Drivers = BYOND Slowdown?

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Aug 21 2007, 6:51 am
I have a problem here. I just installed an ATI Radeon X1300/X1500 driver. It works fine, but BYOND is very slow (and hogs 75% of the CPU compared to the 5% without the driver)

I'm not using OpenGL (Hell, yesterday I actually MANAGED to get OpenGL working with BYOND... but now I got the driver, it don't) and I'm looking for ways to speed up BYOND, while trying to get back my 2 hours of OpenGL glory, while in 16 bit mode trying to give BYOND maximum performance (You can tell it didn't work, when you look at how it should)

Any ideas? The rest of the computer runs fine 32 bit and 16.
Aug 21 2007, 7:40 am
RedlineM203 wrote:
I have a problem here. I just installed an ATI Radeon X1300/X1500 driver. It works fine, but BYOND is very slow (and hogs 75% of the CPU compared to the 5% without the driver)

I'm not using OpenGL (Hell, yesterday I actually MANAGED to get OpenGL working with BYOND... but now I got the driver, it don't) and I'm looking for ways to speed up BYOND, while trying to get back my 2 hours of OpenGL glory, while in 16 bit mode trying to give BYOND maximum performance (You can tell it didn't work, when you look at how it should)

Any ideas? The rest of the computer runs fine 32 bit and 16.

The next version (coming out today) uses DirectX, which should be more compatible.
Aug 21 2007, 7:52 am (Edited on Aug 21 2007, 8:43 am)
In response to Tom
Tom wrote:
RedlineM203 wrote:
I have a problem here. I just installed an ATI Radeon X1300/X1500 driver. It works fine, but BYOND is very slow (and hogs 75% of the CPU compared to the 5% without the driver)

I'm not using OpenGL (Hell, yesterday I actually MANAGED to get OpenGL working with BYOND... but now I got the driver, it don't) and I'm looking for ways to speed up BYOND, while trying to get back my 2 hours of OpenGL glory, while in 16 bit mode trying to give BYOND maximum performance (You can tell it didn't work, when you look at how it should)

Any ideas? The rest of the computer runs fine 32 bit and 16.

The next version (coming out today) uses DirectX, which should be more compatible.

Wow, perfect timing. Nice one.

EDIT: Is it weird that I can always get the release dates of new versions out of Tom since 4.0 was coming?
Aug 21 2007, 10:18 am
In response to RedlineM203
RedlineM203 wrote:
Tom wrote:
RedlineM203 wrote:
I have a problem here. I just installed an ATI Radeon X1300/X1500 driver. It works fine, but BYOND is very slow (and hogs 75% of the CPU compared to the 5% without the driver)

I'm not using OpenGL (Hell, yesterday I actually MANAGED to get OpenGL working with BYOND... but now I got the driver, it don't) and I'm looking for ways to speed up BYOND, while trying to get back my 2 hours of OpenGL glory, while in 16 bit mode trying to give BYOND maximum performance (You can tell it didn't work, when you look at how it should)

Any ideas? The rest of the computer runs fine 32 bit and 16.

The next version (coming out today) uses DirectX, which should be more compatible.

Wow, perfect timing. Nice one.

EDIT: Is it weird that I can always get the release dates of new versions out of Tom since 4.0 was coming?

Feel free to grab the current build 956 at http://tom.byondhome.com/public/
We'll be doing an official release later today.
Aug 21 2007, 10:26 am
In response to Tom
Oookay.. that is kinda pushing it... unless you want to give me BYOND membership too. :D
Aug 21 2007, 12:58 pm
In response to Tom
Tom wrote:
RedlineM203 wrote:
I have a problem here. I just installed an ATI Radeon X1300/X1500 driver. It works fine, but BYOND is very slow (and hogs 75% of the CPU compared to the 5% without the driver)

I'm not using OpenGL (Hell, yesterday I actually MANAGED to get OpenGL working with BYOND... but now I got the driver, it don't) and I'm looking for ways to speed up BYOND, while trying to get back my 2 hours of OpenGL glory, while in 16 bit mode trying to give BYOND maximum performance (You can tell it didn't work, when you look at how it should)

Any ideas? The rest of the computer runs fine 32 bit and 16.

The next version (coming out today) uses DirectX, which should be more compatible.

Wait, does that mean the Linux version is discontinued? And I was about to change to linux.
Aug 21 2007, 1:48 pm
RedlineM203 wrote:
I have a problem here. I just installed an ATI Radeon X1300/X1500 driver. It works fine, but BYOND is very slow (and hogs 75% of the CPU compared to the 5% without the driver)

BYOND in general, or just dream seeker in certain games?
Aug 21 2007, 4:26 pm
In response to Tom
Are you going to be not-supporting OpenGL as much anymore, or will the DX and OpenGL paths be updated in parallel?
Aug 21 2007, 4:31 pm
In response to Shlaklava
Shlaklava wrote:
Wait, does that mean the Linux version is discontinued? And I was about to change to linux.

As much as I hate to say it, I wouldn't have expected a good-looking Linux version in the next few years, even with OpenGL. OpenGL was one step towards it, but the custom interfaces were five steps back from it.
Aug 21 2007, 4:31 pm
In response to Shlaklava
The Linux version doesn't use either. It's text-only.
Aug 22 2007, 1:16 am
In response to Jon88
Jon88 wrote:
RedlineM203 wrote:
I have a problem here. I just installed an ATI Radeon X1300/X1500 driver. It works fine, but BYOND is very slow (and hogs 75% of the CPU compared to the 5% without the driver)

BYOND in general, or just dream seeker in certain games?

Dream Seeker in any game. Don't worry, its over now.