- Apr 2, 2010
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Does “Catalyst AI” in Catalyst 10.3 lower the in-game visual quality?
ATI has just announced their final Catalyst 10.3 graphics driver. It is said that the most important feature of this driver is the ability to enable graphics performance increase in games. There is a new feature called “Catalyst AI” in Catalyst 10.3 driver. It is enabled in the default setting. The performance increase in games owes to this feature.
It seems that Catalyst AI is an interesting capability. The image quality in games seems to have some changes after enabling Catalyst AI.
I have compared the difference in some mainstream games when enabling Catalyst AI and disabling it.
The screenshots are as follows:
Call of Duty 6
Enabled
Disabled
Look at the change in the grass.
Left for Dead
Enabled
Disabled
I don't think there is any difference between the two screenshots…
DiRT 2
Enabled
Disabled
Look at the shadow on the stone and massif.
Far Cry 2
Enabled
Disabled
Look at the changes of the stone’s shadow on the upper left.
As you can see in the above screenshots, Catalyst AI does lower the visual quality somewhat in some games. Of course, not all of the games are affected by Catalyst AI. We can see that Catalyst AI generally has some impacts on the shadows and lightings in the game environment. Additionally, the grass scene is also affected more or less in Call of Duty 6.
Although the addition of Catalyst AI in Catalyst 10.3 speeds up games, it does lower the image quality in games. Perhaps you will not agree with that.
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-ViRGE
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