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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Dec 6th at 4:23pm 2004

I used to have a Geforce4 MX460. No good for HL2, so I bought myself a Radeon 9600 Pro, expecting some serious FPS boostage. I uninstalled the Geforce, rebooted, installed the Ati drivers, and launched HL2.

Now, performance is below expectations. At 800*600, with everything on low settings, I only get 15-10 fps in open areas.

Somebody said there could be a conflict with my old drivers, so I uninstalled the Catalyst drivers, ran some Detonator R.I.P.-tool, and installed my ATI drivers again. Still, no FPS gain.

What could be the problem ?

My system:

Amd 1800XP+
512 Mb of Ram
40 Gb HD
WinXP

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Posted by scary_jeff on Mon Dec 6th at 5:51pm 2004

Is it only slower than expected in HL2?



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Posted by Vash on Mon Dec 6th at 7:28pm 2004

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

A good set of drivers for ATI's cards.
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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Dec 6th at 7:40pm 2004

? quote:
Is it only slower than expected in HL2?


No, also in all other games.
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Posted by scary_jeff on Mon Dec 6th at 7:48pm 2004

Is the fan definately okay? If it was too hot it might throttle back or something.

Have you checked your driver settings? Perhaps some optimisations are disabled in the advanced bit (I'm guessing there is an advanced bit, haven't used an ATI for a few years).

Have you tried forcing it to run in a lower than the max supported DX level? DX8 doesn't look much different to DX9, I can't remember the cvar, but it's possible to force whatever render path you want.

Other than that, I don't really know what to say. You are better off asking on a hardware forum like www.ocforums.com or forums.anandtech.com really.



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Posted by ReNo on Mon Dec 6th at 7:53pm 2004

I think its "dxlevel" or something in the console, and I agree you should force it down to "81" or "80" as even my parent's 9600XT runs poorly in DX9. The visual difference is pretty minimal, and the performance boost should let you run in medium settings rather than low. Thats assuming, of course, that this is the problem.

EDIT: If it isn't "dxlevel", you might want to try "find direct x" or some other "find" command in the console, as it will search for your given term in the available cvars.

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