ATI Driver/Setting Question

[Lokan]

I just recently purchased an ATI Radeon 9800np. It's at stock settings and I just got Cat. v3.7 installed and running. The card makes my games look great! However, the colors aren't as vibrant as my old nVidia Ti4600 w/ the digital Vibrance option. Does ATI have a similar option? I've searched around and while I can control the contrast, gamma, and brightness, it's not the same. I don't know how nVidia did it, but I really enjoyed that option. Any ideas?

Also, FRAPS is reporting Jedi Knight Academy as running at a solid 30fps whereas my old Ti4600 ran it at 50fps+ and this is only in 1024x768. I haven't messed w/ any quality or performance options, and well, can that be accurate? Is the Ti4600 that much faster?

Thanks again for all the help you guys gave me in recommending which card to get! I just hope I can get my screen to look a bit more vibrant. Any help is greatly appreciated!

~Lok

 

[GiBro]

No, ati does not have a digital vib option like Nv. Its a personal opinion that people like it or not. I personally dont after seeing that i find it usually makes certain colours looks too contrast thus losing crispness, but, thats me. Again, its a personal choice. people tend to argue that back and forth until they turn blue.. silly really. ANYWAYS...

Yes, theres something going on with your settings. You should be getting higher FPS pending system config. First thing that comes to mind is Vsync. Turn if OFF and lets see if that fps will climb. Next, will be the AA and AF settings. Where are they set? The higher they are the better and cleaner the games will look, but fps may suffer pending on game and hardware specs. I usually play all games with full AA and AF but without truform and vsync at 102x768 on my AMD 2100+, in which i have very little issues with FPS.

But again the 9800 should destroy the 4600 in everyway. Was this a fresh format, or you just ripped out the nv card/drivers and plopped the 9800 in? If so, that may be the case. Driver leftovers could hamper a newer cards potential.

But first look into the settings...

Cheers'
Good luck!

 

[Lokan]

Well the 30 FPS was just the stock settings (drivers included). I went into the OpenGL tab and turned AA to 4x and AF to 4x and got a whoping 20-24FPS... this can't be right. I did a fresh installed of windows when I got this card because I tried to install the card w/o undoing my nVidia crap and well, that didn't work right so I just nuked it and started from scratch.

I'm pretty worried at this time... I got it from Best Buy so I have a little time to take it back but what else can I do? I'm going to mess w/ the settings a bit more, but I really thought this card would trounce the 4600 I had before it and well, on the most important game I'm playing at this time, it's actually not really even holding it's own. I'll reply back w/ more results. I guess I'll also run 3dmark but I really usually go by my gaming experiences rather than benchmark suites.

 

[Mem]

This with your XP 1800+ ,it will be holding the 9800NP back a little but should still be way faster then your ex- Ti 4600 card.Did you reinstall DX9B and motherboard chipset drivers ,especially the AGP driver if it`s a VIA,SiS board etc ?