AOpen Aeolus FX 5900 XT review - Page 6 - The New ForceWare Drivers #2

Look at the tabs and you'll notice that performance is set at Quality by default where it now offers a “High Performance”, “Performance” and “Quality” mode for your Image Quality versus performance preference.

Here you can select Anti Aliasing (AA) up-to 8xS skewed grid modes and Anisotropic Filtering modes (AF) to 8x. Take note of the fact that the Texture sharpening setting that will crank up the AF one level has been removed.

• The “High Performance” mode offers users the highest frame rate possible.
• “Performance” mode offers users a blend between image quality and performance.
• “Quality” mode offers users the highest image quality while still delivering very good performance

Several properties are hidden at default and for the advanced users among us these settings are quite interesting. You can enable then by downloading the Hidden Features patch from our Detonator driver file section. The results are additional options as shown below:

New layout, here you can see you can check and change AGP settings in here and functions like Fast Writes. Quite important if you experience stability issues, not something you should temper with on the fly though.

There are two tabs if you want to overclock with the help of the standard drivers. Leave 2D alone, 3D is what you care about for gaming performance. If you want to overclock without the use the Detonator driver properties then use a 3rd party utility like RivaTuner or NVHardpage. Also, take note of that Auto Detect feature. The card will actually detect the fastest possible overclock for you ! That's tweaking made easy.

So, just click it, sit back and relax .. and your card will be overclocked automatically. It's quite accurate to be honest, don't rely on the end result too much though. I also recommend to use this feature once your system has been warmed up (ambient PC case temperature). So go play a game for ten minutes and then use this function.

Clock settings in 2D mode. As stated, leave them alone.

Small side note, as far as we can tell the product does not have a thermal diode build in, probably to cut overall costs. So it's impossible to read out core temperature.