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Voodoo5 Speeds Up?
by Steve Gibson, Jun 16, 2000 1:50pm PDTUhoh, it looks like just about all those V5 benchmarks that have been coming out on the net might have been wrong. According to this post on 3dfxgamers and this post on AnandTech (and his messageboard)there was a problem with the V5 driver installs that was hurting performance by as much as 100%! (According to AnandTech) How in the holy hell did people miss this? How did 3dfx not notice? Here is one of the many people who have tried the new install: (Thanks FatalSync)
Prior to this, I was getting 44.4 fps on Q3 timedemo1, 1280 resolution, 32 bit color and textures, all details set to max, FSAA off. After, I am getting 60.8fps. I'm shellshocked, to say the least. I ran the benchmarks many, many times. Keep in mind that AnandTech benched the Creative Labs GTS (overclocked) at 54.4fps in Q3, same settings.Apparently the regular install is just putting in a generic Voodoo driver instead of the V5 specific driver. I'll give this a shot over the weekend guys, right now there isnt much reason to consider a V5-5500 aside from FSAA capabilities, this might change things. Although I have my doubts. :) 7pm update: Ok it looks like this is indeed a real issue, but it only impacts some installs. I'll find out if this had any impact on the Shack benchmarks over the weekend and will update them if necessary.
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FSAA is good for pretty much jack-shit - you can run in 1024 way faster than 800 w/ FSAA. People are really getting carried away with nothing at the moment - sure FSAA will be great when the cards are good enough to run it with very little decrease in fps but that time is a long way off, and right now I cant really see how any one can justify it right now.
Bottom line: Removal of jaggies (etc) does nothing to improve your playing, a higher framerate does.
BH
*wonders if people actually read those things*
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-mati
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anyone who disagrees with me,well I'll just smash this 40 ounce right over thier friggin head!
buuuuurrrrrrp!
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And for the fuck Blackhawk who likes to run his mouth and act like a jerk, I'll be getting a new system next week and it was a birthday present last week.
Also, T&L is hype. FSAA is where's it, bitch.
Love,
Zilla
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Here are my system specs...
P2 450
128MB RAM
12.3GB 5400
V5 5500 (Duh)
Aureal Vortex2 2500
Here's the benchmarks! Enjoy!
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/slimland/Benchmarking.doc
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..FOR ME TO POOP ON!!
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But then again. There just aren't any games that "need" more than a TNT. Q3Test worked fine with a TNT (50fps with some tweaks) and RA3 should be even better whenever the hell it comes out. There just doesn't seem to be any software out there to justify buying a new card. Or maybe im just getting old and jaded :\
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that eliminates the 450 and 650 benchmarks, and the 950 is my work machine which only has win2k installed right now. (the win98 install got hosed yesterday, big time)
ill give it a shot over the weekend, redwood icq'd me saying that he didnt see any performance gains on his v5 btw. oh well.
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