Bad framerates on ATI cards?

[Sheap]

For comparison, I have:

Athlon 1.3GHz system,
512MB RAM,
ATI Radeon 7200 (very old)

I run in 800x600 window and get about 25-30FPS in Normal graphics mode. Fullscreen it is about the same.

So, no framerate problems here, although I have to say that UT2K4 framerate is not much worse than DOM2 but certainly is much nicer looking

But that is OK with me, I don't play DOM2 for the graphics. I mean I played tons of Stars!@# and that game had maybe the worst graphics of any game ever released since Zork.

[Innocence]

Originally posted by Sheap:
I run in 800x600 window and get about 25-30FPS in Normal graphics mode. Fullscreen it is about the same.

Yea, sound more reasonable. And you're running on newest Catalyst 4.5 drivers as well?

I mean I played tons of Stars!@# and that game had maybe the worst graphics of any game ever released since Zork.

LOL, true. Played Stars! for years myself. IIRC I stopped playing around 2000 since Supernova was "just around the corner"

[Sheap]

Actually the newest Catalyst drivers are 4.6 now - they just came out yesterday

But I am still using the 4.5. I use the Omega drivers from www.omegacorner.com which are the same rendering code as the ATI drivers, but includes a better control panel and some other minor improvements. I don't think there are Omega drivers for 4.6 yet.

I suppose I also ought to mention that I have Windows XP Pro with all the latest fixes/patches from Microsoft.

[ June 10, 2004, 15:22: Message edited by: Sheap ]

[Innocence]

Actually the newest Catalyst drivers are 4.6 now - they just came out yesterday

Hehe, how fast a driver gets outdated I recon nothing's different with the new 4.6 driver though? Ditto on the updates, I usually run MS Update