Frame rate questions

[Guest]

When i enable detail textures i get around 30 fps or less, but if a turn them off i get 55-60 fps rock-solid. What's happening? Isn't the radeon supposed to manage tri-texture effects in a single pass like detail textures? Run in 800*600*32 , everything high, except detail textures. Many people seem to have the same problem with their Radeons

My specs:

Athlon 800 T-bird
128 Mb PC-133
Radeon 32Mb DDR (4.13.7115 drivers)
Tyan Trinity KT Motherboard (Via 4in1 drivers 4.32)

[PsychoGoatee]

Detail textures are a memory hog. Case closed images/icons/wink.gif

[Guest]

I play Alice with hi-res textures and detail textures enabled at the same resolution i play Max Payne and i don't get such a performance hit as i do in Max Payne