CoolCatBad Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 (edited) http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_fusion.aspx?p=1 "Designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button, the AMD Fusion for Gaming utility helps achieve the performance edge previously only available to highly technical enthusiasts. It works by temporarily shutting down background processes and intensifying processor performance with AMD Boost. That means you can keep all the features of Microsoft? Windows Vista? ready for when you need them, but turn them off when you are ready to get down to serious business ? gaming." http://www.istartedsomething.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/fusionsetup.jpg[/imThis will only work with AMD hardware. I also wrote up a small article about this and put it on the Gamers News Section - Frank. Edited September 20, 2008 by Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoiN Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 good stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dc'1 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Downloading now! :D Hopefully it's good :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 We saw this back in June when we were at AMD but were told it was under NDA. They are also looking at how this can help battery life performance of their laptops as well. It is a simple task that many people have done for eons. I am surprised none of the big boys have thought about it until now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Frett Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Goodness Frank, I was about a split second away from killing that bug in your sig before I realized what it was. I could of ruined my monitor. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hagjohn Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 AMD Fusing for gaming beta does not support this version of Windows. Doesn't seem to install on Vista 64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PricklyPoo Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Working well so far, always wondered why there weren't many programs like this before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryster Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Goodness Frank, I was about a split second away from killing that bug in your sig before I realized what it was. I could of ruined my monitor. ;) Lol, me too :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Goodness Frank, I was about a split second away from killing that bug in your sig before I realized what it was. I could of ruined my monitor. ;) I had a real bug on my monitor trying to mate with it. Not pretty! :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baked Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Confirmed won't install on Vista x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisj1968 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Careful guys, in expert mode it shuts off my avast anti virus. but it works extremely well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 isn't compatible with 64 bit, gay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOC Veteran Posted September 19, 2008 Veteran Share Posted September 19, 2008 Yeah I can't believe of all companies not to have a x64 comp. version it's AMD! Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reacon Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Goodness Frank, I was about a split second away from killing that bug in your sig before I realized what it was. I could of ruined my monitor. ;) Same here, I get that alot at night...damn gnats. Anyway, I'm using it at the moment, but it doesn't seem to be very effective on a 3 year old laptop playing 5 year old game :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted September 19, 2008 MVC Share Posted September 19, 2008 It is a simple task that many people have done for eons. I am surprised none of the big boys have thought about it until now. Doesn't Asus also do this with its 6 engine program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhon Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 It's a good idea,Microsoft should do this with Vista like when a game is opened. Also gamexp comes to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmatic Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 yeah this is something which should be intergrated into windows itself, like how vista has alot of features which were 3rd-party on xp, so maybe the next windows could have this built in, like some 'game mode' or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozulus Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Doesn't Asus also do this with its 6 engine program? No. They control the fans speed, cpu clock, fsb, northbridge voltage, gpu clock, hdd, and other things. Basically when u aren't doing much everything is clocked down if on auto, on default settings it overclocks ur cpu 3% if you cpu usage goes up for a while. It works quite well, they don't shutdown antivirus, firewalls, and other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Symons Veteran Posted September 19, 2008 Veteran Share Posted September 19, 2008 'tis a very good idea, and like previously mentioned, I'm surprised this hasn't been done before by the bigger companies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_dandy_ Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Despite the plethora of sites out there instructing people how to turn off needless services to increase gaming performance, I'm still waiting for somebody to put up actual, real-world gains (eg, before vs after). Otherwise, if I have to go through the hassle of shutting down dozens of different services and shutting down apps before launching a game (and then undo that after), or reboot a PC, only to gain an extra couple FPS, then it's not worth it IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 i heard there are like up to 10% gain with AMD fusion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pupik Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Bah. Should of put a warning in the first post that this works only on AMD processors. After installing this on Vista 32bit and C2D processor, I was greeted with this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerLG Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Well, it is by AMD, why would it work on Intel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pupik Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Well, it is by AMD, why would it work on Intel? Because the processor the applications and services are running on, got nothing to do with closing them and then re-opening them with this application (that is made by AMD)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmatic Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 are you guys laughing WITH him, or laughing AT him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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