LeRaldo

lol. no.

I'm 100% sure I do not have malfunctioning hardware.

Sorry for the late reply, wasn't getting an email notification that there were responses so I didn't think there were any heh. I've tried older drivers before. I started using my ATI card since the 3.6 Catalyst drivers I believe, maybe a little earlier, and I've had the problem all the way through the latest 5.7 drivers. I've tried the Omega ATI drivers (unofficial "tweaked" drivers) and this hasn't helped either. I have all the latest drivers for everything else in my system as well. Also, I still have the problem even on a clean install of Windows XP. Meaning, after reformatting, installing XP, and installing the necessary drivers (No applications or anything), Continuum still gives me these issues. I've also tried ending unnecessary processes (there aren't many running in the first place) but that doesn't help either. Anyways, I've ran the game on my friends system a few years ago (he had a 9800XT) and it appeared he had the same problem, so while there's no proof it has anything to do with ATI, I have a strong feeling that this problem exists, at least with the 9800 cards. SOS: yeah I better know the specs since I purchased it and built it hehe but yeah, I've turned vertical sync on and off, no help there. Also, in my personal opinion, nVidia > ATI only for subsapce haha, otherwise ATI > nVidia for any of the latest games

Tried it, just gives me (much) lower FPS.

As I had previously mentioned, "Avoid Page Flipping" is already checked. Having "No Framerate Limit" checked or unchecked does not stable my FPS, and it makes no difference wether it's on or off in this situation. And you're wrong, that rule doesn't apply to seeing things on a monitor screen.

Specs: Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2) CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.4C GHz (Overclocked to 3 GHz), 800MHz FSB, 512KB CACHE Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000-G Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 997DF 19" GPU: Sapphire ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB Memory: Corsair Value Select Dual Channel 1GB (2x512MB) PC-3200 (DDR400) HDD 1: Western Digital 37GB 10000RPM 8MB Buffer HDD 2: Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM 8MB Buffer HDD 3: Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM 2MB Buffer Connection: Comcast Cable 4.0Mbit/384Kbit ...and some other irrelevant stuff. The problem I am experiencing is low FPS in Continuum. The problem appears to be with the tiles. I get > 100 FPS with no tiles on screen, around 60-70 FPS with a small amount of tiles on screen, and 10-50 FPS with a normal ammount of tiles on screen. Example: Large safezones rape my FPS. I've tried quite a few things to increase my FPS, but not much has helped. I play at 1600x1200 resolution, at 70Hz refresh rate, 32bit color depth. Raising my resolution to 2048x1536 at 60Hz gives me the same exact FPS, as does lowering my resolution to 1280x1024 at 85Hz. When I start to lower my fps to 800x600 is when I start to see an actual increase in FPS. I've tried different color depths (16/8bit), neither increases FPS, and I've tried different refresh rates (for instance, 60Hz at 1600x1200, instead of 70Hz and so forth), no increase there either. I've unchecked everything in the "Graphics" tab of Options, no increase in FPS there either (but I still leave them unchecked cause it's easier to play without them) In Advanced Options, I have "Avoid Page Flipping" and "Disable Clipping" checked, and the others unchecked. This provides a small FPS increase. I've tried to force Tiles into system memory, but that gave no increase so I unchecked it. As for stuff unrelated to Continuum, I'm on the ATI Catalyst 5.7 drivers (latest), no other builds give me any noticable increase or decrease in FPS. I've tried the Omega drivers, no increase/decrease there either. I have the latest drivers for everything else in my system as well. On my old computer, I'm able to get 500 FPS @ 2048x1536 @ 60Hz and 32bit color depth. My old computer is a 1.3GHz Gateway, with 256MB RDRAM on a 5400RPM 20GB HDD, with an nVidia GeForce 3 Ti200 64MB card. With that said, I'm going to take a guess here and say that nVidia graphics cards run Continuum better than ATI cards do, lol. I've been through multiple formats and what-not, game still runs the same. Game runs the same for me on a clean XP install as it does on SP1 and SP2. Any help would be appreciated EDIT: I forgot to mention, I'm not really trying to get 100+ FPS or anything, I just want to have at least a solid FPS equal to my refresh rate (which would be 70, at 1600x1200)