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[Diablos]

It sure does on mine. Using an Athlon XP 2400+, 9800 Pro and a gig of dual channel memory. This game is choppy as hell and you can't control the detail. It's the demo.

But the thing is... games like Painkiller look ten times better than this game and they run silky smooth.

 

[golem]

they definitely need better coders at Ion Storm or something (er if they still exist that is)... the game runs OK on my system however (P4 3.0, 9800Pro, 1gb dual as well @ 1024 no AA bloom on). Not choppy at all.

 

[dark10x]

Runs OK for me. Certainly not perfect, but you get 60 fps here and there with a dash of ~40 fps. It rarely drops below 30 fps, thankfully.

Comparing it to Painkiller doesn't make any sense, though. Painkiller wasn't loaded with perpixel effects and didn't feature a unified lighting model. Those aspects are quite demanding...

 

[ravingloon]

If you look around, I'm pretty sure there are some drivers that flat out sucked with this game.

 

[Oni Jazar]

It sure does on mine. Using an Athlon XP 2400+, 9800 Pro and a gig of dual channel memory. This game is choppy as hell and you can't control the detail. It's the demo.

But the thing is... games like Painkiller look ten times better than this game and they run silky smooth.

diablos you should be getting great performance on your system. Make sure to use the Catalyst 4.4 drivers and maybe put the res at 1024x768

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

what if i have the 4.7s?


and yeah the game ran like kinda poo on my xp 3000 gig of pc3200 and 9800 pro


when i tried the demo

 

[Bluemercury]

it was the same with Deus ex2, maybe they should leave the xbox ports for second place..........

 

[dark10x]

what if i have the 4.7s?


and yeah the game ran like kinda poo on my xp 3000 gig of pc3200 and 9800 pro


when i tried the demo

Nope. It only works with the 4.4 Cats. That's what the game was mainly tested with, and ATI broke Thief support in 4.5 and above. I wish they would address that issue...

The game RUNS on 4.7s, but the shadows don't display properly.

 

[tedtropy]

That's what happens when you center development around a console with PC hardware that's been last-gen a couple of gens ago.

 

[Dagless M.D.]

Nope. It only works with the 4.4 Cats. That's what the game was mainly tested with, and ATI broke Thief support in 4.5 and above. I wish they would address that issue...

The game RUNS on 4.7s, but the shadows don't display properly.

Thats odd, i'm running 4.7s and getting no problem on the theif demo, looks fine to me.

 

[ravingloon]

ATI and XBOX ports do seem to have real issues with Catalyst drivers (KOTOR went downhill after 4.2 and has varying degrees of crapitude for the last 3 or 4 releases). So if 4.4 is the only "good" driver, that wouldn't shock me (Given my recent experience with Kotor and having to settle with 4.2). But the demo does have v-sync enabled by default I think. You could try that. I ran the demo on either 4.5 or 4.6 and it was very smooth and I have very similiar specs.

 

[Mrbob]

The shadow problem is going to be fixed with the 4.8 drivers. I'm holding out before buying the game.

The demo runs pretty well for me.

 

[TekunoRobby]

The Ion Storm programmers eat shit, there is nothing else too it.

Check out the Through the Looking Glass Forums for any help and a ton of optimizations for the game. I highly reccomend checking out John P.'s Texture sets as well in order to provide some much needed tweaks and texture upgrades.