Like everyone else, I succumbed and bought Half-Life 2. It's the first first-person shooter I've been able to play without suffering severe motion sickness, thanks to the amazingly detailed graphics. Unfortunately, it was decidedly sluggish on my Windows machine... until I downloaded unofficial ATI graphics card drivers. It increased frame rates by about 30%, which is pretty impressive ... but also makes me wonder why ATI are fobbing us off with what appear to be pretty useless official drivers.
Is this how they plan to sell more graphics cards - by making the existing ones underperform? I'm not impressed.
Anyway, it means I can now play at 1024x768 instead of 800x600, and the graphics are smoother than they were at the lower resolution. Excellent!
Oh, you are another victim of ATI Driver? Good grief ...
What I see here in Japan, there are many ATI-ish graphic cards made by Taiwanese and Chinese companies. I've got Powercolor one, because it was cheap plus it was only available one in this rural part of Japan. Shame, I've never consider of purchasing through web.
It seems nVidia is driving through this graphic card industry as far as I see. Expensive - yes, but it all seems money worth spending.
Now, let's see if that is true. I am going to Tokyo Electronic Town Akihabara now.
Posted by: Tatsuhiko Maekawa at November 20, 2004 2:41 AM