Radeon 64DDR very slow in Crimson Skies

[thietavu]

Yes, the performance of 64DDR varies very strangely... For example, Quake III or Unreal run just fine whereas 3Dmark 99 gets clearly worse (!) results than my old G400MAX! New Crimson Skies looks to be the worst performer of all; the framerate isn't playable at 1024x768 with full details, and it's choppy even at 800x600 & medium details. 640x480 software rendering mode is faster than the same Radeon-accelerated mode!

Can't be natural; something strange here. Using 7xxx-drivers (the ones everyone talks about), Tbird 1005 MHz, WinME, DX8, 256 Mb RAM. Just one thought: is C.Skies a 16-bit display-only game? At least my Radeon seems to love 32 bit and almost hate some 16-bit games...

Thanks for any info/advice!
T.

[Jolt2]

I play Crimson Skies and it runs great on my system. I have an Intel Celeron @850 on a Intel BX chipset motherboard. I'm running the same game settings as you, the 7020 drivers and DX8.

It would seem that the problem would be with the VIA chipset drivers or settings for the chipset, as a lot of post on this board are about the VIA problems. Not to many people have posted game problems that have the Intel chipsets. Do you the newest VIA 4in1 drivers? You may want to look at other posts here about the VIA problems in other games or check for info on Radeon setup.

Also, I have the newest patch for Crimson Skies installed (ver 1.02). I know the game played fine though with version 1.00.

[FarENheiT]

I also heard that getting one of the radeon tweakers and enabling fog helps too.

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