Author Topic: Question about ATI 9700 Pro (Read 364 times)

BNM · « **on:** January 01, 2003, 01:26:32 PM »

I bought this card about a week or so ago. It seems to work well in most areas. I do however get major frame drops when there's alot of smoke at a field or a whole lot of aircraft (furball).

I probably average around 60-75 fps normally and it will drop to 10-20 fps in these situations.

My system is a bit outdated but I would think it'd run average close to 100 fps in AH and drop to maybe 40ish in these situations. My previous card was a GeForce 2 mx400 64mb and my FRs were barely lower.

Skuzzy or anyone have any advice? Is there a setting I could change somewhere that would reduce the FR drop in smokey areas without reducing the overall quality?

System specs:

PIII 1.0 GIG/133 FSB
768 PC 133 SDRAM
40 GIG WD HD 7200
Win2K Pro
ATI 9700 PRO
SB LIVE 5.1
CH STICK / PEDALS / THROTTLE (ALL USB)

At work and can't remember the Driver #s for the various cards but they are optimal from what I've read on these boards. DX 8.1 and have the sound boost set to 3/4.

Appreciate any help given. Just seems this system should run AH faster to me but I don't know???

minus · « **Reply #1 on:** January 01, 2003, 04:14:32 PM »

remember , once HT or Pyro said AH depend also on the CPU ,got the 9700 pro
the second works awesame , no game able to dropit down below 50 f/s

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #2 on:** January 01, 2003, 04:26:53 PM »

I agree with Minus. I think you're bumping into a CPU limitation as opposed a video card limitation.

AKDejaVu

Ike 2K# · « **Reply #3 on:** January 01, 2003, 04:26:55 PM »

make sure you download the latest drivers at ATI.com. downloading new drivers may help boost FPS in AH.

SunKing · « **Reply #4 on:** January 01, 2003, 05:20:29 PM »

http://www.omegacorner.com

Best ATI drivers out.
They are made for gaming.

BNM · « **Reply #5 on:** January 01, 2003, 06:05:13 PM »

Minus, what CPU / System do you have?

minus · « **Reply #6 on:** January 02, 2003, 01:53:15 AM »

i runing AMD XP 2200 13 micron, + 1 GO of 333 DDR RAM +kt 333 ARU

i sugest to any 1 the 13 micron AMD !! it heat much much les like old XP AMD and the L1 bridge is uncut !!!!

that mean , if you get a cheap XP1700 amd 13micr you can set multiplier in bios to run it like XP 2000

without any expensive coling solution

the drivers are inportant , using CATALIST 3.0 +DX 9

the Best thing on ATI9700 PRO is when i can push all antialiasing , multitexturing ,anisotropic filtering to MAX and without real efect on frame rate !!!!!

and at last it was necesery to upgrade my power suply, now using Antec 550 w

Skuzzy · « **Reply #7 on:** January 02, 2003, 07:22:56 AM »

Two things BNM

1) The 9700Pro does not perform all that great unless you crank up the resolution and other features it supports.

2) Considering it is takin a 2.8GHz and higher CPU speeds to realize the cards potential, I have to agrre with others, you are very CPU limited. Not a bad thing. Just know you can easily upgrade your CPU and keep this card around for quite a while.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #8 on:** January 02, 2003, 11:40:23 AM »

9700 pro with 2.8ghz and 512 mb pdram..
I don't get any FPS drops. period.
at the highest reso, 32 bit, all options on.
it never slows down...doesn't matter what's on the screen.