FF7 3d performance

[Marco]

I decided to upgrade to the newest release of DirectX and video drivers for my Radeon 9700 graphics card. Following this change FF7 took a deep dip in 3D performance, mainly during battles, 2D scenes still render like a rocket, while 3D battles renders like if I was running it through slowdown.

I've tried the DX uninstallation tool and reverting to the old drivers, but it is still the same.

1GB RAM, 2 GHZ, and windows XP with DX 9.0b and Catalyst drivers 3.2 and 3.6 (I've tried both)

[Aaron]

Are you using the 1.02 patch from Eidos?
Please make sure that you are able to select Direct3D Rendering instead of Software Rendering in the FF7 Config program.

[Marco]

I'm using that, in 3d mode with the overide in TNT mode, as I get slightly better performance with it. Not as good as I got before the update in software though.

[Aaron]

If you play the game in software rendering mode, is the performance still bad?

[Marco]

As I've wriiten before, the performance is slightly better in hardware mode, so it's still bad in software.

[Marco]

Opengl wrapper in software mode was the fastest.

Re-installed the OS because of instability, and now it's fast in software mode again. Too fast for me hehe. Looks like you can't have everything.

Don't want to use hardware because the textures look blurred, and the shadings blocky (in a rectangle way). The anti-aliasing is good though, but I can get that in software mode as well.

[Rubicant]

Anti-aliasing....in software!?

[Marco]

It was working before the reformat. No wonder performance was crap, something must have gone terribly wrong.

Reference rasteriser should be able to handle anti-aliasing anyway.

[Anonymous]

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[xeriouxi]

Hi!

I also had that problem when I installed DirectX 9. I used the driver rollback function, but to no avail. I think that when you use the rollback, it doesn't completely remove all DX9 traces. I had to re-format my PC for it to work. Blame it ALL on Microsoft!  

xeriouxi.