The Solution to Bad ATI Performance in games (eg UT2004)

proudclod · 06-03-2004, 03:44 PM

Find ATI Driver 3.2.5 and the necessary patches and install them!

I have tried 3.2.8, 3.7.6 and 3.9.0, but 3.2.5 blew me away.

I get double the framerate i used to get with 3.7.6 and 3.9.0 in UT2004, making it just as fast as on my windows box!

Also, Savage speeds up by a similar factor, making it playable.

I would recommend that anyone with necessary smarts check these out. They mean for me that I can now game on Linux - bye bye dual boot

Micro420 · 06-03-2004, 04:15 PM

I have the 3.2.5 drivers if anyone can't find them. I currently use the 3.2.5 drivers and UT2004 runs fine on my computer. I'm using Mandrake 9.1, Radeon 9700 Pro.

Menestrel · 06-09-2004, 04:02 AM

could you post a link to a ati 3.2.5 driver download page ?

Ry12 · 06-09-2004, 07:52 AM

Why would the earlier drivers be better than the later ones?
and where could i dl them drivers and the patches for suse 9.0 and fedora core 2.

proudclod · 06-09-2004, 11:21 AM

The latest drivers are just plain rubbish. I don't know why they (3.2.5) work better, but they do.

As for download locations, my webserver is down, and I've lost the files from my pc

jimdaworm · 06-09-2004, 01:23 PM

I am also curious to install these older drivers and see if it increases my framerates. Although I don´t have unreal2004 installed, but I am unable to find these drivers. Anywhere we can get them from yet??

Micro420 · 06-09-2004, 04:47 PM

I have the RPM file saved on my computer. Does anybody know of any website/FTP that I can host it on? I'd be happy to e-mail it to you , but if 100 people want it, then it's easier for me to get a FTP/website going. I'm pretty sure I have access to an FTP space since I work at a major University. Do you think hosting it on geocities would be a bad idea?

nemat0de · 06-09-2004, 05:54 PM

try here.

jimdaworm · 06-10-2004, 03:09 AM

Thanks nemat0de, thats interesting its 4.2mb and the latest driver is 4.0mbs (I think) I was thinking maby this older driver is faster but lest compatabile

now to try installing it!

proudclod · 06-10-2004, 11:05 AM

you may need patches for it, which i can't find at the moment. I think its the regparm patch.

nemat0de · 06-10-2004, 02:19 PM

and now, patches.