JudasTheSlick on 31/1/2009 at 17:48
I had some problems running the game on Vista after all these years but thanks to this great community I managed to resolve them. Unfortunately now I'm experiencing another problem. I got back into FMs and even tho I have the hardware to run the game normally I experience dips in FPS at some points in FMs, sometimes as low as 10-12.
My current specs are:
DDFix 1.3.11
C2D Mobile T8300@2GHz
3Gb ram @ 667MHz
Vista Home Premium 32bit
Radeon HD3650 with Catalyst 9.1 drivers
I don't use AA or AF. Played through "The Night Watch" (great FM for those that haven't tried it yet) andthe game was litterally crawling at points. I don't think my windows needs a reinstall coz my other games like Bioshock and Guild Wars run ok.
Thanks in advance for your help
P.S.
I have also installed the Enchancement Pack and the NTEX texture patch but even without them I had these slowdowns
JudasTheSlick on 9/2/2009 at 19:14
Taff it still no replies?
I'm suspecting it's the speed step thingie on the processor but there doesn't seem to be an potion in the bios to disable it. Curse you OEMs and your trickstery bioses
Hiatus on 10/2/2009 at 04:56
no, this - "Radeon HD3650" is the culprit of fps slowdowns. Basicly, all ATI DX 10.0+ parts (HD 2xxx series and up) have this issue in Dark Engine games (reason is most likely both hardware - removal of "legacy" parts from the chip die - and software - broken older D3D/DDraw versions calls in Catalyst drivers for these chips - based).
other older DX games (below DX8) suffer the same thing as well - it's a major breakage on ATI's part :(.
JudasTheSlick on 10/2/2009 at 11:58
Quote Posted by Hiatus
no, this - "Radeon HD3650" is the culprit of fps slowdowns. Basicly, all ATI DX 10.0+ parts (HD 2xxx series and up) have this issue in Dark Engine games (reason is most likely both hardware - removal of "legacy" parts from the chip die - and software - broken older D3D/DDraw versions calls in Catalyst drivers for these chips - based).
other older DX games (below DX8) suffer the same thing as well - it's a major breakage on ATI's part :(.
Does this mean that if I revert to an older version of ddfix (like 1.1.1.1) that if I'm not mistaken uses dx9 the slowdowns will cease?
Will test it out soon
