Comments on: AMD Fusion for gaming tool is the Windows “gaming mode” you’ve been waiting for

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:13:28 +0000

I think the program CleanKill does similar things for Windows in general. http://mercedhill.com/cleankill

By: Daniel Chambers

Daniel Chambers — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:10:01 +0000

I love the “Software ConfigRuation” section. Quality.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:47:38 +0000

And, as usual, another program that won’t run on x64. Doesn’t sound like I’m missing out on much though.

By: BobSacamento

BobSacamento — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:26:13 +0000

In order to get overclocking to work, you need to have AMD Overdrive installed and a known good clock set. Fusion can’t enable this feature otherwise. Same goes for GPU overclocking. Without overclocking your results will completely depend on how much bloat you have on your system. On a clean system, you may not see much of an increase. On a system with a dirty image, it is noticable. .

By: Rafael Rivera

Rafael Rivera — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:18:55 +0000

AMD Fusion uses the typical CPUID string (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPUID) detection procedure to rule out non-AMD processors. For those that are feeling brave, open AMDFusion.exe in a hex editor, jump to offset 0xE941 and change the 74 to EB.

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:00:36 +0000

Thanks. The labels have this typical blurry WPF ClearType look, but I guess this is from the image compression.

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:17:34 +0000

@Andre: Opposite of a WPF app, it’s all natural and very ugly in fact.

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:15:49 +0000

Is this a WPF app?