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Club3D Volari Duo V8 Ultra Review: XGI Volari Family Coming to Graphics Market (page 22)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Anton Shilov , Tim Tscheblockov

[ 01/15/2004 | 01:47 PM ]

And here is the first disclosure: HALO game started running much slower on Volari after we renamed the halo.exe file. What allowed the card to run as fast as GeForce FX 5600 Ultra? Take a look at the screenshots below and you will get the point:

XGI (as is)	XGI (with renamed files)	Reference

The image quality on the first screenshot is simply awful: the textures are greatly washed out, and this blurring starts almost at the foot of the player. Moreover, the scaling effect can be noticed on the entire image: look at the polygon edges and at the target cross. On the left you see enlarged fragments of the “optimized” image. On the right – the image without “optimizations”.