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Thanks for the replies. I changed to the Catalyst 4.7 drivers, and got a 
slight frame rate increase. I can run the demo at 29 fps - the problem was 
that I needed to go into the console and start the demo immediately after 
starting the game. Previously, I was trying the run the demo with a previous 
level already loaded - and the system didn't like it.

BTW - I prefer to stick to 1280 * 1024 resolution because that matches my 
LCD monitor. Trying to run at a lower resolution simply introduces artefacts 
as it scales a low res picture up to match the pixels on the LCD screen.

Next problem - the game runs well for about half an hour or so, and then 
slows right down (big pause when you enter a new frame, jerkovision even 
thought the reported frame rate stays high etc.). Its easy to fix, I just 
need to quit from the game, re-start it and go again for the next half-hour. 
Suspect a memory leak, which causes this problem when the program has 
snaffled all of the free memory - anyone else come across this, or have a 
fix.



"Bob Huntley" <bob.huntley.NOSPAM@btinternet.com> wrote in message 
news:cfnvvj$dp1$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
>I have a ATI X800 Pro graphics card, a 3.06 GHz P4 and 1 Gig of RAM - and 
>without any attempt yet to optimise things can get 30 fps when running at 
>1280 x 1024 resolution (at least in the first parts of the game). I'm using 
>the drivers that came with the card (Version 6.14.10.xxx)
>
> Out of curiosity, I tried the console command "timedemo demo1 usecache", 
> and got a abysmally slow frame rate (I got fed up & interrupted if after a 
> minute or so - and the reported speed was 0.8 FPS).
>
> Can anyone explain the difference between this speed and the real world 
> speed above (which seems more appropriate to my hardware). Have I got a 
> latent problem which will slow things down later when things become 
> "busy" - would welcome any comments/advice.
>
>
> -- 
> Bob Huntley
>