Elite Bastards interview: ATI's Terry MakedonAs well as taking our own look at AMD's forthcoming Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3 driver releases, the Catalyst team's head honcho Terry Makedon also very kindly took some time out of his busy schedule to answer some of our inevitable slew of questions about the features being showcased and released within these driver sets.
Elite Bastards: Moving on to Eyefinity now, and we've seen a number of new features targeting Eyefinity users emerge within Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3, but is there still room for more improvement from a driver standpoint?آ In particular, I'm thinking about criticism of new games being released which don't work well in an Eyefinity configuration - Is this something that can be resolved at a driver level, or is it more of a developer relations issue?
Terry Makedon: A bit of both. Our main goal is to have a robust Eyefinity SDK available to game devs so that they can make it work seamlessly. This is an ongoing effort and at GDC next month we will be releasing a newer version to them. At the same time I do feel it is up to us to make sure the experience is seamless, so we will do whatever we have to in the driver to make it “just work†(but of course never altering the game in such a way that would violate the ISV’s vision of the game)
Interview with ATI's Terry Makedon - Catalyst 10.2, 10.3 and more
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Elite Bastards commentary: ATI Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3 feature previewToday sees the release of ATI's monthly graphics driver for February, Catalyst 10.2, and it's a big one in terms of new features and additions.آ To see what both this driver and March's Catalyst 10.3 release have in store for ATI graphics board owners, check out our analysis of the features they'll be bringing to the table.
Starting with the bad news, Catalyst 10.2 won't be bringing us user customisable application profiles to the table, despite all of the clamour for just this feature over recent years.آ However, the good news is that what ATI have done is to effectively split the part of their driver that deals with application profiles out into its own discrete file, meaning that updates to this profile list can be released separately by ATI for download by users at any time as required.آ So, rather than having to remain in line with monthly driver releases, new profiles can be released several times a day if required, to ensure that the latest games are supported properly as soon as the driver team have tested and created the required profile.آ These profiles won't just be limited to adding in CrossFire support either (although it will probably remain their primary purpose), as profiles can also be used to fix other compatibility issues such as the ability to force anti-aliasing in certain titles and the like, making the new system good news even for those running only a single GPU in their machine.
ATI Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3 feature preview - CrossFireX profiles and more
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