AMD's AF fix proven false

[BababooeyHTJ]

Honestly how much of a problem is this? I've seen the videos and it's pretty bad but how common is this texture banding? It's not like there are tons of threads about people dumping their ATI card due to these AF issues.

I have a 6870 on the way so I guess that I'll find out soon enough.

PCGH are the masters of IQ reviews and comparisons. a lot of reviewers screw this up. remember when most reviewers said the 5870's AF was perfect?

I remember a lot of people here in the news section arguing that too.

That's really not relevant to the context of my replies to this thread as a whole. The gist of my post(s) is that we can't make any comparisons between games that go as far back several years vs current released games. This is not a good example of how to do IQ comparisons. And I (as well as others) can't draw anything from it since the games used are so old.

One of the main reasons that I sold my 4870x2 was it's performance in older, modded, and less popular games. Morrowind really sticks out. I play Darkplaces pretty regularly which happens to be another game where the x2 didn't perform as well as my 280.

Thats actually one thing that I can't stand about video card reviews. Every site uses the same handful of new games most of which aren't even very good which means they won't be getting played much if at all. It would be nice to see some sites use say a modded Morrowind or even Oblivion install in their reviews. Maybe Stalker SOC complete, Eduke32, or Darkplaces. Even Serious Sam HD hammers my GTX280 but I've never seen it used in a review. Everyone just uses the same handful of top games that you know da** well both companies drivers are optimized for.

What do I care how Metro runs? I'll never play that again. AvP? I won't even consider buying that pos. BFBC2? How many UE3 games do you need reviewed?