Originally posted by: error8
Just noticed this at the end of the review: "we received some questions regarding asking the nature of the lag we had with the ATI drivers. The lag that I described boils down to minor video stutters during the timedemo runs. It's a fraction of a second and a lot less noticeable in the actual gameplay itself."
"Boils down to minor stutters" my ass. It's all over the game and it's killing the gameplay....
Originally posted by: thilan29
Originally posted by: error8
Just noticed this at the end of the review: "we received some questions regarding asking the nature of the lag we had with the ATI drivers. The lag that I described boils down to minor video stutters during the timedemo runs. It's a fraction of a second and a lot less noticeable in the actual gameplay itself."
"Boils down to minor stutters" my ass. It's all over the game and it's killing the gameplay....
With or without the hotfix for you?
Originally posted by: error8
With the hotfix....
Originally posted by: thilan29
Originally posted by: error8
With the hotfix....
Did you try playing without the hotfix? I think the hotfix was mostly to get Crossfire working. If you try it...do a clean install of the previous driver.
Originally posted by: MarcVenice
SSChevy, some screenshots of that loop please, so we can judge the eye candy for yourselfs
Originally posted by: error8
Originally posted by: thilan29
Originally posted by: error8
With the hotfix....
Did you try playing without the hotfix? I think the hotfix was mostly to get Crossfire working. If you try it...do a clean install of the previous driver.
That is an idea. I'll do it a bit later.
Originally posted by: error8
Ok, so I uninstalled Catalyst, did a driver sweeper, reinstalled 8.10 and didn't used the hot fix this time.
My results are:
* Average Framerate: 32.86
* Max. Framerate: 50.75
* Min. Framerate: 21.74
But, now, the game is totally unplayable. I loaded my saved game, which is the first checkpoint in the game and there I have like 10 fps, is much worst then before. It's just a slide show. It seems that ATI has this game screwed up. We need 8.11 or another hot fix for it to become playable.
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Might be a good time to do some memory usage testing. Can anyone who has this game find out how much texture memory is being used at highest settings? I wanted to see if 512MB is a limitation for this game. And if the 640/768/896/1GB cards have an advantage at the same settings. I mean the stuttering of course. not fps.
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Unfortunately, we can't AFAIK, because of the way Vista handles video memory virtualization. Normally, I'd use Riva Tuner to measure vid mem usage, but looks like it's not possible with Vista.
One thing you can to Apoppin, is to try this game with your 4870512 at max settings, and then again with your 4870 1GB with same settings.
-sadly i do not have any 512MB cards - except for a 2900xt; all are 1GB.
Originally posted by: vj8usa
I'm getting the same stuttering issue as error8. It'll freeze and skip forward for a split second every few seconds, and it's extremely annoying.
I'm also getting framerates a lot lower than I expected... DX10, 1680x1050 maxed, I'm getting about 14/25/40 min/avg/max (ranch small). I thought I might be CPU limited, so I forced power settings to keep my CPU throttled down to 2GHz. Lo and behold, my min framerates slightly improved, which makes no sense.
edit: Just ran some tests at 1280x800. Virtually all the stuttering disappeared, so maybe I was running out of framebuffer. The game becomes more CPU limited at 1280, showing a big difference between 2 and 3 GHz (27 vs 34 FPS). I also reran 1680 with AA off, and got some stuttering, but less than at 4xAA. Framerates were decent (22/31/47).
I still don't really understand why my 1680 4xAA results were so much lower than the article's findings, especially considering that I'm GPU limited at those settings (my results with AA off are worse than theirs with AA on).
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
I don't have the game yet, but I could pick it up (as I absolutely planned to anyway) and compare 9800GTX+ 512 vs. GTX280 for stuttering (fps aside).
@ Apoppin: Oops, I skimmed. I thought you were trying out Trifire with a 4870X2 and a 4870 512? I know you got the 4870 1GB, but I didn't realize you got rid of the 512.
Originally posted by: error8
Ok, so I uninstalled Catalyst, did a driver sweeper, reinstalled 8.10 and didn't used the hot fix this time.
My results are:
* Average Framerate: 32.86
* Max. Framerate: 50.75
* Min. Framerate: 21.74
But, now, the game is totally unplayable. I loaded my saved game, which is the first checkpoint in the game and there I have like 10 fps, is much worst then before. It's just a slide show. It seems that ATI has this game screwed up. We need 8.11 or another hot fix for it to become playable.
Originally posted by: vj8usa
I'm getting the same stuttering issue as error8. It'll freeze and skip forward for a split second every few seconds, and it's extremely annoying.
Originally posted by: thilan29
This is from the PCGameshardware:
"So if you don't plan to run the Africa shooter on a Crossfire system in DX9, you should stay with the 8.9 WHQL. During our tests Far Cry 2 was running faster with this driver than with the Catalyst 8.10 or the two Hotfixes. "
Originally posted by: Astroluna
where would mt 9800GT overclocked fall in that graph?
Originally posted by: Astroluna
where would mt 9800GT overclocked fall in that graph?
Originally posted by: thilan29
This is from a PCGameshardware review:
"So if you don't plan to run the Africa shooter on a Crossfire system in DX9, you should stay with the 8.9 WHQL. During our tests Far Cry 2 was running faster with this driver than with the Catalyst 8.10 or the two Hotfixes. "
Originally posted by: error8
Well that is sad. I have to reinstall the drivers again. How on earth do they manage to fuc** up the drivers so badly? Thanks for this advice, thilan. I was about to wait for cat 8.11 for this game.