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Merina - ex-Student  |
I'm kinda confused about JA. I have a ATI Radeon 9600 with the latest driver(4.9) and the latest direct X. Now here's the thing: JA actually runs like crap, I mean I get 30 fps most of the time!!! I'm shocked because Far Cry and Unreal Tournament 2004 actually run much better then JA. In JA when I'm on a server with alot of people fighting my fps drops to 20, and when I walk away back to 30. Also when I use force heal my fps drops down to 10 or something. My specs: AMD Athlon 2800+ ATI Radeon 9600 series 128 M 256 MB Ram Phoenix-AwardBIOS V 6.00PG |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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I've got the 9600XT 128MB too, and get the FPS drop during pushes/pulls, as well as certain areas of KotOR. ATi has JKA and KotOR as "known issues" games, but that's about all for now. Contrary to other people, I suggest getting the newest drivers, and making sure you have plenty of nice fast RAM. In JKA in particular, AA/AF also make huge hits. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Kaz - Student 
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what fps do u get in game? at the spawn point on the Academy map, with my graphics settings at fast, i get just over 30 fps. Today i d/l the latest catlayst driver 4.10 i think, and it still runs as pants  |
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{-A-}/<yle - Student 
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I'm currently using the 9600SE, running at optimal settings with a 1024x768 resolution and I haven't noticed this problem. Have you checked you texture rendering settings? What resolution are you using? *edit* ALthough I doubt it, it might also be a RAM issue. I'm using 512MB DDR by the way but I don't think that's your problem. _______________ Please visit the Arcane Academy, IP:206.251.236.204:29070. Hosted by Mammoth Games. This comment was edited by {-A-}/<yle on Oct 17 2004 05:37am. |
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Kaz - Student
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how do u work out what version of that catalyst driver thingyu have? i have a 9600 pro or whatever it is.. and i don't get particularly wonderful fps either  |
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Jaren - Student 
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The trick to getting Jedi Acadamy running nicely on a Radeon 9600 is to disable two things, First, The annoying bubble effect on push/pull, And Dynamic Glow. Once those are disabled, You will notice a signifigant difference. I dont know if other people experiance problems with the distort effect on push/pull, But it kills the game on my Radeon 9600 Pro, You can disable that with cg_rendertotexturefx 0 I beleive. The imoroving your FPS/Ping thread details how to disable Dynamic Glow, Especially usefull if your running JA 1.0, Where it cant be disabled in the More Video options menu. Hope that helps, Sure helped me, The push/pull effect was a nightmare for me. _______________ Yargh! |
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Jarhok Belouve - Student 
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i got a crappy 9200 that runs jk ja fine along wif far cry i dunno the cause of ure problem???  _______________ -JARHOK BELOUVE- Unofficial Paddy to the great Squibit Belouve and Solitudes snog machine! |||||||||||||||||||||||PRONOUNCED JARHOK TEH S3X3H by Alexander D'kana||||||||||||||||||||||||| Loves Liso'sia! Uber new Belouve boy! My special people: Squibit Belouve,Roan Belouve,Bail Hope Belouve and of course the lovely Liso'sia! |
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Devlin - Student 
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Oh, and by the way...i've got a ati 9600 xt 128 MB just in case you were wondering  _______________ Be at peace, and you will discover things you never dreamed possible. |
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Devlin - Student 
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I'm having the same problem...i'm gonna switch back to catalyst driver 4.8. When i was using that i was getting like 160 fps all the way. I can't explain why driver 4.9 causes such a drop in fps. It might have something to do with the fact that 4.9 is supposed to be the "Doom 3" driver, so maybe it makes other games worse? _______________ Be at peace, and you will discover things you never dreamed possible. |
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Ris Win Juljul - Padawan 
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i have a 9600 XT and that runs fine my FPS stays the same all the way through about 80-90 Ris  _______________ -Padawan of Virtue -Brother of Menaxia, *|irael, Krynn Adept, Majno, Mic Den Octela, DaMi3N, Beowulf, Dash Starlight, Carrock and Yuken Zalak -Proud owner to Mics 100th and 777th comment's, Lady C's 700th Comment and Emm's 100th Comment ^^ -A Proud Knight of Nippledom |
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Antares - Student 
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I have a Radeon 9600 too, and the only problem I have is a major, momentary fps drop whenever someone pushes or pulls in my immediate vecinity _______________ "only two things are infinite: Human stupidity and the universe. And i'm not sure about the latter" Albert Einstein Proud padawan to Obi-Wan Kenobi, Brother to Tido, Setementor, Jalune and Jana-Johauna This comment was edited by Antares on Sep 16 2004 06:27pm. |
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Mookie - Ex-Student 
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Though I have Radeon 9200 SE and it still runs smooth. Uninstall your drivers and use Driver Cleaner 3, then install the drivers again. |
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Xan - Student 
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"ATI Radeon 9600 series 128 M" know the exact model? if its an SE it might explain quite a bit _______________ Yes...I'm back again |
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Masta - Jedi Council 
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Yup, try reinstalling the drivers. If the problem still isnt solved, try installing different drivers (IE the beta drivers). But...maybe you just have FSAA and FSAF enabled? It lets my FPS drop heavily with both 8xFSAA and 8xFSAF >_> ...i heard that you actually can play Doom3 with 60FPS while 8xFSAA and 8xFSAF enabled...you need the 6800U tho =P (btw...i have a GeForce FX 5800 Ultra...works fine lol) _______________ Find out more about the Jedi Academy Aurochs here and more about Masta here! Married to Kain. This comment was edited by Masta on Sep 13 2004 12:53pm. |
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Henkes - Student 
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Merina, maybe you should try a older catalyst driver. When I run KOTOR it runned like cr*p with the latest drivers, I downloaded some older drivers and it ran smoothly. _______________ Get on your feet and do the Funky Alfonzo! |
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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LoL I think he's asking for help guys, not what you have  Well, check this for some FPS tweaking tricks. Other than that, try turning down your video settings so everything is "medium" quality, or even low if you must. _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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GremReaper - Student 
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I have ATI 8500LE 128mb Works good. But want X800. _______________ Xfire--kdgremreaper This comment was edited by GremReaper on Sep 13 2004 05:30am. |
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Iceman - away- - Student |
I use Radeon 9600 256 and I have no problem with jk:ja |
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