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Attention Radeon users

category: general [glöplog]
We are trying to sort out what goes wrong in the party version of the Legomania demo so if you could take a moment and run these test programs:
http://www.multi.fi/~mbc/dsd/
we would be very thankful. There is a readme.txt file in there with some instructions.

For reference:

System 1: Pentium3 600MHz, GeForce2 MX 32 MB
System 2: Pentium4 2.5 GHz, GeForce4 Ti 4200 128 MB

The tests run at the following speeds (with the default resolution):

Code: 3d.exe 3d_glow.exe 3d_glow_rtt.exe System 1: 41 9 8 FPS System 2: 260 48 44 FPS


Thank you,

MRI/Doomsday
added on the 2003-09-06 10:55:00 by mri mri
i've mailed the results to you! please let us know if you've found the reason for such a bad performance.
added on the 2003-09-06 13:37:47 by cer cer
done the same.
added on the 2003-09-06 21:25:34 by Gargaj Gargaj
I suspect the reason for the huge disparity in performance is that the OGL implementation selects a software path for the rendering technique they've selected.
added on the 2003-09-06 22:36:59 by legalize legalize
isnt that always the reason why opengl is slow on some machines and not others?
added on the 2003-09-06 22:56:33 by psenough psenough
Without glow: 200FPS
With glow (both): ~9FPS

Your rendertarget code must be screwy :P

Running windowed 800x600, Radeon9500Pro on Athlon 1800xp
added on the 2003-09-07 01:08:47 by ector ector
3D: 137 fps. looks like screenshot.
3D_Glow: 33 fps. looks NOT like screenshot - background is screwed and glow texture is static in the front.
3D_Glow_RTT: "There was an unknown exception thrown in this application, probably originating in the demopaja core..."

running windows and fullscreen, radeon monility 9000, pentium m 1.3 ghz.
added on the 2003-09-07 02:13:36 by Delax Delax
P4 3Ghz, R9800 Pro

Test 1: 260 fps Visually ok
Test 2: 12 fps Visually ok
Test 3: 12 fps Visually ok
added on the 2003-09-07 04:39:27 by mac mac
P4 1.7Ghz, R7500 Pro

Test 1: 50 fps Visually ok
Test 2: 4 fps Visually ok
Test 3: 5 fps Visually ok

new Catalyst 3.7
added on the 2003-09-07 14:01:46 by Stv Stv
no glow texture btw...
added on the 2003-09-07 14:04:16 by Stv Stv
i've finaly relaunched legomania with the the catalyst and it run perfect, and i've finaly saw the end :)
added on the 2003-09-07 14:16:35 by Stv Stv
"new catalyst" ....

4 posts... an Optimus is growing on me ;)
added on the 2003-09-07 14:17:56 by Stv Stv
Athlon 2600+, R9700 Pro

Test 1: 220 fps Visually ok
Test 2: 3.3 fps Visually ok
Test 3: 3.3 fps Visually ok

Catalyst 3.6

maybe i should install the newest catalyst Driver
added on the 2003-09-07 14:20:33 by cyb0rg cyb0rg
Pentium IIIm 800 MHz, ATI Rage Mobility M4 32mb

Test 1: between 13.5 and 20.4 FPS, visually ok
Test 2: same framerate as test 1, no glow whatsoever
Test 3: same framerate as test 1, no glow whatsoever

Proprietary Dell Laptop Drivers

The first time after booting that I run any demopaja program, it shows up horizontally offset by about 20 or 30 pixels? (hard to tell) such that the right side is cut off.
added on the 2003-09-07 15:20:00 by crusader crusader
I'm not sure a Rage Mobility qualifies as a Radeon :)
added on the 2003-09-07 15:35:55 by Gargaj Gargaj
test 1: 60 fps
test 2: 5-6 fps
test 3: 5-6 fps

I have a Radeon 9600 PRO and an AMD Athlon 1ghz cpu. All of the above tests looks ok visually.
added on the 2003-09-07 16:38:00 by a_lee_n a_lee_n
P4-HT 2.4ghz, Radeon9800pro 128mb, Catalyst 3.7

Test 1: 105fps
Test 2: 5fps
Test 3: 5fps

All look good visually.. but every test crashes my entire PC on exit! No bluescreen or anything, just a reboot. The Legomania demo did the same, but this hasn't happened with any other demo/game/software so far.
added on the 2003-09-07 17:15:58 by break break
Gargaj: It was worth a try... I like to have demos that run on my computer (don't we all?)...
added on the 2003-09-07 18:48:01 by crusader crusader
P4 2.53 RadPro 9800 128Mb Catalyst 3.7 Agp 4x FastWrites off

Test1: 60fps
Test2: 5.1fps
Test3: 5.1fps

All Visually Ok, no crashes.

no tweaking done on card yet, it's just installed. :)
added on the 2003-09-08 02:15:49 by Acheron Acheron
Yep, I get about the same results as others.
added on the 2003-09-09 21:51:49 by legalize legalize
XP-SP1, DX9.0b, 2000+, 9600Pro 128MB

same as above except that:

test1 : 100+ with catalyst 3.6, 60 (+BSOD at exit)with catalyst 3.7


and Legomania gives an error at exit but who really cares ? ;)


added on the 2003-09-10 03:05:37 by Zest Zest
mmm silly me, the fps difference must be due to FSAA...
added on the 2003-09-10 03:10:48 by Zest Zest
Ironically, I DO get glow on the object where/when it appears in Legomania.
added on the 2003-09-10 06:13:59 by crusader crusader
Catalyst 3.6 / Radeon 9000 Pro

Everything runs as intended

test 1: ~112fps
test 2: ~5fps
test 3: ~5fps

interestingly enough, the latter two run at ~9 fps in windowed mode.
added on the 2003-09-10 11:15:07 by Shifter Shifter
So, should we take this as a proof that Radeon cannot render to texture at acceptable speed or what?

Bad. Very bad.
I don't think there's an effect you couldn't do with it yet it's always portable (no modern pixel/fragment shit required) and ATI fails to recognize this. If this is so then death to the fucking morons.
added on the 2003-09-10 14:43:29 by 216 216

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