20fps ... please 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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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....t-issue.55790/
https://forum.kw-studios.com/index.p...s-in-vr.18452/
https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers...mes/m-p/190547


Some discussions talk about disabling SMART ACCESS MEMORY : https://community.amd.com/t5/general...-s/td-p/615342

[Guts]

Originally Posted by 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....t-issue.55790/
https://forum.kw-studios.com/index.p...s-in-vr.18452/
https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers...mes/m-p/190547


Some discussions talk about disabling SMART ACCESS MEMORY : https://community.amd.com/t5/general...-s/td-p/615342

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