First post, by hifidelitygaming
I'm trying to verify the subject of research elsewhere which has given confusing and contradictory information in google...
The Radeon 8500 TruForm tesselation patches, my understanding is this existed in the hardware through the X850, and was removed for the X1xxx series (X1300 and later).. is this correct? If one wants to play TruForm games in best quality, that would make like an X850 XT the target card for the best possible experience?
My understanding is TruForm support was removed from later driver packs and one would have to track down earlier drivers... does anyone know what the last driver to support it would be?
I also heard a confusing claim that said the 8500 supported TruForm in hardware, but the X850 emulates it in software, so that the 8500 is actually faster... is this random internet idiocy or is this actually true? 😜 My sole goal is putting together a "Best possible" TruForm gaming system at some future time (it would do more than that, but this is it's design goal I mean) and so I want to know whether my shopping list needs to include an 8500, or whether the X850 I have on hand will actually play it best of all given the right driver.
I assume there are no wrappers ie like with GLIDE to run TruForm on newer cards, and no projects or interest since it's only a handful of games with mixed results? 😜