Is there a performance hit when enabling truform...

[RazorWind]

on a Radeon 8500 in games that support the feature??

 

[Baronz]

Yes I believe it would. But no games support truform anyways

 

[RazorWind]

Well I guess I'll go with GF4 then.

Btw, CS supports Truform.

 

[Wolfsraider]

<< But no games support truform anyways >>


serious sam
Black & White (v1.1.3 update adds FSAA support)
Otto Matic (FSAA and TRUFORM support in update)
Red Faction 1.2 (2x and 4x FSAA option in setup)
Harry Potter
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Myth 3 (update - TRUFORM to be supported?)
Torque Engine (FSAA and TRUFORM support)
from here
serious sam 2
counter strike
And Truform, in the few games its available, is nothing short of incredible. I use this in Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and tried it in counterstrike, it either improves the image quality, or performance, depending on how the game designers want it.
here
since it only takes 3 lines of code to support it try patching your games to the latest patches
these were found on google in 1 search and took less than 10 minutes of cutting and pasting

hope this helps

 

[tsunek]

cs supported truform even before the 8500 went retail

 

[RazorWind]

<< it either improves the image quality, or performance >>


So is there a performance hit or not??
I need to know before deciding which card to buy.

 

[Wolfsraider]

yes there is a performance hit sorry

 

[RazorWind]

Ok then, I'll stick with the GF4.
Just for the sake of information, how big is the performance hit, -15%, ...??


Edit note: replaced fps with %.

 

[RazorWind]

On another note, has the Radeon 8500 (275/275) 128MB been realeased yet??
(Not LE, nor LE o/ced to 275)

 

[Operandi]

Theoretically there shouldn?t be any performance hit at all. Though I never did any bench marks to check I?ve messed around with it on vs. off and couldn?t any difference in performance. Anand did a pretty good article that covers the tech behind it, which you should check out if you haven?t yet.

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1476