AMD's AF fix proven false

[BababooeyHTJ]

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.

Why should drivers need to be "optimized" for older games? Yes Nvidia has had issues recently with older games. Gothic and NWN2 comes to mind both of which have been fixed. I want to be able to play an older game or a source port (some of which can be very demanding) and have it looking as it should.

Why would a benchmark on a game like HL2 matter? We all know that it runs at a more than acceptable framerate. I applaud Computerbase for pointing these issues out. The point stands no matter how much you try and downplay it. Benchmarks only tell half of the story.

There is no excuse for sub-par image quality on a $200-$700 product. When I spend that much on a video card I want it to be able to run anything that I throw at it. Not only games made in the last three years.

That said I have yet to see a post about one person switching to a Nvidia card because of AF issues so it can't be that common of a problem.

Testing every game you benchmark with every driver version and comparing it not only with competition, but with older generation of cards would be quite exhausting in either of these cases and it still might not be enough.

I agree with that but if you want more hits and you want your review to stand out why not try something different? I clicked on quite a few links from OTH in the 6870/50 review thread and most of the reviews tested the same da** games. If I wasn't interested in picking up a 6870 I wouldn't have done that and probably only checked a couple of sites. There are quite a few pretty popular sites whos reviews I don't even bother to check anymore since it's the same crap done elsewhere. Use one surprise game every once in a while.