Newbie in ATI Control Panel, plese help

[Spitfire_x86]

** What is TRUFORM(tm)?

** Is there any way to force different refresh rates for different resolution (like Detonator 4x.xx drivers?)

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[10GHZ]

i think rage3d tweaker have such options.
download at rage3d.com

 

[Spitfire_x86]

But what's TRUFROM(tm)?

Another Question:- (Open GL tab) At balanced setting, it chooses "Quality" option for texture preference, how much performance I will lose in "High Quality" option? Does all benchmarks we see are benched with "High Quality" or default "Quality" option

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[10GHZ]

Trueform suppose to make 3D models more round and less blocky, not sure how exactly it works.. i've read an article about it a while ago, but i kinda forgotten about it already.

4 me.. i lost about 100 3dms when i switch performance -> quality, so i lef it running on quality.
the benchmark dosnt specify texture quality, the diver does.

 

[GeneticWeapon]

If you own Serious Sam, you can enable TruForm, but it must be turned all the way up to notice, even then, it's miniscule. Enabling the quality settings in the ATI control panel will give you a much better color saturation across the scene being rendered, and when I play UT2K3, the wall and floor tiles/textures are completely evironmentaly bumpmapped, even running my character full speed. Sometimes I am left in awe at the beauty of new games, and how far 3D gaming graphics have come...

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[chuck232]

This is my opinion. truform and such will give better graphics and all, but with a r9000, it could severely degrade performance, and I can say I don't stand around in first person shooters and stare at the enemy. I barely even see them...

Just my opinion.

...And all the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put my computer back together again...

 

[phsstpok]

They way I understand it, TRUFORM takes your wireframe models and interpolates extra triangles (lots of them) creating smoother curves.

I forgot their names but ATI had 3 demos for TRUFORM, at least one of them demonstrated how TRUFORM is actually done.

I think Windows 2000 and XP have problems with refresh rates. With Windows 98SE if I change desktop resolution and set the refresh rate then the same refresh rate is applied to all games which use that resolution. I only have to set the refresh rate once for each resolution.

<b>99% is great, unless you are talking about system stability</b>

 

[jaythaman]

hey spitfire Which grafix card did you have previously?? Are u going to do some benchmarks on this new one? Share it with me plz thanx

My computer NEVER cras...DOH!.

 

[Unit01]

my other vid card is a 8500
my settings for it are
vsync-disabled
truform-disabled
aniso-8x quality(performance loss is marginal and not very much)
If you got an amd800 as i do, or maybe more then that setting is quite playable in most games. details are usually normal. Don't use anti aliasing though, that'll drive it down the road.
Radeon9000 and 8500 does truform in hardware as opposed to r300 which makes the loss extremely low! mostly a few fps. I got it disabled mostly cause not all games support it and just decided to keep it off.

 

[Spitfire_x86]

Sure, here's my benchmarks <A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=343528#343528" target="_new">http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=343528#343528</A>

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