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post #21 of 32
8/18/04 at 1:34am

What kind of tweaks?

I have the same spec XPS that tyger does and I got like a 5440 or something around there on the 3dmark also on my 9800 mobility. That was before I found out from this forum that there is apparently a Catalyst driver upgrade from Dell's website. I am going to borrow a copy of my friend's Doom 3 tomorrow and run a few tests and see how good I do. I dont know however if the Catalyst drivers have the new Opengl patch that some employee of ATIs created that optimizes the card and thus squeezes out a bunch more frames on Doom 3 on X800 based cards or not. But anyway my question is what tweaks are you talking about tripp?
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post #22 of 32
8/18/04 at 1:43am
unforuntantly im doing a project right now else i would show ya all, but i will post within next day or so...

search for Doom 3 tweaks.. Google it baby!
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post #23 of 32
8/18/04 at 2:34am
I installed the Dell Ati drivers and I got a 6590 from a 5440 or something like that...my friends with a desktop 9800 pro got a 5800. Is this driverset a hack or something?
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post #24 of 32
8/18/04 at 2:47am
no, but ATI has NOT had a good OpenGL implementation in the past, so with Doom3 coming out, and being the biggest OGL product in a while, and one that there's no way they could afford to let nVidia crush them in, they have finally focused on fixing their OGL drivers
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post #25 of 32
8/18/04 at 3:11am
Yes rogueone I agree but I am curious if you know more about the patch that I have been hearing about that is being released by an ATI employee at beyond3d where he claims a 14 % improvement just in Doom 3 across the board on X800 graphics card. I havent had time to look into it but my friend from school has and I was wondering if you could enlighten on that
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post #26 of 32
8/19/04 at 2:46am

My Doom3 Performance w/M11

After performing several tweaks I've been able to get this game running awesome on the M9700!!

Here's a chart.... you'll notice it barely goes below 30FPS!

Doom3 Chart
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post #27 of 32
8/19/04 at 2:48am
One of the changes I made was the shader tweak released by Humus. Offers a slight improvement for the M11.

Jap_
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post #28 of 32
8/20/04 at 4:35am
tyger I'm puzzled. After 2 hours of tweaking. I'm getting between 25-40 fps average at 1280x1024 with my 128 ati 9600 clocked at 399/240. Very similar to your score. Maybe if you tweak more you can get a substantial increase in the fps.

I found out, if you play in windowed mode, there is a significant increase in fps. I think that's how I will play from now on. The games looks spectacular. The new aw's modded omega driver works like a charm. After numerous test I get about 5 more fps with the new interaction.vfp that many are talking about in the aw forum, which is the shader tweak Jap is talking about.
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post #29 of 32
8/20/04 at 4:52am
Hey tyger, I ran a timedemo bench today on Doom 3 and I got 30 fps at 1024 and high settings. And when I ran at Ultra high settings I was able to get 28 fps. How are you guys with the iXPS getting 37 fps in 1024 and high settings and 30 fps at 1024 and ultra high settings? I have Catalyst 4.8 or whatever drivers that are on the Dell website. Any tips for the newbie ?
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post #30 of 32
8/20/04 at 4:55am
hehe and you too dell-spike any pearls of wisdom for me?
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post #31 of 32
8/20/04 at 5:15am
Try out the AW 8.05 driver which is a modded catalyst driver. Note only for ati cards.
ftp://www.alienware.com/Laptop/766/V...ility_8.05.zip

Perform Jammaster's registery tweak found here. Backup registry first though. I hear that it will turn off themes if you want it. It basically is a lil script that will turn off all the unneeded windows services.
http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=26579

Aliendude in the AW forums packaged a nice lil tweak folder that contains Hummus's shader tweak. http://notebookforums.com/attachment...achmentid=2138

This also helps. Follow the directions in the article. They said put in the doomconfig.cfg which you can do. You can also do in-game by pressing alt-ctrl-~ and adding them manually.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17732

If you wanna do some reading on what things to tweak here is a link if you haven't gone there yet.
http://www.tweakguides.com/Doom3_1.html
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post #32 of 32
8/20/04 at 5:40am
Those are a lot of tidbits of info. I thank you Dell-Spike...will need to spend some time reading and trying them out it seems. Thanks a lot.
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