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the card isn't going to make much difference in JF-18 and F-4 with frame
rates as there simply is not enough grunt in you p3-500 to generate the
higher FPS.

I've found that F4 FPS scales very well with CPU upgrades.

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Bard
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Chuck <cobrasvt@NOmy-dejanewsSPAM.com> wrote in message
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> 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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