Author Topic: Tips ATI Radeon 8500??? (Read 409 times)

JV44 · « **on:** March 15, 2002, 08:18:33 AM »

Hello!

I have Athlon 1.8Ghz and Ati Radeon 8500 64 MB...

I get 45 frames...looks a little bit low to me, not?

Any Tipps for tweaking?

Thanks!

Andreas

Skuzzy · « **Reply #1 on:** March 15, 2002, 09:21:31 AM »

What driver version?
What resolution and color depth you running in AH?

JV44 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 15, 2002, 10:12:30 AM »

Sorry Skuzzy

!!!

Driver from CD came with it (install yesterday) Yes I know I must download latest....

Res.: 1024x864 (or so, be at work, can not look...)

Color is 16bit....

Do Aces high use direct3D or OpenGL ???

I do not want push the last frame out of it... just wonder why similar systems get 70 FPS... just curios

Andreas

Eagler · « **Reply #3 on:** March 15, 2002, 10:35:10 AM »

get the latest driver off the ATI site

had more fps on a 1.3 Tbird at 32 bit color than u r reporting here

Skuzzy · « **Reply #4 on:** March 15, 2002, 02:47:06 PM »

JV44,..yes you need to get the updated driver for the card. That will help and you should run 32 bit as the Radeon runs better at 32 bit than at 16 bit color depths.
Just remeber to do a de-install of the old driver BEFORE upgrading to the new driver. ATI does a pretty good job of cleaning up. Just run the ATI de-installer in the Add/Remove Programs folder in the Control Panel.
After it is removed, reboot and install the new driver.

AH uses DirectX, not OpenGL.

JV44 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 16, 2002, 05:24:47 AM »

Thanks all

!

2Late4U · « **Reply #6 on:** March 16, 2002, 08:46:46 AM »

Also do not discount HIGHER resolutions! I run in 1600x1200 32bit with 2xFSAA preformance, and I get 45 average near the ground, 75+ above 10K and never fall below 25-30....even in heavy smoke ....SWEET!

Eagler · « **Reply #7 on:** March 18, 2002, 08:00:28 AM »

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Originally posted by 2Late4U
Also do not discount HIGHER resolutions! I run in 1600x1200 32bit with 2xFSAA preformance, and I get 45 average near the ground, 75+ above 10K and never fall below 25-30....even in heavy smoke ....SWEET!

2Late4U

what's your system specs?

what settings are you using in Direct 3D ATI setup?

what AGP apeture setting 128, 256? Fastwrites,on or off?

tia

2Late4U · « **Reply #8 on:** March 18, 2002, 07:40:23 PM »

I've never really looked at my bios that closely, if it aint broke dont fix it, and with todays speeds, I dont really mess around much with memory settings and pagewrite settings.

I can tell you Ive got 4x AGP for whatever thats worth, and the card is NOT overclocked. I run a 1.33 Thunderbird w/256 DDR. As far as the ATI d3d setup, I just use the minimum smoothvision of 2x preformance with texture compression the only checkbox and zbuffer set 16:24:32 ( I think I added the 32 for compatibility with one game I cant remember).

Eagler · « **Reply #9 on:** March 19, 2002, 06:32:33 AM »

so you don't have "Wait for vertical Sync' checked in Direct 3D?

Staga · « **Reply #10 on:** March 19, 2002, 07:41:59 AM »

I'm using RefreshFix with my older Radeon 64ViVo to modify refresh rates in W2k.
Site has also saamekind of proggie for Nvidia cards.

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Description: This handy utility let's you set custom refresh rates for D3D and OpenGL. Very useful if you don't want to play your games @ 60Hz. Win 2K/XP only.

2Late4U · « **Reply #11 on:** March 19, 2002, 07:44:15 PM »

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Originally posted by Eagler
so you don't have "Wait for vertical Sync' checked in Direct 3D?

Heck no, why would I want that...besides, my refresh is 120htz anyway

Skuzzy · « **Reply #12 on:** March 20, 2002, 08:31:56 AM »

Well 2late, in AH you may want to enable v-synch. Even though your monitor is running at 120Hz scan rates, it is possible for frame spikes to occur in software which could burst past that point causing lost video data perceived as micro-warps and such.

For quake style games it does not matter if you lose a bit of video data due to the nature of these types of games.