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.

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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