🚀 go-pugleaf

Just my one cent,

I would also hope that as 3dfx release new drivers so there will be a
gradual increase in performance. From owning a V3 from when it was first
released to the latest batch of drivers there was an increase in
performance. Hopefully with 3dfx realising that they have a lot of catching
up to do with Nvidia, they will try and minimise the difference by
optimising the drivers. Not that the V5 will ever beat the GTS hands down,
but certainly I hope to see the same kind of improvement with my V5 that I
did when I owned my V3

Best Regards,

Mark Fletcher

"Renegade" <spammer@eatshit.com> wrote in message
news:scXe5.240$lI6.34915@news.uswest.net...
> My results were exactly the same for flight sims (not a Q3 player) I
didn't
> get any improvement in FPS over my V3 3500 and FPS is about the same in
> Fastest and 2x but the image quality at 2X is WOW. Plan on trying to find
a
> CuMine this week to improve the FPS. I understand that with V5 the
> performance increase in going from a katmai to CuMine is not linear but
> substantilly better so we have to see for ourselves.
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Renegade
> renegadeheretic@uswest.net
> "Chuck" <cobrasvt@NOmy-dejanewsSPAM.com> wrote in message
> news:397C3A03.7BBD9ADC@NOmy-dejanewsSPAM.com...
> > First let me say everything people are ranting about FSAA is true.  Once
> > you've used it you dont ever know how you dealt with the shimmering.
> > FSAA is definitely not just about the "jaggies".
> >
> > I'm having some unusual findings with the Voodoo 5500.  Naturally, when
> > I first got it I wanted to see if it was faster than the Voodoo3 it
> > replaced.  Fired up quake2 and unreal and there was real improvement.
> > This is on a P3 500 (560...5x112), 128mb ram, Monster sound MX300,
> > Stickworks digital F22/TQS, Linksys Etherfast 10/100 (dont think
> > anything but the processor matters, but who knows!)
> >
> > Next, I do F4, JF/A-18, and USAF and there wasn't any improvement over
> > the Voodoo3, maybe even somewhat worse (at fastest performance).  But
> > then when testing with FSAA, there was no performance hit, same rates on
> > or off.  I even went as far as to install win 98 clean on a hidden
> > partition, install USAF and still no change.  And yes, FSAA was really
> > off with the "fastest performance" setting and on with the "FSAA
> > x4"setting. This was with the box drivers, the hacked drivers, and today
> > with the 1.01.00.
> >
> > I know from reading about the FSAA toggle key registry hack that the
> > Voodoo 5 reserves memory, etc. and that the toggle wont improve frame
> > rate.  I wonder if something is wrong with my install or card that would
> > explain this relative performance lag over my voodoo3.  Or maybe I'm
> > just exposing the fact that video is not the bottleneck.  Still, I would
> > expect some improvement over the v3.
> >
> > Still, even if this isn't some error, the image quality is well worth
> > it, and I'm not getting much frame rate difference with FSAAx4, so it's
> > kind of a freebie right now.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
>
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