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For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
09.09.04 at 12:27:42  
Did anyone here try the 4.9 beta drivers with the doom3 hotfix? did they yeild better performance?

i'm asking cause i see alot of people on different forums with dx9 ati boards who get amazing speed ups by using the 4.9 drivers, but my radeon 8500 actually got a performance penalty by using 4.9 compared to 4.8 final..
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Reply #1 - 09.09.04 at 13:22:50  
You're better off trying the inofficial ATI Shader Patch :

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14967

Performance gains I observed were quite impressive, much higher than this Doom3 Cat4.9beta...
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Reply #2 - 09.09.04 at 15:52:21  
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You're better off trying the inofficial ATI Shader Patch :


Just did the mod to the file this morning, no increase in performance while running ATI 04.5 drivers.

32 fps before and after, my 128 megs of video ram maybe playing a larger factor since I'm running in high quality mode 800 x 600 2x AA
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Reply #3 - 09.09.04 at 21:01:30  
I have been running  Cat. 4.8 since being released, I did'nt want to install the entire 4.9 beta driver so I just put the ati gl driver in my doom3 folder, I got a 1-1/2 fps increase which was nothing compared to the 8 fps increase after doing the shader modification.
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Reply #4 - 09.09.04 at 22:39:43  
I have gained 4-5 more fps in Timedemo... So it can be worht to try it  Wink
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Reply #5 - 09.09.04 at 22:49:12  
For me it became very playable in 1280x1024 even, I'd say I got 25-30% out of it.
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Reply #6 - 10.09.04 at 00:00:03  
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For me it became very playable in 1280x1024 even, I'd say I got 25-30% out of it.


Card specs? Remember I only have 128 megs on board.
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Reply #7 - 10.09.04 at 00:01:52  
Nothing fancy : Radeon 9800pro 128MB...
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Reply #8 - 10.09.04 at 00:25:23  
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Nothing fancy : Radeon 9800pro 128MB...


Time to upgrade them drivers and see what shakes loose.
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Reply #9 - 10.09.04 at 00:29:31  
Beware that (just remembered) I combined the Shader Patch with all of the other Tweaks listed in the Thread. Some of that certainly did their part I guess.
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Reply #10 - 10.09.04 at 00:34:29  
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Beware that (just remembered) I combined the Shader Patch with all of the other Tweaks listed in the Thread. Some of that certainly did their part I guess.


Ahh No tweaks on my Doom config.
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Reply #11 - 10.09.04 at 04:50:45  
Ditto here also! Wink

I have a finely tweaked DOOM 3 CFG file, plus the shader patch (I posted the link - somewhere?)
AND the CAT 4.9b drivers! Grin

I got a nice 3-5fps jump after the tweaks! 8)

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Reply #12 - 10.09.04 at 13:47:34  
Wooooo-friggin-hoooooo Grin

Catalyst 4.9 Final drivers are FINALLY out Cheesy:D

Links;
Catalyst 4.9 + Catalyst Control Center [46mB]
Catalyst 4.9 + ATi Control Panel [26mB]

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Reply #13 - 10.09.04 at 18:39:05  
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Catalyst 4.9 Final drivers are FINALLY out Cheesy:D



FPS jumped from 32 to 35 on my PC.
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Reply #14 - 10.09.04 at 18:53:44  
22 -> 27 here  Grin
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