Author Topic: 9700 setting suggestions for AH2???? (Read 438 times)

Jackal1 · « **on:** June 17, 2004, 12:31:22 PM »

I`m running a P4 with a Radeon 9700.
Earlier in beta I was getting the mini freezes within icon range. Now if I even get in sight of another dot I`m getting the minifreezes. Even when trying to tilt the wings I get minfreezes. Totaly unplayable as it is.
I DLed the latest Catalyst drivers, no help.
Any suggestions??

Jackal1 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 17, 2004, 03:43:23 PM »

OK tryed lowering max textures to 246. It made freezing worse.

Questions: Antialiasing= Application prefernece or what?
Anistropic filtering= Application preference or what?
Wait for Vertical Sync= always on or what?

Skuzzy, Pyro, the guy in the alley, anyone?????
Could use some help here please.

BTW, I have sliders ingame slid all the way full to performance.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #2 on:** June 17, 2004, 04:03:22 PM »

What is your CPU? With that card, performance should not be an issue, unless your sound card is sharing an interrupt with the video card.

(AA) Anti-aliasing removes jaggies, but can hurt performance
(AF) Anisotropic Filtering is a texture filtering method applied to correct the look of textures at sharp anlges from your view. It can/will also blur the text in the game.

In the ATI control panel, you can set the sliders to more performance in the Advance settings panel (DirectX or D3D)

Berra85 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 17, 2004, 04:16:26 PM »

Jackal, i dont know if i can help, but i had trouble playing AH2 with the new catalyst driver. So i downloaded a older one, but cant remember which.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 17, 2004, 04:37:58 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
What is your CPU? With that card, performance should not be an issue, unless your sound card is sharing an interrupt with the video card.

(AA) Anti-aliasing removes jaggies, but can hurt performance
(AF) Anisotropic Filtering is a texture filtering method applied to correct the look of textures at sharp anlges from your view. It can/will also blur the text in the game.

In the ATI control panel, you can set the sliders to more performance in the Advance settings panel (DirectX or D3D)

Pentium P4 2.8.

So, in your opinion what would be the best settings for AA/AF?
Do you think the tweaked omega drivers would help?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #5 on:** June 17, 2004, 04:39:43 PM »

I have never used the Omega drivers so I cannot comment to them.

I would turn off AF and, if you have enough frame rate, enable AA at 2X and see what it does. If the frame rates are good, then set it to 4X. I would go no higher than that as there is no real benefit.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 17, 2004, 04:44:00 PM »

Gotcha, will give it a whirl.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 17, 2004, 05:06:10 PM »

Af will only go to 2x, will not turn off. Tryed it that way with AA set to 4x. Text is unreadable at those settings , seems to darken screen and freezes are unchanged.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #8 on:** June 17, 2004, 06:29:05 PM »

Shoot me a copy of the DXDIAG output Jackal. I'll take a look and see if anything stands out.

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #9 on:** June 17, 2004, 07:00:57 PM »

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Originally posted by Jackal1
Af will only go to 2x, will not turn off. Tryed it that way with AA set to 4x. Text is unreadable at those settings , seems to darken screen and freezes are unchanged.

Setting AF to "application preference" will turn it off for AH.

DJ229 - AIR MAFIA

Jackal1 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:04:06 PM »

K , thanks.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:04:40 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Shoot me a copy of the DXDIAG output Jackal. I'll take a look and see if anything stands out. [/QUOTE

Will do.