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Enemy Territory performance with the 5770

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I still actively play Wolfenstein Enemy Territory on a regular basis, but notice that my frame rate isn't all that great. The game is pretty old, and the Sapphire 5770 should handle it easily, but I have watched the FPS counter go down into the 40s from 90. I play with screen at 1680x1050, but didn't notice any performance boost at 1024x768, or any other resolution. I am on Catalyst Version 2011.1012.1625.27603, currently. However, I used 9-11_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu for a long time, and tried the newer driver to see if the performance increased. The latest driver corrupts my fonts in Thunderbird, so I can't use it. Unfortunately changing the drivers did not help.

The AA, filtering, etc. settings are on, or close to, performance. I set it high enough to take the staircase bumps out of the roofs. Enemy Territory has the shadows off, but the lighting is set for quality. V-Synch is off. Tweaking the game settings/textures/particles/lighting doesn't have much effect, which leads me to believe it may be the video card. Does anyone know if these numbers are correct, or should the frame rate be a lot higher. I noticed if I force set the frame rate at 43 fps, the game gets really choppy. Any suggestions on getting better OpenGL performance out of the 5770?

Here are my system specs:
Component Details Subscore Base score
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) 9350e Quad-Core Processor 6.8
Determined by lowest subscore 5.9

Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 7.2
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series 7.4
Gaming graphics 2815 MB Total available graphics memory 7.4
Primary hard disk 468GB Free (596GB Total) 5.9
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

System
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Manufacturer System manufacturer
Model System Product Name
Total amount of system memory 4.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 4

Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 596 GB
Disk partition (C:) 468 GB Free (596 GB Total)
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drives in RAID 1 mirror.
Media drive (F:) CD/DVD

Graphics
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Display adapter type ATI Radeon HD 5770 Series
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5770 1 GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0
Total available graphics memory 2815 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 1024 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 1791 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.902.0.0
Primary monitor resolution 1680x1050
DirectX version DirectX 10

Network
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Network Adapter NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet

Internet
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768kbps/128kbps DSL

Motherboard
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Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe

RAM
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OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

SOUND
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Creative 70SB073A00000 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
 
Hey, I too play ET and those numbers are pretty bad. Something isn't right. I can pull much higher FPS on my GTX260. Are you using a custom cfg?
 
What's your average FPS? minimum FPS of 40 is not bad at all, and seems about right. I used to have a HD5770 in my PC and it ran CODMW3 at a resolution of 1920x1080 with an average FPS of 70 and with a minimum FPS of 35 more or less.

If anything, your AMD Phenom 9350e CPU is the bottleneck. I had my Intel i5-750 @ 3.8GHz WEI score of 7.5 paired with the HD5770 to get my FPS average of 70 for CODMW3. If you can, try overclocking your CPU, that may help ...
 
have you tried to force the game to use 1 core ? this game was out before dualcore was a thing. it played great on a amdxp system with a GF3.
 
In 2001-2002 (ET development years) multi-threaded programming wasn't widely adopted.

Frequency is important in q3-engine games. I had an AMD Athlon 4000+ single core clocked to 3.2GHz if I remember right, and I was able to get 300+ fps in RTCW on my 19" 1280x1024 with a 7800gtx if I stared at the ground lol.
 
@BIWMirage: I have custom key mappings, but no graphics related config files. On the shortcut I do have "C:\Program Files (x86)\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\ET.exe" +set com_hunkMegs "768" +set com_soundMegs "192" +set com_zoneMegs "128" +connect et.pxclan.org on the short cut.

@Runt: The average FPS is 90 with the /com_maxfps at the default of 85. Going in the water on Seawall Battery drops the FPS down in the 40s.

@gesicht: How do you force the game to use a single core? Is that done on the shortcut? I play full screen, and not windowed.

I have been considering a swap to a nVidia-based card to see if that helps. I vaguely remember running one of the demos that came with the 5770, and saw it chugging in some of the scenes.
 
Honestly dude, grab someone's cfg and use that. You can get different cfgs but generally they turn the graphics way down. You will get godly fps and it will make it easier to see everything. If you play competitively at all, everyone else is using custom cfgs and you will just get destroyed if you don't too. If you want I can help you out with it and get you set up. No reason for you not to get 333 fps if you want to.
 
BIWMirage said:
Honestly dude, grab someone's cfg and use that. You can get different cfgs but generally they turn the graphics way down. You will get godly fps and it will make it easier to see everything. If you play competitively at all, everyone else is using custom cfgs and you will just get destroyed if you don't too. If you want I can help you out with it and get you set up. No reason for you not to get 333 fps if you want to.
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If you have a config, I would like to try it out. Thanks for the assist.
 
No prob man. Here is a link to tons of cfgs. Find one that you like the look of and has a lot of downloads. Most of these are from really good players so they will be good quality. If you need help modifying them for your controls, send me a PM. It will take a bit of time to get used to but I promise you will love it later. http://www.gamersfiles.net/files/4-ET+Configs
 
I forgot to ask: how do you reset the video settings/configs back to the default to erase any custom config from the profile?
 
you should be able to just delete the cfg file and it should write a new one set at default..

key word "should" but it doesn't always work right.


hierovision said:
In 2001-2002 (ET development years) multi-threaded programming wasn't widely adopted.

Frequency is important in q3-engine games. I had an AMD Athlon 4000+ single core clocked to 3.2GHz if I remember right, and I was able to get 300+ fps in RTCW on my 19" 1280x1024 with a 7800gtx if I stared at the ground lol.
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thats because outside of dual socket P2's and P3's there was no multithreading on the consumer side in 2001/2002.
 
Just restart ET is what I would do. Don't name the cfg autoexec.cfg and just exec it when you want it.
 
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