R6 Slow Video Problems

[gunner13]

My System:
Power Mac 7300/180 upgraded w/Sonnet G3/400 card
640M Physical DDR Ram
ATI Radeon PCI Graphics Card
10K RPM, 4.9ms seek time, Seagate Cheeta 18G HD
Monitor set to 800x600, thousands of colors

The Problems:

1) When I first ran the Demo for R6 on this same machine (but with a VooDoo3 PCI Graphics Card), I had great frame rates at full screen 800x600. Now, with a ATI Radeon PCI Graphics Card, I must use the - key 4 times to make the action sreen move with enough speed to get things going. This makes it too small to see the action.

I have minimized the extensions and have (I think) the most current ATI and OpenGL drivers/mods.

Is there an ATI Radeon driver that I am missing that is causing the slow down? Can someone help me find it or help me figure this out? I would love to be able to play at full screen and full speed.

Thank you for any help.

Gunner13

[Toby]

I'll try and offer a few suggestions, although you may well already have tried these:

Firstly, I have a question: Did you really run RS at 800 x 600 on your Voodoo card? I thought it crashed at any settings above 640 x 480 on the voodoo...so I'm guessing you mean it was at 640 x 480...

Firstly, make sure music is off in options. Then try fidding around with the video options (Detail level, LOD Skip, MIP skip), taking it down a resolution notch - also (and this is important) deselect the record mission option: automatically making a replay always used to cause my machine to run slower. Other than that, it's hard to give more advice without knowing what system software you're running, but maybe there are some kernels of wisdom in here for you...

There was a recent ATI update (about siw weeks ago, I guess) but this didn't really cause any major improvements in speed.

Good luck

Toby

[Mr_Fooz]

This may sound like a stupid suggestion but maybe you could try it with the voodoo 3 card again.  I know it sucks, but if it's faster that's what counts.

Mr. Fooz