MSI Big bang Fuzion (Lucid Hydra) review

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The Hydra Control Panel

The Hydra Control Panel

Let's have a look at the drivers / control panel.

MSI Big Bang Fuzion

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.

MSI Big Bang Fuzion

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.

MSI Big Bang Fuzion

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.

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