New Voodoo3 Drivers
by Steve Gibson, Oct 28, 1999 8:09pm PDT3dfx has released some new Voodoo3 drivers for their 2000 and 3000 cards. They are up to the infamous 1.03.00 driver version which is just too exciting for words. (No, really) There are a couple of different downloads for DX6 or DX7 users. So... someone tell us if they are any faster or not?
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Comments
After I set everything back to normal the benchmarks are the same as before, maybe a slight hair faster...
Now all I need is the Q3 demo to torture test it! JC, we\'re waiting...
Oh, whoops, I forgot to turn the monitor on
up from 43.6 to ~46.5 (havent run the demo enough i only ran it 2x)
and thats in custom settings..
hmm whats a good dvd player?
my compaq dvd player isnt worthy of playing the matrix again... ;)
This could account for the minor speed loss some of you have been reporting. It didn\'t make one bit of difference in Q3 on my system. I would think maybe a D3D game might run faster though.
In Q3Demo1 I jumped from 112.9 to 118.0 FPS.
I love my K7!
\"What are you talking about #2, the new drivers are shite. Just look at this massive drop in fps:\"
It drops slightly over ONE fucking frame a second, but you actually show your searing stupidity by capping off your post with:
\"It\'s practically unplayable now. Grrr!\"
Well, why don\'t you just go sue 3Dfx.
- Monkey
\"Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can\'t teach god anything.\"
6.4 ATA (5400 rpm)
Windows 98
256 Megs of Ram
V3 3000 @ 183mhz
same as ever to me. for everything.
but then, I don\'t really care. GeForce 256 is my next goal, to go along with a new Athalon system :) woO.
Thanks!
-Lex
Q3test V1.08 Default Config on Celeron 300a @ 450 + Voodoo 3 3000
Old Drivers
Q3demo1 55.3 55.4 55.5 Average = 55.400
Q3demo2 46.2 46.3 46.2 Average = 46.233
New Drivers
Q3demo1 54.4 54.3 54.3 Average = 54.333
Q3demo2 45.5 45.4 45.5 Average = 45.433
It\'s practically unplayable now. Grrr!