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First CrossFireX reviews are up

"Now that AMD has released the Catalyst 8.3 drivers, CrossFireX is finally out in the wild. This means that you will be free to combine any cards of the Radeon HD 3800 series; 3850, 3870 and 3870X2, mix and match any way you want. If you want to run three or four cards doesn't matter, but it's only available in Windows Vista. This version also introduces Hybrid CrossFire, which delivers a great improvement for people running AMD 780-based platforms with Radeon HD 3400 series cards.Catalyst 8.3 also brings;

* Anti-aliasing support for the Unreal Tournament 3.0 engine
* Hydravision - HydraGrid, Hydravision Hotkeys, HydraVision Virtual desktops and HydraVision Wizard
* Digital Panel GPU image scaling - enable GPU accelerated scaling for Wide aspect LCD displays
* Edge enhancement, which adjusts the level of sharpness of video content
* De-noise, which removes ghosting artifacts while preserving details of the original video
* Tessellation support
* Call of Juarez: Up to 20% improvement is noticed on ATI CrossFireX configured systems containing an ATI Radeon HD38x0 series of product
* Company of Heroes DX10: Up to 17% improvement is noticed, especially at lower resolutions, on ATI Radeon HD38x0 products
* Crysis DX10: Up to 15% improvement is noticed on all supported ATI Radeon products
* Lost Planet DX9: Up to 36% improvement is noticed across all supported ATI Radeon products and in ATI CrossFireX configured systems
* Shadermark 2.1: Performance scores increased up to 35% across all supported Radeon products and in ATI CrossFireX configured systems
* Unreal Tournament 2004: Up to 10% increase in performance is noticed on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD2400, HD2600, or HD3400 series of products on in ATI CrossFireX configured systems
* Resolved tons of issues with games in Windows Vista and Windows XP."

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I didn't expect to save $500 on this epic Samsung Odyssey G9 curved gaming monitor deal at Amazon

Kelsey writes: "Samsung is one of the best in the game and we've just spotted a gaming monitor deal out of this world with the Samsung G9 Odyssey at Amazon."

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Kingdom Come Deliverance II Already Runs Up to 80FPS with DLSS at 4K

Wccftech got clarification on the performance numbers shared earlier this week by Kingdom Come Deliverance II director Daniel Vávra.

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wccftech.com
LucasRuinedChildhood11h ago

Hopefully they won't have any trouble delivering 60fps on consoles then.

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Helldivers 2 dev acknowledges 'unfortunate' firing of community manager beloved by fans

An existing community manager for Helldivers 2 has acknowledged the 'unfortunate' departure of Spitz following the whole PSN fiasco.

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northpaws6h ago

From what I see on Reddit, a lot of fans also hate him... it is just a guy that like the stir shits up, it is not good for both the Arrowheads and the fans.

Michiel19893h ago

I think he just got fed up by people's complaining and accidentally spilled the beans

northpaws3h ago

Ya, but unfortunately that's the nature of the job, you can't get emotional, he represents the company.

Skuletor2h ago

That's what happens when you Spitz in the face of your employer and your customers.

XiNatsuDragnel1h ago

Spitz did one good thing for the fans and industry unintentionally lol