ATI vid cards and Brink.

(legend123) #1

Please guys do what it takes to fix the fps problem with Brink and ATI vid cards.
I have been on many forums and also in game and there are hundreds if not thousands of people with the low fps issues.

I have played SDs previous titles with GForce cards and had no problems.
My friend has an 8800 and plays Brink just fine.

I have a 5770 and have quite large fps issues.

Afaik I think the problem is with OpenGL.
SD please do whatever it takes to improve this (team up with ATI, find the problems ,etc).

I am sure many people will be thankful for any fix.

Sorry if this has been posted before.

(DarkangelUK) #2

They know about it, the issue has been very clearly highlighted to them, and they are working on it. I’m guessing they’ll be doing their best to get the fix in place for the game going live in the EU tomorrow.

(Skunkee) #3

I have the 5770 also and I don’t experience lag too often.

(Aalatar) #4

6950, and it’s pretty bad for me.

(Togan008) #5

Yeah I’m having problems with my FPS… getting around 7-10 on my 5850

To Splash Damage: Guys I know you’re working on some fix, but seriously in this day and age, where the competition is breathing down every developers neck, releasing unfinished / bugged games is well… not professional to say the least. Did your testers play the game on Nvidia only ?!

(Siddvicious) #6

Aalatar I also have a 6950, make sure to uninstall drivers and install 11.3 drivers. Also make sure you use r_shadows 0 in console. This fixed it for me and a few other users when I posted this a few hours ago.

(Übiquitous) #7

hey im running dual 6950’s (not that it matters in brink as it currently lacks xfire support) I found that disabling HBAO(IE. Ambient occlusions) really increased my fps I wen’t from 15 which was unplayable to 50 which is very smooth might not work for everyone as I believe 4 and 5 series cards have issues with brink that go far beyond changing an un optimized option or two but still worth a try.

(Macky) #8

Do you notice any difference when you use AO vs when you disable AO? I can’t seem to find any difference. In any case disabling AO should give you a performance boost if you have it on.

(jaydawg) #9

I was thinking of upgrading from my 2 4850s to a 6950 but looks like you guys are having issues too, not to say I wont upgrade soon though. Hope they get something done soon.

(castroboy) #10

I tested a few different drivers and noticed that:

Using old 10.3 Catalyst drivers results in extremely bad performance: 5-15fps. It just overall runs bad. Menus and movies run quite well though. Very bad gameplay experience.

Using 11.5a “Brink Hotfix” (lol) drivers results in completely unplayable game: ~0-3fps. With these drivers, Brink process eats 100% cpu usage even in character selection screen, which makes everything hang and stutter. Just standing alone in spawn and trying to look around is extremely choppy. Impossible to play solo or multi.

Uninstalling everything ATI related, running Driver Cleaner in safe mode, and installing Catalyst 11.3 made the game almost “playable” for me ~20-40fps

Disabling shadows or adjusting other visual effects has no noticeable effect on performance. Enabling triple buffering in Catalyst options seems to help a little bit.

(pga) #11

Yea. I have a xfx radeon hd5970 black edition and got ingame min 30 - max 70 fps depends on the situation!

(abnorm) #12

I notice when no opponent is on our match server I got much more FPS around 80
(Sapphire Radeon HD 5830). Also on the parkour level I got proper FPS.
When the oppenent joins the FPS drops really bad ( 17 - max 30 FPS) outdoor.

Hope for a fix soon.

(system) #13

Can we please stop having new threads about the ATi problem on a daily basis? This is messing up the forums. Please check for already existing threads on the problem and post there.