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Article: Graphics - ATI shows its soft side. Ben Bar-Haim, head of software at the graphics-chip developer, tells Clive Akass about the balance of power between the GPU and CPU - and what happens to Windows crash reports.
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- Personal Computer World
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- January 1, 2005
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Users should pay more attention to the software bundled with graphics cards if they want to get the best and most reliable performance, according to a leading developer.
Ben Bar-Haim, ATI's head of software, said most users ignore the driver and utility updates that the company makes a point of posting every month. Some of these are bug fixes but others can make a considerable difference to performance.
Doom 3, for instance, was optimised for rival Nvidia's card and uses a look-up table to provide shader values; ATI claimed its own cards could do this more quickly by direct calculation and optimised its software accordingly to boost speed by up to 30 per ...
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