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AMD TressFX Technology Unveiled, To Be Featured In Tomb Raider [UPDATE]

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As promised, AMD has unveiled its TressFX technology today and as we suspected, this new tech will be used in Crystal Dynamics’ upcoming Tomb Raider game. AMD’s TressFX is a hair technology and the company has released some before/after screenshots from Tomb Raider to show off what can be achieved with it. Continue reading AMD TressFX Technology Unveiled, To Be Featured In Tomb Raider [UPDATE]

AMD teases tressfx: “a new frontier of realism in PC gaming”

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AMD has posted an interesting image on its blog. According to this image, a new feature will be unveiled on March February 26th. This feature will be called tressfx and is said to be a new frontier of realism in PC gaming. The aforementioned image shows a girl (or more importantly her hair), suggesting that this could very well be AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s PhysX technology. In other words, we’re most probably looking at some new hair/character physics technology. Continue reading AMD teases tressfx: “a new frontier of realism in PC gaming”

AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 6 Released, Resolves Minor AA Corruption In Crysis 3

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AMD has released a new beta driver for its graphics cards. According to the changelog, the sixth beta version of AMD’s Catalyst 13.2 resolves minor anti-aliasing corruption seen in Crysis 3 and improves Hitman Absolution Crossfire scaling. Moreover, AMD users have been reporting gains on various games and on Unigine’s latest benchmark tool, the Valley, so be sure to upgrade if you want to benefit from these gains. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 6 Released, Resolves Minor AA Corruption In Crysis 3

AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 5 Released; Further Improves Crysis 3 and Far Cry 3 Performance

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Man, AMD is on fire lately. A couple of days ago, the company has released yet another beta driver for its graphics cards. This is the fifth beta of the 13.2, and it’s perhaps the first time we’ve seen so many updates in so little time. Ironically, Nvidia (who was known for doing something similar in the past) has not been rolling out as many beta drivers these past months as AMD. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 5 Released; Further Improves Crysis 3 and Far Cry 3 Performance

AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 4 Drivers Released, Improves Performance In Crysis 3

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AMD has released a new beta driver for its graphics card – which seems more like a hotfix mind you – that improves performance in Crysis 3. According to its changelog, this new beta driver improves performance in the Crysis 3 Multi-Player Beta by up to 50% when 4x and 8x MSAA are enabled. And that is that. Naturally, this new beta features all of the fixes found in previous versions of AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta. You can find a download link below. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 4 Drivers Released, Improves Performance In Crysis 3

AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3 – Performance Improvements For Crysis 3 & DmC Devil May Cry Spotted

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AMD has released a new set of drivers for its graphics cards. AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3 come with some performance improvements  for Crysis 3, DmC Devil May Cry and Crysis 2. In addition, the Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3  improves – significantly – latency performance in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, and Guild Wars 2. AMD has promised to releases further drivers in the future that will improve Crysis 3’s performance but until then, go ahead and download these new drivers. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3 – Performance Improvements For Crysis 3 & DmC Devil May Cry Spotted

AMD Catalyst 13.1 Released

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AMD has released a new set of drivers for its graphics cards. AMD Catalyst 13.1 is the first driver of 2013 and comes with noticeable performance improvements on the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series, with up to 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases and and enhanced AMD CrossFire scaling performance in Call of Duty Black Ops 2. In addition, AMD has implements a number of fixes for a lot of games. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.1 Released

AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11 Released (9.010.8 December 2)

AMD fans, here is something for you today. AMD has released a new set of drivers for its graphics cards and according to their release notes, these drivers are recommended for those currently playing Ubisoft’s FPS, Far Cry 3. In addition, AMD has released Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 that should be used in conjunction with AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta11, and offer additional performance improvements to Far Cry 3. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11 Released (9.010.8 December 2)

AMD reveals Never Settle Bundle; offers Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution & Sleeping Dogs with its cards

It’s been a while since we last got excited about games/benchmarks that were included in GPUs packages. You see, most of the times, the bundled games were quite old and outdated. Well, that’s about to change with AMD’s Never Settle Bundle suite. Those of you who decide to buy one of AMD’s cards (from 7700 and up) will receive a 20% discount for Medal of Honor: Warfighter and a number of modern-day games for free. Continue reading AMD reveals Never Settle Bundle; offers Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution & Sleeping Dogs with its cards