{"id":1,"date":"2011-06-23T01:13:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T01:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-01-20T22:28:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T22:28:29","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"AMD stepping on my toes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.amd.com\/game\/messageview.cfm?catid=260&amp;threadid=135743\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/forums.amd.com\/game\/messageview.cfm?catid=260&amp;threadid=135743<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy with the performance of my fancy 6950, but I&#8217;m really not happy with anything else&#8230; driver quality, Catalyst Control Center vs nVidia \/ Intel&#8230; \u00a0of course the instructions and problem listed in the thread linked above\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">from exactly a fucking year ago<\/span><em> <\/em>still apply 100% today. \u00a0You can&#8217;t just go into CCC and switch the display scaling over to maintain aspect ratio like nVidia and Intel software lets you.<\/p>\n<div>This is not my first problem with CCC since I got the\u00a0card. \u00a0There has also been no fix forthcoming from Rockstar or AMD for the sparkling rain and other (minor) graphical glitches in GTA4. \u00a0Other things I suspect are AMD&#8217;s fault crop up in games, such as the crazy illumination\/shader bubble in Metro 2033.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Maybe I should just eBay the stupid thing and get nVidia. \u00a0Looks like I could easily get $250 for the XFX used, I have all boxes\/accessories and it&#8217;s registered to transfer the warranty. \u00a0A lifetime warranty nVidia GTX 570 starts at $320. \u00a0Maybe lobbing $70 at the problem will make me STFU and be happy.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/forums.amd.com\/game\/messageview.cfm?catid=260&amp;threadid=135743 I&#8217;m happy with the performance of my fancy 6950, but I&#8217;m really not happy with anything else&#8230; driver quality, Catalyst Control Center vs nVidia \/ Intel&#8230; \u00a0of course the instructions and problem listed in the thread linked above\u00a0from exactly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=1\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}