FEAR runs crappy, Quake runs fine

I just started playing FEAR and it runs like soup through a fine-toothed
comb. Does anyone have any ideas? I have played around with the settings. It
looks butt ugly on "low" and runs choppy on "medium." The thing is, Quake 4
runs perfectly fine. I have an ATI X800 and 512RAM running on an AMD 64
2.4GHZ system. I also have the latest FEAR patch. I tried messing aroudn
with VM some as well; that didn't help.

In FEAR, at 800 x 600 with medium settings, there are tons of pauses and
stuttering, and nothing ever runs too smooth. But in low, at 640 x 480, all
the graphics look so low-res that the game is almost unplayable because I
can't hardly see anything clearly. I have Quake 4 set to about medium or a
little higher.

Oddly, I remember the demo running perfectly fine and the graphics looked
smooth and high-res. Any ideas?

Also, for some reason, both games do a performance check and put everything
pretty low, even though the X800 card shoudl be fast enough for at least
medium quality...

- JB

"JB" wrote in message
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I just started playing FEAR and it runs like soup through a fine-toothed
comb. Does anyone have any ideas? I have played around with the settings.
It looks butt ugly on "low" and runs choppy on "medium." The thing is,
Quake 4 runs perfectly fine. I have an ATI X800 and 512RAM running on an
AMD 64 2.4GHZ system. I also have the latest FEAR patch. I tried messing
aroudn with VM some as well; that didn't help.

In FEAR, at 800 x 600 with medium settings, there are tons of pauses and
stuttering, and nothing ever runs too smooth. But in low, at 640 x 480,
all the graphics look so low-res that the game is almost unplayable
because I can't hardly see anything clearly. I have Quake 4 set to about
medium or a little higher.

Oddly, I remember the demo running perfectly fine and the graphics looked
smooth and high-res. Any ideas?

Also, for some reason, both games do a performance check and put
everything pretty low, even though the X800 card shoudl be fast enough for
at least medium quality...

- JB

Do you have soft shadows turned on? This puts a severe performance hit on
all but top-line cards?

there is a problem with the ati drivers and FEAR. It does improve with 5.11
but should be completely resolved with 5.12


MadHewi
"JB" wrote in message
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I just started playing FEAR and it runs like soup through a fine-toothed
comb. Does anyone have any ideas? I have played around with the settings.
It looks butt ugly on "low" and runs choppy on "medium." The thing is,
Quake 4 runs perfectly fine. I have an ATI X800 and 512RAM running on an
AMD 64 2.4GHZ system. I also have the latest FEAR patch. I tried messing
aroudn with VM some as well; that didn't help.

In FEAR, at 800 x 600 with medium settings, there are tons of pauses and
stuttering, and nothing ever runs too smooth. But in low, at 640 x 480,
all the graphics look so low-res that the game is almost unplayable
because I can't hardly see anything clearly. I have Quake 4 set to about
medium or a little higher.

Oddly, I remember the demo running perfectly fine and the graphics looked
smooth and high-res. Any ideas?

Also, for some reason, both games do a performance check and put
everything pretty low, even though the X800 card shoudl be fast enough for
at least medium quality...

- JB

there is a problem with the ati drivers. I found using 5.11 the game ran
much better but I understand it should be resolved in releasee 5.12


Regards
MadHewi
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"JB" wrote in message
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I just started playing FEAR and it runs like soup through a fine-toothed
comb. Does anyone have any ideas? I have played around with the settings.
It looks butt ugly on "low" and runs choppy on "medium." The thing is,
Quake 4 runs perfectly fine. I have an ATI X800 and 512RAM running on an
AMD 64 2.4GHZ system. I also have the latest FEAR patch. I tried messing
aroudn with VM some as well; that didn't help.

In FEAR, at 800 x 600 with medium settings, there are tons of pauses and
stuttering, and nothing ever runs too smooth. But in low, at 640 x 480,
all the graphics look so low-res that the game is almost unplayable
because I can't hardly see anything clearly. I have Quake 4 set to about
medium or a little higher.

Oddly, I remember the demo running perfectly fine and the graphics looked
smooth and high-res. Any ideas?

Also, for some reason, both games do a performance check and put
everything pretty low, even though the X800 card shoudl be fast enough
for at least medium quality...

- JB

Do you have soft shadows turned on? This puts a severe performance hit on
all but top-line cards?

there is a problem with the ati drivers and FEAR. It does improve with 5.11
but I understand the main fix will be in 5.12

MadHewi
"JB" wrote in message
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I just started playing FEAR and it runs like soup through a fine-toothed
comb. Does anyone have any ideas? I have played around with the settings.
It looks butt ugly on "low" and runs choppy on "medium." The thing is,
Quake 4 runs perfectly fine. I have an ATI X800 and 512RAM running on an
AMD 64 2.4GHZ system. I also have the latest FEAR patch. I tried messing
aroudn with VM some as well; that didn't help.

In FEAR, at 800 x 600 with medium settings, there are tons of pauses and
stuttering, and nothing ever runs too smooth. But in low, at 640 x 480,
all the graphics look so low-res that the game is almost unplayable
because I can't hardly see anything clearly. I have Quake 4 set to about
medium or a little higher.

Oddly, I remember the demo running perfectly fine and the graphics looked
smooth and high-res. Any ideas?

Also, for some reason, both games do a performance check and put
everything pretty low, even though the X800 card shoudl be fast enough for
at least medium quality...

- JB

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I just started playing FEAR and it runs like soup through a
fine-toothed comb. Does anyone have any ideas? I have played around
with the settings. It looks butt ugly on "low" and runs choppy on
"medium." The thing is, Quake 4 runs perfectly fine. I have an ATI
X800 and 512RAM running on an AMD 64 2.4GHZ system. I also have the
latest FEAR patch. I tried messing aroudn with VM some as well; that
didn't help.

In FEAR, at 800 x 600 with medium settings, there are tons of pauses
and stuttering, and nothing ever runs too smooth. But in low, at 640 x
480, all the graphics look so low-res that the game is almost
unplayable because I can't hardly see anything clearly. I have Quake 4
set to about medium or a little higher.

Oddly, I remember the demo running perfectly fine and the graphics
looked smooth and high-res. Any ideas?

Also, for some reason, both games do a performance check and put
everything pretty low, even though the X800 card shoudl be fast enough
for at least medium quality...

This is going to sound crazy but try renaming the fear.exe file to
something else, and then create a new shortcut to run it. There is a bug in
the ATI driver that tries to optimize fear but does it completely wrong.


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Also, 512 MB of system memory doesn't cut it with today's games!

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Also, 512 MB of system memory doesn't cut it with today's games!

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just to confirm - rename the FEAR.exe to something else like SCARE.exe and
use that - it bypasses a bug in the drivers caused through catalystAI and
yeah - it does need more than 512mb of RAM. also some ppl have found
problems with the 1.2 patch so if the first 2 dont help reinstall and dont
patch until 1.3 comes out.

"just to confirm - rename the FEAR.exe to something else like SCARE.exe
and
use that - it bypasses a bug in the drivers caused through catalyst AI "

Yes that should sort it....I am running Radeon 9800 pro with FEAR at 1024 x
768 on HIGHEST settings and it seems at least as smooth as Quake 4 at same
Res...Your X800 should be better...
The lower Graphic settings are very much poorer..

Luv mouse
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just to confirm - rename the FEAR.exe to something else like SCARE.exe

Or

MOOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!.EXE