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I recently got ahold of an ATI HD4890 for a great price from a local store going out of business and I have a slight dilemma about driver-level tweaks (such as anti-aliasing / anisotropic filtering / etc. On my previous card (was using an nVidia 7600GT as a temporary solution after another card died) I used rivatuner to adjust said driver level settings. I can overclock/volt the 4890 just fine with rivatuner, but there are no driver-level options for ATI cards it seems. I would really rather not install CCC (Catalyst Control Center) just to edit these settings. Is there another program I should be looking for? CCC's footprint is a little large for my taste honestly, and slows down boot times. Is this possible or should I go back to nvidia cards? Thanks!
Ray Adams is working on a nice program for ATI cards called ATI Tray Tools (basically rivatuner for ATI). He has some forum threads going for it at www.guru3d.com, but their download section doesn't keep the latest vesions there (he continually tweaks it). Here's a link to the latest beta thread, the first page has a permanent link to his archived and beta downloads:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=275077
It's a great tool, and you can just load the drivers (clear the check for the CCC and folding when installing). Not loading CCC sometimes solves stuttering issues on ATI cards. Has nice profile sections hardware and graphics settings. Once you set them up, you can creat a Game Profile to apply hardware/graphics profiles and then which executable to call for a game, than create a shortcut on your desktop for it. Sets everything up and then launches the game for you (handy for nixing settings that do nothing for FFXI and then launching POL). If you keep it loaded in the systray, you can monitor GPU temp in the systray and setup automatic fan speed control to override the BIOS profile--speed it up/slow it down based on GPU temperature (can sometimes drop a few FPS depending on the game though).
Raist
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=275077
It's a great tool, and you can just load the drivers (clear the check for the CCC and folding when installing). Not loading CCC sometimes solves stuttering issues on ATI cards. Has nice profile sections hardware and graphics settings. Once you set them up, you can creat a Game Profile to apply hardware/graphics profiles and then which executable to call for a game, than create a shortcut on your desktop for it. Sets everything up and then launches the game for you (handy for nixing settings that do nothing for FFXI and then launching POL). If you keep it loaded in the systray, you can monitor GPU temp in the systray and setup automatic fan speed control to override the BIOS profile--speed it up/slow it down based on GPU temperature (can sometimes drop a few FPS depending on the game though).
Raist
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