Overclocking Ati cards

[Zeroedout]

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to overclock my Radeon 9800 in linux. There are a few tools for windows, but are there any out for linux? If not, is there a way to do it manually? I saw a question like this asked on linux-users.com or some other forum, but the post never got a reply. The ati drivers arn't the best on linux, so OC'ing my card would really (hopefully) help with the performance.

[gil-galad]

Its not worth it :( . The ati drivers will still suck and go slow even with it overclocked.

[Zeroedout]

Its not worth it :( . The ati drivers will still suck and go slow even with it overclocked.

Granted, yes, however, my card right now is at 324/290, i can usually bump it up to 400/330 seems to make a difference on windows, it should at least gimme some performance gain. Besides, a while back i attached a big *** fan to my case, and seems to be a waste now to make it useless. Not that i'm a crazy gamer anymore, but ut2k4 and doom3 (and bud) really help deal with the stress, and it kinda suks playing them with really low detail. Guess if i can't OC the card, i'll have to wait untill ATI shapes up their drivers; and stick to cube.

[kvidell]

Granted, yes, however, my card right now is at 324/290, i can usually bump it up to 400/330 seems to make a difference on windows, it should at least gimme some performance gain. Besides, a while back i attached a big *** fan to my case, and seems to be a waste now to make it useless. Not that i'm a crazy gamer anymore, but ut2k4 and doom3 (and bud) really help deal with the stress, and it kinda suks playing them with really low detail. Guess if i can't OC the card, i'll have to wait untill ATI shapes up their drivers; and stick to cube.
That's in windows. Read his whole message.
Ati's Linux drivers are specifically quite arsey, and there's little to naught you can do to fix it, as far as I'm educated.
Go nVidia if you want to overclock something in Linux.
- Kev

[Zeroedout]

That's in windows. Read his whole message.
Ati's Linux drivers are specifically quite arsey, and there's little to naught you can do to fix it, as far as I'm educated.
Go nVidia if you want to overclock something in Linux.
- Kev

yea, prob a good idea, however no cash right now (and none for a while), especially none to spend on a vid card. So no tools out there to OC my card, nothing in progress either?

[kvidell]

yea, prob a good idea, however no cash right now (and none for a while), especially none to spend on a vid card. So no tools out there to OC my card, nothing in progress either?
Well, it's not a matter of the tools existing I don't think... I'm sure they do.
The problem is the drivers are a bottleneck.
You can overclock it all you want, the drivers still don't crank as fast as the GPU.

[PaulX]

That is crap. Ati cards rock under linux. It is not a problem of thier drivers, it may be a problem of your machine. try installing a new kernel, configured well via make menuconfig and patched with -ac. I have an mobility9600 and it sucked on ubuntu (stock kernel), now i recompiled the kernel with nice compile options and ac patch and i can play it very well at high quality :grin:

[gil-galad]

no....the drivers are pretty bad. I am not saying they are unusable, but they are much slower than in windows.

[kvidell]

That is crap. Ati cards rock under linux. It is not a problem of thier drivers, it may be a problem of your machine. try installing a new kernel, configured well via make menuconfig and patched with -ac. I have an mobility9600 and it sucked on ubuntu (stock kernel), now i recompiled the kernel with nice compile options and ac patch and i can play it very well at high quality :grin:
I highly doubt all the people in the linux community who have problems are incapable of purchasing compatible hardware.
That's a pretty bold, and, I'm going to go ahead and say, incorrect statement.

You got lucky maybe. I did. My laptop's cruising right along with a Mobility, although I don't play anything more graphically intense than Frozenbubble.

ATIs drivers are nefariously crap on Linux. It's a fact of life (at least for the time being).
I'm to understand that there's some at least mediocrely better ones released third-party-wise.. but that they still don't par up to nVidia's first-party support for *nix.

- Kev

[Zeroedout]

I'm to understand that there's some at least mediocrely better ones released third-party-wise..
- Kev

would you be able to point me to these 3rd party drivers? :)

[Pappa Smurf]

i have a solution, but it may be a little, well, dangerous but its the only thing i can think of. The best windows-based overclocking tool in my opinion is ATI tool, on their website is a link to all the BIOS's for ATI cards, and within these BIOS's you can set your own hard-coded clock-frequencies when you download the BIOS.

[floyd27]

I wrote a HOW-to to overclock ati cards...
It does provide increased performance...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=74049