bryo
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Post by bryo on Jan 4, 2015 1:42:10 GMT
Has anyone gotten MW3 to work properly on their Windows 8 machines? I can get it to run fine, there is only one MAJOR issue, and it is the framerate. For whatever reason, once I am in game, the framerate becomes locked at 18 fps. I have played with settings on my graphics card's drivers, and the issue persists. I change compatibility modes as well, and the frame rate issue persists. I googled and found this which seems to imply that the fps problem is a windows 8 issue, and I want to see if anyone else is experiencing this issue.
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Post by bryo on Jan 6, 2015 21:19:42 GMT
Just an update, I just realized that alt tabbing the game, then tabbing back in brings the frame rate up to hover around 30 or so. Bot really sure why or what that means, but it gives me hope that there is some way to get this working at a solid 60fps
EDIT: just tried using my integrated graphics, same fps problem, but there was visual corruption too. This leads me to believe that AMD fixed the z-buffer issue in one of their latest driver updates BUT it also implies that my framerate issue is windows related, and likely not a graphics card problem.
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Post by bryo on Jan 8, 2015 1:25:07 GMT
Okay! I have some IMPORTANT information for anyone else trying to run MW3.
First off, THE Z-BUFFER issue for AMD cards seems to have been fixed in the 14.12 OMEGA driver updates. Since using this update my HD7950 no longer artifacts in MW3! Also be sure that you have anti-aliasing disabled, or the issue will reoccur.
Second, WINDOWS 8 has an issue with older Direct3D Games! MW3 will have poor framerates! I am now dual booting with MW3 running on windows 7 with the amd 14.12 drivers installed and it runs like a DREAM!
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Post by Perigren on Jan 8, 2015 14:11:28 GMT
thats awesome. I will try to get my wife to unbury my computer and desk from under all her work related stuff and give it a go
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Post by speedyspcfan on Mar 20, 2015 15:57:34 GMT
You can (most likely) fix the D3D issues with any number of alternatives that wrap old D3D to versions like D3D11. dgVoodoo's (http://dege.freeweb.hu/) latest version features a surprisingly robust DirectDraw emulator. WineD3D 1.1.14 (http://nongnu.askapache.com/wined3d/1.1.14/wined3d.exe) features some pretty great emulation for all versions of Direct3D. Make sure you extract the DLLs from the executable using 7zip, don't actually install it.
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