Greetings again,
Well, I think I have discovered part of the problem. It would seem that a setting for my video cards alpha-blending slowed it down quite a bit. The setting was "error diffusion dithering". Something other AiW Radeons users might want to take note of.
This reduced the strange slowdowns i was getting on menus, but I still had problems with the simplest of spells in game. On a lark, I tried DX6 plug-in even though i have DX8 installed, and was suprised to see a gain of about 10 or so fps.
Then I enabled full screen flipping, and reduced the resolution to 1280X1024, and I was able to achieve full frames with 4X FSAA on.
Also, I wanted to apologize for my previous post. I have a tendancy to wax poetic without cause sometimes.
Still I would very much like to hear any ideas about my odd problem with openGL...is it due to the plug-in? Has anyone else ever had this problem, with this or previous versions of petes OpenGL?
I would appreciate any and all responses.
Thanks,
TastEPlasma
Well, I think I have discovered part of the problem. It would seem that a setting for my video cards alpha-blending slowed it down quite a bit. The setting was "error diffusion dithering". Something other AiW Radeons users might want to take note of.
This reduced the strange slowdowns i was getting on menus, but I still had problems with the simplest of spells in game. On a lark, I tried DX6 plug-in even though i have DX8 installed, and was suprised to see a gain of about 10 or so fps.
Then I enabled full screen flipping, and reduced the resolution to 1280X1024, and I was able to achieve full frames with 4X FSAA on.
Also, I wanted to apologize for my previous post. I have a tendancy to wax poetic without cause sometimes.
Still I would very much like to hear any ideas about my odd problem with openGL...is it due to the plug-in? Has anyone else ever had this problem, with this or previous versions of petes OpenGL?
I would appreciate any and all responses.
Thanks,
TastEPlasma