PC gamers often have to configure technical settings for PC games that they want to play. They have to configure the right resolution, refresh rate and quality settings for the perfect gaming experience. To make matters worse, some of the latest games may not run in the highest resolutions or settings, simply because of the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Radeon Drivers Now Distributed On Steam Platform
Especially gamers need to make sure that their video card drivers are up to date. Why? Because those drivers may add new features, improve compatibility of games or the overall performance while gaming or performing other gpu intensive tasks on the PC. Up until now, this had to be done manually. Gamers had to check [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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AMD to Ditch ATI Brand
AMD has decided to kill off the ATI brand, synonymous with high performance graphics cards, to bring them under it’s own brand instead. AMD acquired ATI four years ago and pledged to preserve the brand at the time. Now though, market research for the company has suggested its own brand is well known enough to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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MSI Afterburner Graphics Card Configuration Software
MSI Afterburner, despite its name, is a graphics card configuration tool that is compatible with a wide range of graphic cards and not exclusively MSI cards. It is for instance fully compatible with a Sapphire Ati Radeon 4870 card of the Ghacks test PC. A rule of thumb is that MSI Afterburner supports most Geforce [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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AMD ATI Radeon Tray Tool
Changing settings of an AMD Ati Radeon card is a tedious task, especially if the steps have to repeated regularly. It always involves opening the Catalyst Control Panel, finding the right menu and making the changes. It takes some time and is not really that practical. ATI Tray Tools is a collection of tools for [...]