Radeon 9800 Pro problem

Sun Nov 30, 2003 10:49 pm by Rabadabadingdong

I know this subject has been posted over and over but I am at a serious loss as to what I should do and none of the information found was really useful.

Whenever I play Freelancer and move the cursor over any highlightable text in places such as the main menu, the FPS go down enormously from an average of 75 frames to a crappy 25 frames. I have no clue what to do and any suggestions are welcome.

I have a lead as to where the problem could be fixed: in the flconfigdatabase.txt file in the EXE folder, it seems that there is no support for the 9800 or for ANY of the R360 graphics processors. So if anyone knows what to do in that file, please tell me!

My current system is the following one:
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ @1.83 (11*166)
AOpen AK79D-400VN (NF2 Ultra 400 + MPC)
512MB Kingston PC3200 DDR RAM @ 166MHz (2-3-3-7)
BB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
120GB WD 8MB Cache
LG DVD ROM
Pioneer A06 DVD Burner
Win2k

I have all the latest drivers for motherboard, video card, OS patches, etc.

So any help would be appreciated. Don't be afraid to go indepth about hardware and software. I know the lingo...

Thanks!

Wed Dec 03, 2003 2:52 pm by corwin02

Go to your card properties and

Set fastwrite to off in smartgart
Set Direct3d and open gl to balanced in 3d
Set anti alliassing to app preference
and turn off truform

Time is too short to hate everybody , just hate a few

Sat Dec 06, 2003 2:38 pm by Rabadabadingdong

I'd like to begin by saying thanks for helping me out! I appreciate it.

Unfortunatly, after checking my settings and playing with them, nothing has worked. I've also tried lowering the hardware acceleration by a notch but the game still skips whenever I pass the cursor over a cursor activated animation.

Man this blows chunks... I really wanted to play FL...

I'm going to see of I can get anything at the Rage3D forums.

If anyone would still like to post some possible ways of fixing this problem, you're welcome to do so.

Sun Dec 14, 2003 2:23 pm by lvxoccvlta

lower hardware accelleration TWO notches.. that worked for me.

One notch had no effect.

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