Basic RadLinker Guide

Chaos

Nice job on the guide dude, lot's of good info for sure. It saved me from asking a nOObish question I had

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Toenail

How do you remove a load profile from a particular game .exe file?

I set one up for UT2K3 and the game will not start most times.

I get a MS error that Windows Explorer will now close.

Even on the times that the game does load, the screen flashes/disappears almost like it is crashing. Same when exiting the game.

I am using the overclock feature, and have returned the D3D/OpenGL settings to default.

Thanks!

hgriffin

Why havnt i got the smartgart tab.... i've got 4.4 but no smartgart....????

zerodamage

It sound like you are either not in your advance tab or you got a corrupt install. Just go to your Start => Programs => Omega drivers and reinstall the Drivers. This should fix that.

dzjepp

Hi,

What does the 'high priority' do in the radlinker shortcut properties, if I set it to high instead of normal can I expect a slight performance boost in my games? When I play games I always have everything else shut off, I dunno.

MythicaL

It CAN increase performance a little, but can cause problems with background applications.

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ChrisW

High priority will devote more processor time to the game. The problem here is your games already use ~100% of the processor. This can starve other critical processes like the mouse and cause delays or mouse lag or poor network performance for online gaming. Lowering this setting may help improve mouse response and may even increase network performance at the cost of lower fps in your games.

MythicaL

Yeah... so it's best not to mess with it.

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Shadow Lady

what does"forced AF" does? i see like same performance and quality as "performace AF"

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ChrisW

Uncheck the "Enable clock rate change" box and reboot. Your card will be back to it's default settings.

Randell

Hi,

I'm having trouble with Radlinks and launcher games. i.e NWN and Steam Counterstrike. I have followed the insructions in the thread and although the games launch fine, no radlink AA or AF settings are applied.

Jlin101

in the more recent versions of radlink, you can simply right-click the game shortcut on desktop and select "add custom setting"; then change its properties just like a radlink. I'm not sure if there's any difference or purpose for having this "custom setting," as opposed to the radlink. This was not explained clearly at the author's site. Does anyone know?

higgledyhiggles

does turning off `use default` settings in radlinker mess up the omega tweaks ?
do i have to set the AF settigns as well or can i just turn on the temporal antialising thingy
and leave it at that ?

cheers
higgles

ChrisW

The custom setting was provided for people that did not like the idea of running shortcuts (for whatever reason). This is the settings that will be used if you just execute the main program or a "normal" shortcut to that program.

ChrisW

It should be fine as long as you don't change any of the settings in the listbox at the bottom. You will need to change the anisotropic filtering setting to reflect your desired setting.

higgledyhiggles

thanks ChrisW
great stuff radlinker. it really goes well on unreal tournament 2004.

btw. what are normal AF settings.?

also does anyone know why this TAA isn`t in the standard driver installation ?
if it`s available to the hardware you`d think they`d add it in to the drievrs.

jimmybob479

I was wondering. Steam isnt the actual game, but the actual hl games run from hl.exe (if its using the hl engine ofcoarse, which tfc, cs, dod, ect are). If i rightclick on hl.exe and make custom settings specifically for that .exe (note - not a radlink, but custom settings), would running a game via steam, which would start up hl.exe trigger these settings? Also, in the guide i didnt notice any info for what people should set their main D3D/openGL control pannel to. If i remmeber correctly, it needs to be checked "custom settings", or so i was told. Adding this in might help with some people questioning, myself included in the past, what to set all that stuff to. And is there a new radlinker on the way? i hear theirs some problems with the new 4.7's, and TAA isnt enabled in it, ect. ChrisW, theirs so mutch work for you involved in this, how do you findthe time and stick to it? You really make something and stick to it. Your answering questions every other post, or every post for that matter . ATi really needs to add custom profiling directly into their official Catalyst drivers! Why dont they do that already?

ChrisW

If you want one setting to apply to all Steam games, then just create a custom setting for Steam itself and those setting will be applied to all Steam games. For instructions on how to set up RadLinks to each individual game, check out the RadLinker FAQ.

