Are you happy with your ATI Radeon 3D performance?

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

See, UT2004 has what they call processor "clips" in which things have to stop for a sec and catch up even on the top-of-the-line processors when running Windows. However, Linux doesn't have that problem, and the game works faster. I know for certain that my 3D performance in Linux is better than ever in Windows, and my friend was getting about 40fps in Linux with his card that he got about 20 at the highest with in Windows. NVIDIA supports Linux a lot, and maybe even more than it does Windows.

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Paranoid · Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 7:00 pm Post subject:

Shift,

The card is a little tweaked.... Originally it was a OEM 8500 only clocked at 225/225 where as ATI 8500s are 275/275. So I flashed it with a custom ATI 8500 bios with the clock speeds changed to 285/285. A little voltage mod and some heatsinks on the mem chips (which are the slower 4.Xns vs. the 3.9ns mem the ATI's have). Amazingly it hasn't fried yet, been running it this way for 3+ years! Man I need to upgrade....
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tupperworx · Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:34 pm Post subject:

@All: c'm on, glxgears isnt a serious comparable benchmark! So please don't take it for real...

Just resize the running Window and you can double/triple your glxgears fps :roll:

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RedDawn · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 1:31 am Post subject: Kewl

I know this might not mean much but you never know...

In Windows Xp when i install bzflag and played it with my. 9800 SE PRO 128 MB

I would get around 20-40 frames persecond which sucked.... i gave my Nvidia GeForce MX 440 for that card... ( yeah dumbass ) i though...

But when i installed Gentoo yesturday... Im genting like 120-140 frames persecond...

that's twice as fast as my Nvidia card! :lol:

So i cant complain...

Specs:

Abit IT7-Max2 v2.0
Pentium 4 3.06Ghz 533FSB
1GB Ram PC2700
ATI 9200 SE PRO 128MB
40GB Seagate HD Raid_Master
80GB Seagate HD Raid_Slave
8.9GB IBM SCSI HD Scsi_Master
52x32x52 Burner
16x52 Dvd-Rom
5.1 Sorround Sound
USB 2.0
Firewire

:twisted:

( not the best but eh... )

ebrostig · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 2:16 am Post subject:

I'm not sure what resolution you run and what program you use to get the framerate.

i was just running glxgears on my new AMD64 with an 9200SE card under xorg-x11 and i get around 1200 fps which is quite a bit more than you get. I run 1280x1024.

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Spyretto · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 2:55 am Post subject:

i get 3D deceleration with ati drivers for my 9200
the bad thing is that it is a laptop and i can't get rid of it !

NVIDIA offers excellent support even though they are closed source.
I ll have it in mind next time :twisted:

shift · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject:

shift · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject:

Nephren-Ka · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 8:42 pm Post subject:

Man, ATI drivers in Linux just bite the big one. I ran a timedemo in WinXP, in 1280x1024@32bpp@2xFSAA (no AF)...and I got 35FPS (very intense demo). In linux? I get 15.233FPS with the 3.9.0 Driverset.

My system is no slouch either:

P4 2.4C @3300MHz/1100FSB
1GB PC3500
Radeon 9700np 128MB
2x Seagate 200GB SATA
Kernel 2.6.7(vanilla), ATI 3.9.0 Binary drivers

Ugh, makes me sick. To just post my glxgears scores:

syscrash · Guru Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 541

They really aren't too bad for me. I run 3.2.8-r2. The only game that I really play is enemy territory and that runs great. I've also tried the ut2004 demo and that flies too. Radeon 8500LE and Athlon XP 2500+, 1GB ram.

nighty · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 6:32 pm Post subject:

i find it funny that ati open sourced their drivers yet their drivers crawl.
i believe someone in the linux community should start writting drivers with game performance in mind that pretty much support only the radeon series.

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Pigeon · Guru Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 307

They released some of their specs, not open-sourced their drivers.

And the drivers that are being discussed in this thread, the 'ati-drivers' package in portage, is closed source. (and sucks)

My Radeon 9600 isn't even as good as the GeForce 2 it was replacing. (in linux)

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ATI 9200SE 128MB
2.6.6
media-video/ati-drivers-3.9.0-r1

-Octane- · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 24

I haven't done any scientific benchmark but my pc was slow at gaming with a R9700, 3.9 ati drivers and kernel 2.6.5 (dual xeon 2.66 and 1g of ram also)
I tried everything i could, nothing improved my fps , it was around an average of 40fps with ut2004 in 1024x768 32bits everything set to minimum.
Yesterday i took my gf ti4200, and out of the box (i only changed the graphics driver), i got 120-150fps with the same settings.

And glxinfo was correct, glxgears was around 3000fps with the radeon.
My next card will be an nvidia 6800, as i really don't understand why the radeon performance is so bad (sucky drivers i suppose).

R!tman · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 8:02 pm Post subject:

Gaming is the only reason for me to keep windows on my hd. ET runs fine, but in AA I have quite few fps (10-20), in windows much more (40-60, 40 is absolute minimum)

My next pc WILL (!!!) have an nvidia card.