^ The FPS Boost Guide for ATI Video Cards

This Guide is tested and works great with all Radeon 9x00 Series and x800 xx Video Cards. Dependent on your System Configuration and you Hardware, you become a 30%-45% FPS boost on your machine. The following settings have been improvement for Direct 3D and OpenGL.

Nice to know: nVidia works better for OpenGL and ATI better with Direct 3D. This is the little different.

Okay, let's start.

Preparation

Before starting any installations, download the DirectX Enduser June 2006 for English Operation Systems and install.

You need the latest version of Microsoft .NET Framework, too.

The first step is, to delete all of ATI in your Software Service, ATI Uninstall at last.

- You can find it on START -> Control Panel -> Software

- Reboot your Machine!

- Next step is to delete all ATI Folders in "C:" and "C:\Program Files"

- Then run RegClean.exe to delete unneeded entries in your Regedit.

- Reboot your Machine!

- Download Driver Cleaner Professional and delete all ATI categories. This will delete all files of ATI from your HDD. Be very careful by using this Tool. Do not choose ATI wdm or wdv on multiselection.

- Reboot your Machine!

 Installation

- Download the Omega 2597a Driver.

- Install the Omega Driver without any Catalyst Drivers, Uncheck "MultiRes" and cancel "RadLinker" on Installprogress.

- Hit "Continue" on WHQL Certification questions and hit "Yes" for Overwriting old Files.

- Reboot your Machine!

- Download and Install the Ray Adams ATI Tray Tools. Run the Program after installation.

- Done!

 Configuration

Run the Program and perform the following steps.

OpenGL:
 
OpenGL:
Antialiasing: Application Controlled
Anisotropic Filtering: Application Controlled
Texture Preference: Performance
MipMap Detail Level: Performance
Wait for Vertical Sync: Always Off
TRUFORM: Always Off
Refresh Rate Override: Choose Custom or Desktop
Click on Settings to check if your seetings are right.

- Use Colors and Displayto set your Gamma Value.
- Use Refresh Lock to add Resolutions and Bit Color Dept. for Game Resolutions.

Big yellow FPS Display on Screen?
Just disable ODC Display in ATT/Tools.

Open with right click on symbol

Direct 3D:

Perform the same settings of OpenGL.

Extra: Go to Direct3D - Optimizations - and enable both (Picture) It is important to set the OpenGl settings before!
- You can test more performance for Direct3D Games with "Flip Queue Size (default: Disable/3)
- Test other Numbers and start with "1" - "2" and use the one for your best Performance.
- Test Catalyst A.I. with "Low" or "Off"

You are done.

Actually Records:
All Records on de_dust2 CT Respawn.

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro: 10 CT Player Models (cl_minmodels 0) and 1 Smoke on 32 Bit - 100 FPS

ATI x800xt : 10 CT Player Models (cl_minmodels 0) and 4 Smokes on 32 Bit - 100 FPS

CPU: AMD Sempron 3000+ and Athlon XP 3000+

RAM: 512 DDR RAM 400 and 1 GB DDR RAM 400

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