The Hydra Control Panel
The Hydra Control Panel
Let's have a look at the drivers / control panel.
The technology behind Lucid's Hydra 200 is nothing short from astonishing. Lucid probably had to move mountains and complex matters to solve issues with multi-GPU setups. So you'd expect complex driver properties right? Well, no... you are already looking at 50% of the features here. The first tab really functions as Hydra On / Off.
Hydra driver properties. In the end we tested with a new revision driver (1.4) as we certainly ran into a bucket load of issues with the 1.3 version as shown above.
So we already mentioned that the X-Mode (multi vendor / multi GPU) was kind of limited towards titles supported. With the latest public release, this really is all that is supported. Now -- you can add and make profiles yourself, as such it was a pretty easy task to add say Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (which worked fine). But we also tried Resident Evil 5 which failed -- yet later on with revision 1.4, for the R-mode it was supported.
We also tried slightly more uncommon game like anno 1404, we made a profile but again Hydra failed. This is what you need to be aware of you guys, you'll run into heaps of limitations. The Lucid driver team has got a great challenge ahead to get as many games as possible supported. It will probably be the deciding factor for Lucid whether this product makes it or fails.