FPS problems with older Call of Duty

[LAYZER]

Hello there.

I seem to be having some fps issues with Call of Duty 1 and its expansion: United Offensive. These games are from 2003/2004 and should be causing me no difficulty in running what so ever.

I have an XFX Radeon 5870 graphics card (not to be confused with the non-XFX version) and struggle to maintain 125fps at the best of times which is extremely irritating as I had significantly better performance and no fps issues at all running my old Nvidia 9800GT card which obviously is not near the level of my current graphics card.

I've tried installing various Catalyst versions, but to be honest there's so many it's beyond a nuisance to pick a specific one to 'try' .. I'm not even sure it makes a substantial difference but nevertheless I tried it.

I'd also like to note that the rest of my computer specs are more than capable of running these old games as the performance was always flawless running my old 9800GT which unfortunately broke due to use. It is most definitely a graphics card issue and I'm running 32bit XP just to note.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! First post here so excuse my babbling.

 

[DiaSin]

Is CoD1 an OpenGL game? I have been told that OpenGL runs far better on Nvidia cards, and I most certainly get far less FPS than I should in the original Day of Defeat on my AMD chip.

 

[LAYZER]

Not sure what 'OpenGL' actually means, but CoD1's era was around the time of DoD so I'm not sure.

 

[DiaSin]

Not sure what 'OpenGL' actually means, but CoD1's era was around the time of DoD so I'm not sure.

I no longer have a working copy of the original call of duty, can you open the games settings and check for a render device option? See if it says Direct3D or OpenGL if there is one. For example, in DoD I average 40-50 fps, while it is rendered by OpenGL, and in UT2k4, which is rendered by DirectX 9, and is a year newer with better graphics, I average upwards of 70, sometimes getting high as 85-90.

 

[LAYZER]

Both CoD1 and its expansion are rendered by DirectX 9 also. Is it a possibility that my overly-updated DirectX could be prompting some form of negative reaction? Perhaps a downgrade might do the trick?

 

[DiaSin]

Both CoD1 and its expansion are rendered by DirectX 9 also. Is it a possibility that my overly-updated DirectX could be prompting some form of negative reaction? Perhaps a downgrade might do the trick?

I doubt that is it, because even on a DX11 card a DX9 game will still run on DX9. Honestly at this point I am stumped.

 

[LAYZER]

Not a problem. Thanks for your time anyway!

 

[Alexander Tsodikov]

Has anybody tried Hialgoswitch for COD to increase fps?

 

[Morbus]

DirectX isn't updated, you just add newer libraries that only new games will use. What may be happening though, is that your OS isn't doing the same stuff and your performance may be suffering. But I wouldn't know.

My suggestion is get a framerate limiter and cap those FPS at 60, and save your poor GPU from the stress... Have some pity on the little dude.