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Title: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by DenisF on 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..

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by FalconFly on 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...

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by gdonovan on 09.09.04 at 15:52:21

wrote on 09.09.04 at 13:22:50:

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

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by voodoo5500 on 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.

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by sloomy on 09.09.04 at 22:39:43

I have gained 4-5 more fps in Timedemo... So it can be worht to try it ;)

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by FalconFly on 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.

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by gdonovan on 10.09.04 at 00:00:03

wrote on 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.

Card specs? Remember I only have 128 megs on board.

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by FalconFly on 10.09.04 at 00:01:52

Nothing fancy : Radeon 9800pro 128MB...

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by gdonovan on 10.09.04 at 00:25:23

wrote on 10.09.04 at 00:01:52:

Nothing fancy : Radeon 9800pro 128MB...

Time to upgrade them drivers and see what shakes loose.

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by FalconFly on 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.

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by gdonovan on 10.09.04 at 00:34:29

wrote on 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.

Ahh No tweaks on my Doom config.

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by paulpsomiadis on 10.09.04 at 04:50:45

Ditto here also! ;)

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

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

SWEET! 8)

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by DenisF on 10.09.04 at 13:47:34

Wooooo-friggin-hoooooo ;D

Catalyst 4.9 Final drivers are FINALLY out :D:D

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

* hopes for the best

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by gdonovan on 10.09.04 at 18:39:05

wrote on 10.09.04 at 13:47:34:

Wooooo-friggin-hoooooo ;D

Catalyst 4.9 Final drivers are FINALLY out :D:D

FPS jumped from 32 to 35 on my PC.

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by DenisF on 10.09.04 at 18:53:44

22 -> 27 here ;D

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by paulpsomiadis on 11.09.04 at 03:44:58

Anyone tried that 'control centre' yet? ???

Is it better (more tweak options) or worse (built for morons) than the ATI control panel...? :P

Let me know so I can DL the 'correct' one! ;)

PEACE! 8)

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 27.10.04 at 00:51:51

My setup:

Dual AthlonMP 2200+ TBred-A 2x 1.8Ghz, 256KB L2 .
ASUS A7M266-D Rev 1.02 AMD AM760MPX Bios 1009
1x 1GB PC-2100 ECC Reg. Twin-Moss
Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro 128MB DDR
SB Audigy2 Platinum

Windows 2000 Professional + Service Pack4
DirectX 9.0c
ATI Catalyst 4.10

"FIREFOX"

Well Doom3 does it really well on this system, SMP is detected :D at Reso 1024 x 768 x 32 all Detail settings on @ High. I recieve an avr. of 42 Frames per sec, in single CPU config i get about 28 frames per sec, so SMP really rocks in Doom3.

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by voodoo5500 on 27.10.04 at 00:58:43

@Obi-Wan_Kenobi,

Nice rig ;)

Title: Re: For all ya fanATIcs who play doom3
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 27.10.04 at 20:15:17

yeah thanx, on that, but sorry 'bout the darkness in my room, it's kinda a dark place where it is standing hehe :D

It Ran Win2K Pro for 2 years so I gave it a fresh install two weeks ago, and still rinn'n nice and easy.