days now? :rolleyes:
 
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faxon

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cool beans. i cant get SC2 just yet because it requires an internet connection to play, and our squid proxy needs to be reconfigured before i can even play the damn single player. i hate living at home with parents, they wont even let me hook up a second router in front of our primary so i can sit on my own network when i want to game unhindered :(. step dad is away on business (viewing source code for some IP litigation case) and wont fix it till he gets back next week
 
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faxon

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yea chances are they either had this fix in the making for a while, they ported the fix from another existing fix, or they threw all the resources they had at it till the problem went away.
 
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I don't have an ATI setup to test anymore, but would be curious if anyone has the time to run some sort of benches comparing no AA to 4xAA at a res of 1920x1200 or higher with the drivers, also a test with SSAA would be cool as well.

Would like to hear what the performance hit is. With the system in my sig, turning on 4xAA is a pretty big hit to performance in some situations. Turning on TRAA is an even bigger hit :awe: But it remains playable but dips down enough to notice once in a while.

So curious to hear about some 5870 & 5870 CF results.
 
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Heh I said it would be forthcoming but this is pretty quick. The PR release that AMD made that it would only support AA if 'it didn't incur a massive penalty'. I dare say their fix incurs just as much a performance penalty as Nvidia's so that was just a whole lot of fluff. Good news for AMD owners.
 
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Wow, that was fast. Must have suddenly become important for ATI.
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Projected 10 million units sold this year is a bit important.


I am about to install and check it out. I am running all Ultra at 1920x1200 and on occasion I wish I had some AA.
 
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HD 5870 1GB and i7 920 running at 3.6. Played a few games with and without 4x Box Adaptive Multisampling AA. Without AA, all settings on max, reduce mouse lag not checked is 100+. Reduce mouse lag drops you to about 60-80. With 4x AA and reduce mouse lag not checked, fps drops to a very playable 50-70. With reduce mouse lag and 4x AA, you drop to a 35-50 fps. Still very playable.

Difference in image quality is small but noticeable if you look for it.
 
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With 4x AA it's nice, and I can't tell any difference in performance. Either way it's like >100fps or something stupid.
 
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Of course, thanks. That explains it! You tried SSAA? Can probably afford 4x.
 
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It's nice to see AMD quickly get this out. Game is unbelievably good. I question what the big deal with AA in this one is though. I'm playing 1920x1080 on a 46" HDTV with a 5770 and i'm not noticing any bothersome jaggies, aside from a few minor spots in the in between mission parts. During gameplay i dont get the big deal need for AA in this game. Other than an AMD vs nVidia spin, I don't see the merit for an uproar over AA support in this game. The nVidia focus group pouncing on an oppurtunity to exploit the thing I thought was laughable.

Those of you playing at 1080P or higher, is the AA more of a novelty or something you are going to use while gaming in SC2?
 
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HD 5870 1GB and i7 920 running at 3.6. Played a few games with and without 4x Box Adaptive Multisampling AA. Without AA, all settings on max, reduce mouse lag not checked is 100+. Reduce mouse lag drops you to about 60-80. With 4x AA and reduce mouse lag not checked, fps drops to a very playable 50-70. With reduce mouse lag and 4x AA, you drop to a 35-50 fps. Still very playable.
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Doesn't sound like there's less of a hit in performance than with nVidia.
Yet that was the excuse that AMD used for not having AA: they didn't want to release a solution that is too expensive in terms of performance.
 
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MagickMan said:
With 4x AA it's nice, and I can't tell any difference in performance. Either way it's like >100fps or something stupid.
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Very nice. Looks like there is not a big performance hit then. I know with my setup there is a big drop in FPS using 4xAA and supersampling. Game still runs very well though, but I assume something like a 460 would choke with the supersampling.

Guess they managed to deliver on not letting AA hit peformance hard.
 
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