ATI Grapics Cards

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 29 Dec 2006, 05:30

Okay, so I just got a new laptop with a ATI X1300 Radeon Go Card (128MB). I don't know a whole lot about playing spring on an ATI card, because my main machine has a nice nVIDIA card. To get a usable frame rate I had to turn a lot of things way down from what I had them for the nVIDIA 6800 Ultra to get a playable framerate. Does anyone know any tweaks for ATI cards to improve their performance with spring? I know Argh posted a detailed thread about how to improve performance with nVIDIA cards. I'm looking for that kind of advice with the ATI.

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 29 Dec 2006, 23:40

spring haet ATI

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 30 Dec 2006, 01:32

Spring runs fine (with the usual ATI bugs) on an X1300 desktop card.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 30 Dec 2006, 01:43

Comp1337 wrote:spring haet ATI

Replies like that are made of PHAIL.

rattle wrote:Spring runs fine (with the usual ATI bugs) on an X1300 desktop card.

Do you know of any driver settings that can improve performance? It goes to like 3 fps if a com explodes.

LOrDo · Post by **LOrDo** » 30 Dec 2006, 04:39

The truth is, spring randomly hates video cards, ATI or Nvidia (but mostly ATI), for seemingly no reason at all.
Theres little you can do about it sadly.

richw · Post by **richw** » 31 Dec 2006, 18:29

Doesn't spring use OpenGL for gfx? ATI's driver aint the best for OpenGL.

Have you tired updating your gfx drivers?

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/mobility-xp.html

I've paid Spring on AMD64 3000, 1GB / X300's at work with 128MB without many slow downs...

Played Spring @ home on a X800, X1800GTO and now a X1950XT, no problems...

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 31 Dec 2006, 19:01

richw wrote: Have you tired updating your gfx drivers?

Yes.

grumpy_Bastard · Post by **grumpy_Bastard** » 01 Jan 2007, 18:48

LordMatt wrote:Okay, so I just got a new laptop with a ATI X1300 Radeon Go Card (128MB). I don't know a whole lot about playing spring on an ATI card, because my main machine has a nice nVIDIA card. To get a usable frame rate I had to turn a lot of things way down from what I had them for the nVIDIA 6800 Ultra to get a playable framerate. Does anyone know any tweaks for ATI cards to improve their performance with spring? I know Argh posted a detailed thread about how to improve performance with nVIDIA cards. I'm looking for that kind of advice with the ATI.

It might not be any flaws with spring, but with the actual card you are using on your laptop. The X1300 doesnt seem to be rated very well for gaming : http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Gra ... 844.0.html

I can only find game benchmarks for the PCIE version (not sure how much difference there is in the laptop version). It seems to be a fairly low-end budget graphics card.

And what do you have for a cpu? Are you sure its not a cpu bottleneck?

mehere101 · Post by **mehere101** » 01 Jan 2007, 23:07

My Radeon 9600 seems to run spring fine @ medium settings with only the usual ATI bugs. The Mobility cards are what you have to watch out for. I saw one that would move 2 out of 3 vertices to the middle of the screen for no apparent reason, but only if the commander was in view (in AA). No other unit, just the commander for ARM.

Cabbage · Post by **Cabbage** » 01 Jan 2007, 23:37

Really low framerates with no units etc on the screen is usually to do with the processor (duel core) rather than gfx card..

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 02 Jan 2007, 00:29

It's not the processor. CPU usage is less than for most people. I didn't buy this laptop for gaming (I have my desktop for that), but when I got a current generation graphics card I was assuming it wouldn't totally suck. I guess I should have done a little more research. Still since no one seems to know about ATI driver settings I will tinker with them a bit and post any improvements I find.

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