Doom 3 running poo

[geeza]

Ok, not really poo but it drops to 30fps in action on my system in 1600x1200, 4xAA in Ultra settings. Quake 4 is also gonads in 1280x1024 4xAA aswell.
After reading these 2 articles it seems I can make it 20 or 30fps faster by getting a hotfix of some sort for openGL games.

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/quake_4_high-end_performance/default.asp

'A little over a week ago, rumors began spreading that ATI was working on a new tool that delivered substantially improved performance to their recently launched X1000 cards in OpenGL titles such as DOOM 3, Quake 4, and many others'

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/r520reviewxvxv/doom3.htm

can anyone help me get the right download to fix the slowness?

edit -K, im thinking i need cat 5.10a drivers but the 6.3 im using seem reasonably good. should i change?

 

[JonnyGLC]

You have a 256mb card, Ultra settings requires 512mb of video memory. You're never going to get good performance with that.

 

[geeza]

its still very playable in the settings i run it. its never dropped below 30fps which compairs to the drops to 8fps on my old system in high detail!

 

[JonnyGLC]

its still very playable in the settings i run it. its never dropped below 30fps which compairs to the drops to 8fps on my old system in high detail!

It's very playable but you were just complaining about poor performance issues?

 

[geeza]

It's very playable but you were just complaining about poor performance issues?

yeh, 50-60fps is better than 30fps (especially when you used to 70fps in dod source in 1600x1200 max everything)

 

[JonnyGLC]

yeh, 50-60fps is better than 30fps (especially when you used to 70fps in dod source in 1600x1200 max everything)

Yes, and i've said why it's not really playable... Ultra settings

 

[geeza]

Yes, and i've said why it's not really playable... Ultra settings

nah, im sure its because its an openGL game and 4xAA kills it.

 

[HangTime]

Well, according to Carmack, Ultra mode in D3 is only intended for 512meg cards.

 

[JonnyGLC]

nah, im sure its because its an openGL game and 4xAA kills it.

Ok, you think that then mate

 

[Paulj]

Well, according to Carmack, Ultra mode in D3 is only intended for 512meg cards.

NO, it will run fine on 256MB cards aslong as you have plenty of system RAM, similarly to BF2

 

[geeza]

NO, it will run fine on 256MB cards aslong as you have plenty of system RAM, similarly to BF2

2gig ram here. I find it hard to believe that 512mb is only really for ultra settings. On those reviews it was getting around the same as my card (40fps) then with the tweat/fix or whatever it was going up into the 60s

all im trying to establish is -what fix/tweak is it?

 

[Kipper67]

this is probably what you were thinking of http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12732&highlight=doom but as you can see the "fix" is now in the drivers


edit - nevermind ignore me just noticed my article is from way before the X1xx release so wouldn't affect your card

 

[FeFiDoh]

instead of being a tit and saying that aint it, try it on HIGH instead of ULTRA is there any diff?

 

[JonnyGLC]

NO, it will run fine on 256MB cards aslong as you have plenty of system RAM, similarly to BF2

No it won't, jesus christ.

Graphics ram and system ram are two TOTALLY different things. If the game needs 512mb of VIDEO memory, it needs 512mb of VIDEO memory and not SYSTEM memory.

 

[MiGSY]

I ran it with ultra textures on my X800XT PE(256mb) and it was fine, although there were some very slight pauses in places.

 

[geeza]

instead of being a tit and saying that aint it, try it on HIGH instead of ULTRA is there any diff?

insults, u will be banished from this palce