VERY poor ATI performances - what's the exact status on this matter?

(Cole80) #1

Title says it all.

I see threads regarding 4xxx in particular, or random bugs/crash in general but nothing relative to all ATI card’s poor performances specifically.

I know very well the issue is known to SD devs but i’d like to hear from them regarding what is causing these terrible multiplayer performances for ATI users and what is going to be done, in what kind of timefrime.

Thanks in advance for enlightening me, having a Quad @3.8, a 5870 and yet not be able to play Brink’s multiplayer is very frustrating…

(OursIsTheFury) #2

Good question.

I don’t usually get as far as an actual game. The bloody thing stops responding at will, even during character customization. Something is seriously screwed up with this game and ATI graphics cards (stating the obvious)

(Cole80) #3

Bump to page 1. New threads are poping like crazy and it would be really nice to have a word from devs regarding whats going on with ATI’s cards.

(Warruz) #4

Il toss in mine, Grids are gone and thats great now its just performance and i can enjoy this game.

4870 btw

(Ricaz) #5

I still have 30-60 fps in MP with my HD5870.

Would REALLY love some damn answers soon.

(hailey) #6

All they did was disable shadows on ATI cards lol

Go play the game and type r_shadows 1 and 0, for me there is no difference.

That’s the only reason theres any fps boost in this patch and of course the same fps drops because all the other effects are still horrible on ATI

Sigh :frowning:

(Ricaz) #7

They disabled shadows? Holy ****, they’re really getting desperate.
I wonder if they will ever fix this.

(hailey) #8

Well I checked again and shadows are working again so maybe it was just me. I was just playing and toggling between 1 and 0 and it looked identical.

Either way game still runs like crap :frowning:

(Toner) #9

Still getting ~ 10fps in-game even after this update; have tried different driver versions all the way up to 11.5a and turned off things like shadows & ambient occlusion, but nothing seems to make it better =/

ATI Radeon HD 6850
AMD Phenom II X4 965
4GB RAM
Windows 7

(de5gravity) #10

I have a 5870, tried the latest driver with the 11.5a hotfix, the solo offline is now playable but nowhere near normal smooth gameplay.

I heard on the steam forum to try to retrograde to 11.2, I tried it but it made it worse for me even tho it made it better for other 5870 users.

Seriously how can they miss something like this, do they not test the game at all? It seems to be happening to a lot of people.

(Ricaz) #11

This is a serious problem, so I don’t see why they don’t make a sticky giving at least some info on this situation.

(Ricaz) #12

Right now I’m running around 60 fps with 10.10 drivers and fps cfg. It still drops to 30 frequently.
HD5870. I shoiuld be going stable 125 according to system specs, amiright?

(de5gravity) #13

I don’t even have 30 fps!

(XxburgerkxX) #14

o.o wow 125 fps!!! i want to wish i could get above 10 fps >.> … sigh another day of offline brink for me :rolleyes:

(hailey) #15

I get anywhere from 15-60 fps Game stutters like mad, it’s just not playable period

I’m glad grid is gone but grid didn’t completely stop me from playing, the performance does so far as I am concerned nothing has changed.

(de5gravity) #16

I wanted to add a small precision: i don’t even get 30 fps on OFFLINE SOLO

(Cole80) #17

As I said in OP I have a Quad Core @3.8 with a 5870 and was having TERRIBLE multiplayer performances.

Downgraded drivers from 11.5 to 11.3 and it’s making a HUGE difference. I mean, i’m pretty much getting normal performances now. That’s something you guys might want to try…

(de5gravity) #18

Someone said to try 11.2 and when i did, the game was worse, and he had a 5870. Are you guys just making this up? Not trying to be rude or anything, but i’m sick of reinstalling my drivers every other hour.

Were you able to play offline solo before the downgrade or was it laggy too?

(NoMotion) #19

Same here. No more grid, but still clunky as hell.

HD 4870

I think 11.2 has worked making my fps increase before they fixed the grid. I should try reinstalling that one

(Cole80) #20

[QUOTE=de5gravity;304120]Someone said to try 11.2 and when i did, the game was worse, and he had a 5870. Are you guys just making this up? Not trying to be rude or anything, but i’m sick of reinstalling my drivers every other hour.

Were you able to play offline solo before the downgrade or was it laggy too?[/QUOTE]

I was able to play solo with 11.5 drivers. It was alright. Multiplayer was totally unplayable.
Downgraded to 11.3, haven’t tried solo again yet but multiplayer is A LOT better. Like pretty much like it should be.

I didn’t randomly pick the 11.3, I had read here and there before that it helped some people with their performances. Haven’t read anything regarding 11.2

That’s all I can tell you, fwiw