Radeon HD3xxx - too slow

[Drakon Rider]

i try to update video card and try to move from Radeon X600Pro to Radeon HD3850... after drivers setup i found i get only about 10..40 fps in Drakan:OOTF ... no settings change or Catalist drivers swapping helps in a several hours... later i visit another person with HD3600 card and he tries Drakan too - same problem...

looks like a bug in HD3xxx hardware or in Catalist drivers... so i change to NVIDIA 9600GT - now it is all ok running with about 100+ fps in 1920x1200 with most aa and af settings on...

[Arokhs Twin]

I have used Nvidia cards for the past few years and as a matter of interest I can only manage around 50fps max on a 7600GT with a P4 3.4Ghz CPU. Can't suggest anything other than buggy drivers. Strange why I can't get 100fps on my card though...

[Drakon Rider]

really strange - as i remember i got 120 fps (in Drakan.exe +fpstest tesmode) after upgrade to iP4 630 (3GHz old HT core - no any chance to overclock) and cheap enough Radeon 128 bit X600Pro card... ofcourse without AA on and in about 1152x864 resolution...

now i have overclocked cheap Pentium Dual Core E2180 (from 2 to 3 GHz) - and the Drakan runs fine with much higher than 100 fps (ofourse after moving to NVIDIA card i get that crash in entering New Game before difficulty level selection but it do not bugs me alot)...

[Arokhs Twin]

I need to get a new system as mine is 4 years old now; it took me ages to find an AGP 7600GT. Probably something for the new year...
As for the crash, there is a fix for the crash at game start up. It works on my system but I haven't heard if it has been successful on others.

[Drakon Rider]

also read at some forums about the same low-fps bug with ATI HD series cards... i think you can add it in the faq if exist...

[Faerith]

I gave up on Radeon cards after that 9550se I had.. All the nvidia cards I have seem to work well

[bodfan]

I played Drakan months ago but since it is still in my computer and finding this topic interesting, I inserted the CD and looked at the fps. Before I show you the number, I must tell you that I am not joking or trying to show off and I am also surprised at the number. It shows 48xx fps. The first two digits are constant, the last two digits are variable.
I looked at the fps at two different places in the first chapter.

Here are the specs:

AMD phenom 4X HD 955, 3.2 ghz
8 gig RAM
radeon HD 4870 X2 1 gig each.
hard disk 10,000rpm.
windows XP pro 64-bit.

BTW, I got around 60-80 fps with Gothic 3, between 80-120 with S.T.A.L.K.E.R., 60 fps with Oblivion, 75 with Vampire-bloodlines and 500-700 with Far Cry.

[Faerith]

Whrr.. that's odd.. I run a Radeon HD 3450 on my windows xp computer, it plays it around 100fps

The only problem is with my computers, for some really quite annoying reason I can't actually run the game above 1024x786 or it just crashes to desktop, which is quite annoying.
But eh i'm not complaining, I can actually play multiplayer flawlessly

My newer computer runs a Radeon HD 5700/5750 with no slowdown


.. also I see above, I posed that I gave up on radeon cards.. oops XD well the HD series seem to work for me now ^^;