20fps ... please help

[Guts]

current specs:
Windows 10
5950x cpu
6900xt nitro + sapphire edition
64gb of ram

Running RoF2 EQ

My issue is that when i log into the game my fps is total crap. 20fps while looking down in first person but when looking straight ahead im at 5 or less fps.

I've set affinity to 0 CPU only
I've set priority to high
I've changed the compatibility mode between XP / 7 / Vista

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

[Guts]

Downloading VirtualBox to see if i can somehow make a Win7 machine to trick the game. Other than that i'm completely out of ideas...

i'm setting it to Win7 with 32gb and 1 core

[Guts]

well, i give up... i tried almost everything in the dual / quad core sticky of this section and i would've posted this there if it wasn't locked.

I'm not good enough to make any kind of bios changes like setting the cpu to 200 or w/e that guy was talking about, it was way over my head.

I'll keep an eye on this post if anyone has anything i can try to fix the fps issue, i'd really appreciate the help.

[fryguy]

Newer AMD graphics cards completely lack hardware support for DX9 and that has been causing major issues for those owners and legacy games. I am betting that is your issue.

[Guts]

Newer AMD graphics cards completely lack hardware support for DX9 and that has been causing major issues for those owners and legacy games. I am betting that is your issue.

after your post i did some diggin on this particular part. I downloaded dx9 redist, visual c++ 2010 and .net framework for 2010.

I couldn't find anything saying newer gpus lack hardware support for dx9.. then again it could just be my lack of google fu.

I'm having a really hard time coming to terms with any reason why a 25y/o game can't be played on a machine built by todays components :(

[fryguy]

Yea, There is no hardware support for DX9 in 6000+ series AMD cards. They use some emulation on the driver level to allow some level of functionality to still exist, but it is not performant.

Example comment chains regarding it: https://forums.realflight.com/index.php?threads/amd-rx-6600-xt-issue.55790/
https://forum.kw-studios.com/index.php?threads/amd-radeon-6000-series-in-vr.18452/
https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/issues-with-older-direct-x-9-games/m-p/190547


Some discussions talk about disabling SMART ACCESS MEMORY : https://community.amd.com/t5/general-discussions/request-dx9-support-fix-on-amd-radeon-gpu-s/td-p/615342

[Guts]

Yea, There is no hardware support for DX9 in 6000+ series AMD cards. They use some emulation on the driver level to allow some level of functionality to still exist, but it is not performant.

Example comment chains regarding it: https://forums.realflight.com/index.php?threads/amd-rx-6600-xt-issue.55790/
https://forum.kw-studios.com/index.php?threads/amd-radeon-6000-series-in-vr.18452/
https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/issues-with-older-direct-x-9-games/m-p/190547


Some discussions talk about disabling SMART ACCESS MEMORY : https://community.amd.com/t5/general-discussions/request-dx9-support-fix-on-amd-radeon-gpu-s/td-p/615342

thank you for these awesome reads... im gonna disable SAM and see if that helps <3 <3

[Guts]

Nope, disabling SAM didn't work at all and i am still having the same issue. After reading some into the second to last link you posted. There's a twitter post from a guy named Terry Makedon saying and "Happy 2018 everyone!! I am seeing some stories pop up about AMD not supporting some old games. That is absolutely not true, we are identifying the bug and working on a fix asap. C&C, Witcher, BfME, etc will be working again."

This being 5 years ago though, so who knows what's going on. I wonder if i put in a ticket to the AMD team if they'll respond with a way to make it run better or just ignore me... worth a shot, so i'll ask them if they know a "work around"...hehe

[blackdragonsdg]

After seeing this I start searching around and found a couple of things.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/21690/discussions/0/3728449612318695109/

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/DgVoodoo_2

I have never used either of those before but it may be worth checking into.

[Guts]

After seeing this I start searching around and found a couple of things.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/21690/discussions/0/3728449612318695109/

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/DgVoodoo_2

I have never used either of those before but it may be worth checking into.

BRO OMFG IT WORKS.... DGVoodoo2 is amazing!!!! i can't believe it works!!!