Quote Originally Posted by gdogg View Post
Also, I can run cs source, with everything maxed with in game settings, thats 8XMSAA , etc @ 1900X1080, and get 150-200+FPS in all the cs source servers I have tried.

Kind of makes me wonder, where all these ty numbers in reviews are coming from, cause I just don't see them.
You're playing CS:S and bragging about frame-rates? The x1950xtx could match you on that one. Well, other than 8xMSAA, but could do it with 6x.

You're playing a 3 and a half year old game that was easy on videocards when it released. I know, I played it with a 6800GT just fine at 1680x1050.

Try loading up stalker yourself and you'll see the exact performance problems they're talking about.

Quote Originally Posted by ahmad View Post
That is a worthless review. With the older drivers the 2900xt was beating the 640mb and even the gtx in oblivion and stalker.

[H]ard garbage.
In no way has the HD 2900XT beaten the 8800's in s.t.a.l.k.e.r.... It's currently the huge Achilles heel of the HD2900xt. [h] isn't the only site to have had to turn off Full Dynamic Lighting to make it playable for it either, just to make it fair for ATi guru3d currently will only bench the game with dynamic lighting off.

Quote Originally Posted by v_rr View Post
ahahaha those guys are just the most Byased people in the World.
Die [H]

Stalker with Cat. 7.5 improved 100% it´s performance and they say that there no diference between a beta driver and oficial Cat. 7.5


They only needed to do a download oficialy from ATI site in 1 minute and install the driver in 5 minutes, but they prefer to use a beta driver that no longer exists
Boosted stalker 100%? Let's see a link from a notable site on that one, because ironically enough I haven't heard a word about that, and I've been personally watching the whole driver situation pan out.

As for [H] using this driver, perhaps they had the article already written, and the editor just took that long to finish checking it to put it up? The driver did only come out less than 2 weeks ago, now consider how long it takes to run all of these tests, write up the article, get the editor to check it, then get it posted. It's possible the driver came out in the middle of testing as well.

Either way, the 8.37.4.2 driver was notoriously buggy from the get-go, you can run a simple search thru the guru3d driver forums and find that out. Some games HDR didn't function properly(serious sam 2 being the most notable), Oblivion had issues as well, and it broke AA in a few titles as well. Search it yourself.

Now, I'm not defending [h] here, but the straws people are clinching for have holes in them.