AMD's AF fix proven false

[Eastcoasthandle]

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?

We differ in opinion than. While you have a problem with reviewers using current games as a bases for a review I do not. Perhaps you should email them asking them to use older games. Furthermore, as already pointed out drivers may not longer be fully optimized to run those older games like they use to. As for reviewers using a handful of current games to review, that's been common practice for sometime now.

However, lets put the gist your post to practice shall we? Computer Base used those older games to do IQ comparisons yet used current games to do the actual benchmark reviews. So the question is why did they do that? Obviously they had current games on hand to show IQ comparisons along with the rest of the review. So again, how can I make any distinction between HL2 IQ vs Dirt 2 benchmark review? The answer is simple, I cannot. So in the end, the IQ part of the review loses merit as it's a complete disconnect to the benchmark review.