perfomance problem with voodoo5?

Thread View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim

2 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

2 total messages Started by Chuck Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:00

#156

Author: Chuck
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:00

32 lines
2502 bytes

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

Re: perfomance problem with voodoo5?

#157

Author: Renegade
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:00

48 lines
3087 bytes

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
>
>

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads