AMD's Fusion for Gaming Beta Now Available

AMD recently unveiled its Fusion for Gaming application with a lot of tawdry grandiosity. The utility, currently in beta, provides a software-based crude overclocking solution by closing all background apps and services to optimize the system for gaming. The utility also tinkers with some other system settings to provide enhanced performance during gaming. Once in expert mode, the application can even overclock the GPU.
The chipmaker claims that Fusion for Gaming can enhance a computer’s performance by up to 10%. Although it might actually prove to be handy, the chances of it being worth as much as AMD’s rhetoric suggests are slim to none. The beta is only meant for Windows Vista 32 and can be downloaded here.
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Humpfester
October 04, 2008 at 4:55pm
Well, if anyone gets this far back in the articles, I just installed this on a AMD FX55 Clawhammer Windows XP SP3 rig and it works great, Thanks Max .
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dankers
September 21, 2008 at 6:23am
i like to see something like this, an easy to use program with advanced features that will help the pc gaming group as a whole, although i shut everything down including start up processes and according to all the benchmarks ive run so far i only gained about 5% increase of speed from my ram. im not going to be using any of those overclocking utilities.
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DBsantos77
September 20, 2008 at 11:01am
This is a very useful program, After installing it on my Gateway computer, (Yeah I know shitty computer but you gotta be happy with what you have.) I noticed a significant boost in performance in graphics intensive games like Oblivion. Only pet peeve that I have is that you can't add any applications to an exclude menu, I have ATITOOL for overclocking, And Everytime I run Fusion it shuts down ATITOOL, So in reality I must be getting more performance because my Vid card is at default clocks. I solved that issue by simply Re-starting ATITOOL when Fusion shut if off. But nevertheless very nice program, And it ran without a hitch in my System. In Oblivion, WITHOUT the Fusion App, In a Dungeon I would get 50-80 FPS, With the Fusion App running I got up to 178 FPS In a Dungeon.I chose the "Expert" Profile and it immediately shut off every useless process to gaming. Then when I finished playing I simply stopped the profile and it immediately re-started all the processes that it shut off. I also love the hard drive booster, You can really see your games starting up a lot faster. I LOVE THIS SOFTWARE!Very nice for just a BETA, GO AMD!!!
AMD Phenom 9500
ATI Radeon HD2400XT
500GB SATA II HD
Vista Home Premium (32-BIT)
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Slipk487
September 20, 2008 at 7:24am
The installer is coded to only install on amd processers. im currently using it with my 8800GT and have no problems with it.
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Tekzel
September 20, 2008 at 6:09am
It wasn't Vista only. I was thinking about building an app similar to this a while back, but decided I lacked the required the programming skills. My idea was an app that could stop specified services, kill and log specified processes, then after you finish gaming could restart the services and launch the processes it killed so you don't have to reboot.
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avanish11
September 20, 2008 at 8:11am
they already have that. Download it here:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartclose.html
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FoamysKing
September 20, 2008 at 4:18am
one question does it work with intel processors and whats with the no xp love most serrious gamers still use xp
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Devo85x
September 20, 2008 at 5:08am
Serously, Im using xp and i would love this to push a couple extra frames out of Crysis. WHAT GIVES AMD!!!
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Strongbad536
September 20, 2008 at 5:40am
well I wish it would work with XP, but as far as I know, it should work with intel procs because usually AMD and intel have good relations. Just don't throw Nvidia into the mix.