I must admit is is a lot more work keeping RadLinker up to date than I originally thought. Especially trying to get it to work with the entire Radeon line of cards, Mobility, FireGL, and IGP boards (currently 194 boards, 99.9% of which I don't own). Not to mention adding support for Windows 9x, Me, 2000, and XP and the various problems with Windows Installer. It is very difficult to produce something that will please everyone and work on everybody's system. It also doesn't help not having a clue what to expect when the next drivers come out or even if it will still work with the next Catalyst release. I can only imagine the nightmare the Catalyst team must go through writing drivers when I have such a difficult time with a tweak program. I know RadLinker looks simple, as it should if I wrote it correctly, but the code itself is very complex.

mkk

Indeed it is a complex matter. The fact that the driver crew still has not found a way to make RadLinker needless indicates the great value of your efforts. Just think back at the control panel rumors last year that never materialised. You're obviously such a nice guy to really want to help everybody, but if I were you I would not worry too much about having to support other operating systems than Windows XP. Or labor to hunt down device ID's and what not for the less usual card types. Especially as you do all of this without profit, a slightly more narrow approach on the support would really not make your effort any bit less admirable.

Randell

yeah, massive props to ChrisW

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v0rt3x

I was using the RadClocker perfectly, then I installed the cat4.7 and when i change my clocks and reopen radlinker it gets back to the default clocks! I have the same thing using ATITool but with atitool it couldnt get even my clocks defaults value...

If someone can help me i ll apreciate! Im also having problems with the gamma after the ca4.7...i dont know if it has connections...and i dont have the temporal option under my D3D or OGL display.

mkk

It's likely that you were running some custom driver package before and got the overclocking lock on your card unlocked by an integrated feature, like in the Omega drivers for instance. Reverting to standard ATI drivers would make that lock work again. As for the other issues it's best put somewhere else than in this thread.

v0rt3x

thx...so with catalyst im not able to do this? Ill try the DNA drivers before the new omega based on 4.7 be released!

highkick

With the latest Omegas installed (v2.5.58), when I set up a Radlink(using the Omega version) to overclock my ATI 9600Pro, the computer will not reset the clock on exit from DOOM3. It stays overclocked, unless I reboot the computer. "Reset Clocks on Exit" is set to "Previous Settings" and "Enable Clock Rate Change" is checked. Please note that I uninstalled everything, including the old version of Radlinker, and used Driver Cleaner 1.3 per the instructions prior to installing the latest Omegas (based on CAT 4.7).

Everything else works great.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would prefer to overclock my video card for certain games only, while leaving the card at default speeds for desktop and internet browsing applications.

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cypher_138

Using a 256MB 9800XT on a system with 1GB of RAM should I enable
-AGP Textures
-video memory textures
I assume Omega doesn't have these enabled by default due to the different setups people use.
I've always wondered this so an answer would be great.

ChrisW

It really depends on your system/graphics card. Try enabling/disabling each one and run a benchmark for comparison. On my system, it runs faster with video memory textures enabled, but I have a slow system with slow memory, so it should be natural for textures to be faster stored on my graphics card.

cypher_138

Seems enabled is faster here as well. Thanks for the quick response Chirs.

DJRaid

[color=white]First of all, congratulations and thank you Chris for creating a streamlined, integrated, and useful tool for Radeon overclockers and tweakers. I especially like the addition of the custom settings for standard windows shortcuts allowing me to bypass .radlink's all together (the custom settings mechanism just feels cleaner to me... personal preference).[/color]

[color=white]My question: What exactly does the "Mode Change" check box in the Direct3D custom settings enable or disable? I had been experiencing a bug with the ATI catalyst drivers since 4.4 whereby unnecessary mode-switching would take place. Basically, for example, the desktop was set to 1024x768x32bpp@100hz and the 3D app was also set for 1024x768x32bpp@100hz. It would seem logical that no mode switching is necessary in this situation; however, the monitor would switch modes. It was a quite an annoying bug for me that I never managed to fix until a few days ago when I started fooling around with the "Mode Change" option in radlinker. Neither completely removing (driver cleaner, safe mode, the whole shebang) and reinstalling the catalyst drivers nor reverting to older cats that I distinctly remember NOT exhibiting the bug seemed to fix the problem. I had about given up.[/color]

[color=white]Once I realized that disabling mode switching via RadLinker’s custom Direct3D settings fixed the problem, not only in Direct3D but also in OpenGL, I quickly searched the registry to see specifically what key was changed. Alas, it was no where to be found… it must be an obscurely named key.[/color]

[color=white]Please enlighten me ChrisW. What does “Mode Change” do? What registry and/or other, settings does it change? Thanks![/color]


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ChrisW

There is no registry value for the mode change button. The mode change button does a quick display mode change (monitor goes black) to ensure the DirectX settings are applied. This is necessary when playing DirectX games in windowed mode or playing in fullscreen at the same resolution and color depth as the desktop.