ATi FireGL V7600 - Software and Driver Details

In addition to the OpenGL 2.1 API, ATI’s FireGL V7600 also supports DirectX 10, making it completely Vista compatible. However, for now we recommend taking a wait-and-see approach with Vista. While ATI have done their homework where the drivers are concerned, the software industry still has a ways to go before the same thing can be said of the applications. If you have no choice in the matter and need to use Vista, check beforehand whether the applications you intend to use received has been certified for Microsoft’s newest OS. However, the situation with regard to Vista may change fundamentally in a matter of months on the software side.

After installing the drivers, we initially thought they lacked a configuration option, namely the specific settings for important applications such as Maya, 3D Studio Max, Pro/Engineer, etc. Upon closer inspection, we realized why we couldn’t find it. For the first time, ATI integrating a feature it calls AutoDetect. As the name implies, this feature automatically detects what application is currently running and adjusts the settings accordingly. Thus, the tedious manual selection of settings for each and every application is now a thing of the past.

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