I know that this is off-topic, but many of you are very knowledgable at
tweaking videocard settings to maximize framerates, so I thought that
I'd ask this question here. I recently replaced my Voodoo5 with a
Radeon 8500LE. Although I'm somewhat pleased with the increase in video
performance, the improvement was not quite what I expected. This was
confirmed today, when I ran 3D2001SE for the first time, and got a score
of only 3981. From what I understand, this card should be scoring more
in the 8000 range. So, I assume that my settings are way off, and I'm
asking those with a Radeon for advice on what to change on the following
settings:
Mobo: Epox 8Kha+
CPU: Athlon 1700XP
RAM 512 Megs of DDR2100
OS Win 98SE
Video Driver: Catalyst Driver 2.1 (Would changing to 2.3 really make
that big a difference?)
BIOS Settings: AGP: 4X
AGP Aperture: 64 (Changing this to 128 locks up
my system).
AGP Driving Control: Auto
AGP Fast Writes: DISABLED (Should this be
enabled?)
Within Rage3D Tweaker, here are my settings:
D3D:
Main settings: Custom (as follows)
Anistropic Filtering: Application Preference
Smoothvision: Application Preference - Performance
Texture Preference: High Quality
MipMap Detail Level: High Quality
VSync: Always Off
OpenGL:
Main Settings: Balanced
Anistropic Filtering: Application Preference
Smoothvision: Disabled
Texture Preference: Quality
MipMap Detail Level: High Quality
VSync Always Off
I can't find where to set Anti-Aliasing On or Off, so I don't know what
it is presently set at.
Any suggestions for tweaking these settings to maximize my framerates
would be greatly appreciated. The sims I run most are GPL (I know that
the max rate there is 36), F12002, LFS Demo, NR2002, GP4, and F12001
Mods. And, yes, I turn everything that's running in the background
off. I run everything at 1024x768 at 16 bit color.
As always, thanks for your help, guys.
Bert