Thursday, November 10th 2005
Secret "unoptimization" in F.E.A.R. for ATI users?
Here's a neat trick that has just sprung up. Users of any R520 based video card can rename their "FEAR.exe" to "anythingelse.exe" will see a marked improvement in the area of 10-15%.
EDIT: I've just confirmed that this will work for R4XX based cards. Tested it on my X700 and X850XT PE and saw improvements in the average of ~10 fps.
Source:
Beyond3D
EDIT: I've just confirmed that this will work for R4XX based cards. Tested it on my X700 and X850XT PE and saw improvements in the average of ~10 fps.
52 Comments on Secret "unoptimization" in F.E.A.R. for ATI users?
I have a nVidia Gayforce card.
nVidia pays a lot of money so the game publishers insert the "runs best on nVidia" logo. Obviously, that money does not go into overall better games. Why should a company pay for overall better games if it is mere chance the game is played on their hardware?
The money is paid -if everyone of us is lucky- solely into that silly logo, advertising. Spam, if you want. The game does not get cheaper if there are ads at its start displayed, right? So they force you to see advertising even if you buy a game. Like pay TV WITH ads.
That lot of money wasn't put under nVidia's CEO's pillow by the tooth fairy. No.
Ultimately, those people that buy nVidia products help fund that money that doesn't go into better hardware, but into ad-spam.
So we gamers are twice the fools. First, we pay for games but still get ads, second, we pay for the ads to be inserted into the game.
Some nVidia CEO must be laughing his ass off.
But I have to come back to my mentioning "if everyone of us is lucky".
I think we're not.
Why pay for ads, if you can boost your sales by funding a game company, too?
Let's assume company A pays a game publisher XY to make sure the approximately equal hardware of company B does not perform so well when playing XY's games.
Gamer magazines and websites will shout out "Company A products perform better! Buy A products!". And company A does not even have to put more money into research, but only a small amount of cash into the game industry. Those publishers are almost broke for a big part anyway, they do not have much choice.
Ironically, nVidia at the moment has the better, faster PCIe video cards. OK, not anymore in the AGP sector, but the GF7 series is pretty impressive and Ati is struggling to release contenders.
And returning much less profit. And less successful in the motherboard chipset market.
Still someone at nVidia must have deemed it necessary to play foul.
And deserves a kicking.
So, I bought a nVidia GPU, and a game that displays a big "Runs best on nVidia", I sure do expect that all
the moneymy money that nVidia pumped into that game publisher pays off by me getting more frames out of it than my peers. They are even running more expensive Ati cards. They even have nicer looking AntiAliasing, so it's only fair if nVidia lashes back at them! It's in my interest, even!(in case you do not note the irony, this was irony)
I am not proud to own a nVidia GF6800.
Here I am, running Microsoft WindowsXP, owning a GF6 video card, and my parents even have an Intel Coppermine in their PC.
Who am I to throw the first stone? I am deep within a glass house...
Does this improve performance at all for Nvidia cards? (Im guessing not...)
as I have is a file name FEAR????
where is the file located? I checked in the sierra file and it is not there???
Iam confused.....
hmm there is one file with a logo that reads: FEAR but no exe anywhere???
lol iam getting really crappy fps when i play this game i really hope I can do this trick...
card specs::laugh:
HIS X700 i-cooler
256Mb DDR
128 bit
6 vertex shaders
8 pixel pipelines
400mhz core
250mhz (500mhz) mem:eek:
(crappy card cant even overclock or else it will overheat extremely!):cry:
I will see if I notice any performence increase!!!
card specs::banghead:
HIS X700 i-cooler
256Mb DDR
128 bit
6 vertex shaders
8 pixel pipelines
400mhz core:ohwell:
250mhz (500mhz) mem:eek:
(crappy card cant even overclock or else it will overheat extremely!):cry:
My Computer/Tools(Tab)/Folder Options/Veiw(tab).....now look down u will see a folder symbol (their are two but it is the second Folder symbol down under it will be Many options "show hidden files and folders" "dont show hidden files and folders" ETC....the one u are looking for is "Hide extensions for known file types" uncheck this box and now u will see the extensions for your files ...EX: XXXX.exe XXXXX.jpg etc.
HIS X700 i-cooler
256Mb DDR
128 bit
6 vertex shaders
8 pixel pipelines
400mhz core
250mhz (500mhz) mem
My setup:
AMD Sempron 3000 @ 1.8ghz
ASUS K8N4-E
1GB DDR mem Single Channel
200 GB IDE 133
HIS X700 i cooler 256Mb DDR
it didnt really help.... iam still getting slow fps here are my cards specs.....
HIS X700 i-cooler
256Mb DDR
128 bit
6 vertex shaders
8 pixel pipelines
400mhz core
250mhz (500mhz) mem
My setup:
AMD Sempron 3000 @ 1.8ghz
ASUS K8N4-E
1GB DDR mem Single Channel
200 GB IDE 133
HIS X700 i cooler 256Mb DDR
medium quality set by default
medium detail
800X600 no antilizing or anything else everything set at default