radeon still SLOW help!

[dpopiz]

here's the problem: I have all the latest drivers for everything, including the latest via 4-in-1 and the latest radeon beta. I'm running win2k, t-bird 900 on a k7t pro2 with a radeon le at default clock (148/148) but with all hyperz settings enabled. I am getting horrible framerates in q3. ex: 'normal':80fps 'high quality':74fps 'high quality'@1024x768:55fps


WHY are my framerates so low?!?!??! most reviews are saying like 130-140fps for 'normal'

 

[Einz]

i had same problems. seems like that ATI just can't program win2k drivers 🙁 decided finally go to from a LE back to my v5

 

[duragezic]

On Anand's LE review, at 1024x768x32 normal he gets 65.8fps. This is a faster cpu and benchmarks don't have sound enabled. So a slower cpu, sound, high quality, win2k takes away 10fps or therabouts (not bad IMO!).

Enabling hyper-z doesn't help Q3 because you are likely running in opengl and hyper-z is on by default for open-gl, just not d3d.

Try overclocking.

The lower resolutions are still much slower and that might be caused by the drivers.

 

[dpopiz]

right, the high res is ok, except that its not high enough fps to be good for playing (not high enough worst-case fps, that is)
so, what I'm concerned about is that anand's review shows 130fps for 640x480 normal whereas I get 75-80. shouldn't I get like 110 at least on my setup

 

[duragezic]

Yah that one's an I don't know.

At first I thought that maybe since the win2k drivers aren't quite up to par with 98 that in lower resolutions (where cpu and drivers matter more) was causing the performance differennce. But I looked at Anand's article which uses old radeon driver and the win2k one is just 1fps behind in Q3A.