Radlinker + AI

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Mr. Robert Fisher

I was just wondienr what exactly AI did when it is set to Advanced?
Any idea, I have a 9500Pro and with the Omegas, I get the option for my
9200SE and 8500.

Thanks

Rob
 
Mr. Robert Fisher said:
I was just wondienr what exactly AI did when it is set to Advanced?
Any idea, I have a 9500Pro and with the Omegas, I get the option for my
9200SE and 8500.

Thanks

Rob
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I'm not sure exactly. I think It invovles the overall quality of the
graphics. Just another performance vs quality setting I guess. I think the
ATI Catalyst Drivers are all set to normal by default. It definately has
nothing to do with artifical intelligence.
 
AI varies the anisotropic filtering level applied to each texture based on
its perspective and type (since each polygon receives more than one layer of
texture), among many other things.

Setting it to "advanced" should give a performance boost at higher
resolutions. However, it adds more work for the CPU, so you may actually see
a speed hit at lower res.
 
Hey man

Thanks!!!!

"Well, this is the "cream" of the drivers, the Omega Drivers are the FIRST
driver set in the WORLD to support ATI's AI optimizations engine, without
the need to have CCC or .NET installed. Here you can "Disable" the
optimizations, enable the "Normal" optimizations (this was the standard
settings for all previous ATI drivers) or set the optimizations to "High",
which will increase the rendering speed at the cost of some video quality,
perfect for mid range cards that seek that extra FPS.
"

FYI
 
Mr. Robert Fisher said:
I was just wondienr what exactly AI did when it is set to Advanced?
Any idea, I have a 9500Pro and with the Omegas, I get the option for my
9200SE and 8500.
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I suppose Catalyst AI should increase framerates with
high end cards like X800, especially when using AA/AF.
At least I didn't get ANY kind of differences in my
Doom3-benchmarks, 2600+ and 9600pro so my
video card should definitely be the bottleneck.

I tested 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions with 2xAA
and without AA. Used ATI Tray Tools to switch the AI-
option between low-high. Either Tray Tools doesn't
change the correct AI-bits in the registry or AI really
doesn't have any kind of effect in performance with the
lower end of cards like this.
 
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