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Originally posted by Kraks
Good news and bad news.
good news is that I've fixed the situation and can now run EQ at 1600x1200 with 0 slow down whatsoever. It's great.
Bad news is that the problem seems to be DirectX 9. I have tested this with 3dmark03 and 3dmark2001. 2001 uses Directx 8 and 03 uses 9. With 8, I get 50 frames per second nearly constant at 1600x1200. With DirectX 9 I get 4 - 10 fps.
So, DirectX 9 + Mobile cards = problem atm it seems. |
There is a reason for that, and it's not because of DX9. The 5200 is a fucking pile of shit. Even for the FX series it's crap. To give you an idea of the utterly abysmal performance you can expect in dx9, the top of the line 5900 will run most random dx9 shaders you throw at it slower than a Radeon 9600. The 5600 is half the speed of th 5900 shaderwise, and the fucking 5200 would be a quarter the speed of the 5600.
Even the mobile 5600 is a pile of crap the Mobile 9600 manhandled. The 5200 may as well not even be a 3d card.
http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1866&p=9 would be a good example of the manhandling you can expect in a shader heavy dx9 game. Keep in mind the 5600 mobile is at least twice as fast as the 5200, so it would be worse. And if you want a real laugh, take a look at the HL2 benchmarks at 1280 where a GF4 outperformed every FX except maybe the 5900 when all cards were set to operate in dx8 mode.