ATI Card tweak

Blown · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2002 10:01 pm Post subject:

I run a ATI Radeon DDR 64 and was messin with drivers and came across a setting someone recommended on a forum so I'm passing it along. If you installed the ATI fix there will be a line in your config.cfg that says ati_npatch "1.0". Change that value to "0". I gained between 20-30 fps just by doing that alone. BTW, if for some reason your running this card the 3276 driver works the best for me.

SpeCies · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2002 10:07 pm Post subject:

Well I have a ATI Fury installed using that patch. I wonder if that is the answer to my problem. Thanks.

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AFI · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2002 11:53 pm Post subject:

I also use an ATI ... so what exactly does this do by setting it to 0? Where do I set it at? and will it affect anything else?

Blown · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 2:44 am Post subject:

I havent noticed a thing at all except for the gain in FPS. You find the file in your halflife/tfc folder. File name is config.cfg

Not sure what it does but it definitely helps and doesnt seem to hurt anything.

Bada Bing · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 11:03 am Post subject:

I'll try it tonight. I have a ragepro

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AFI · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 10:29 pm Post subject:

how do I open the config file?
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[ This Message was edited by: AFI on 2002-02-22 22:30 ]

AFI · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2002 12:27 am Post subject:

I just wanted to bring this back up because blown never responded: How do I edit the config file? Ive found it, but when i double click it, it asks what i want to open it with...???

Blown · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2002 1:09 am Post subject:

sorry..open it with notepad

Blown · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2002 11:05 am Post subject:

Did this help anyone else? Maybe post your before and after fps if it did help. I'm thinking it might just improve it by a percentage over what you old FPS was.

Bada Bing · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2002 12:28 pm Post subject:

I'm using an old rageproII and it doesn't seem to help. Thanks anyway.

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PeNgUiN · Registered User Joined: 23 Feb 2002 Posts: 10

DUDE!!! THATS AWESOME! i gained 40 frames. was running around 5-7 and now i am running 50! Thanks!

Guest · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 12:31 pm Post subject:

32 meg gforce 2

ProudWhiteTrash · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 5:30 pm Post subject:

wooohooo. I installed win2k last night and running in openGL it looked like crap. I changed this setting and boom looks deadly. thanks

AFI · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2002 12:34 am Post subject:

I did it...I don't really notice a difference