Q3benching

[Zapruder]

Mboard: AsusP5A ATX
RAM: 128 MB 100mhz
CPU K6_2 400
Grafix: Mill. G400 32MB Sh

Quake3 1.16n; Demo001

Settings:
Res: 1024
color- & texdebth: 32 bit
highest texture- & geo. details
; lightmap

Driver: 5.53 (from paraknowya)
FPS with Tril. Filtering: 19.3
FPS with Bil. Filtering: 23

Driver: TurboGL 1.30.02
Trilinear: 19.7 fps
Bilinear: 25.2 fps

Is there anybody reading this & having the SAME HardwareCOMBO?
Please compare ur FPS & reply with them here.
And is there anybody having the same hardwarecombo but CPU & mboard?
...perhaps the Athlon 700 & the FIC SD11 ???
Please post ur fps!

by the way: to get ur fps simply switch to Q3console (TILT-key) and enter:
\timedemo 1
\demo demo001

[MadCat]

That sounds about right. Your G400 SH is only clocked at 126MHz, and is a far cry from the horsepower of most gaming cards today. To top it off, your framerates cant get much higher due to CPU limitations. The K6-2 is obsolete as far as new games go, even with 3d-now.

Some suggestions for better performance:

Turn down geometric detail to low. your framerates are CPU-limited, so any bit of CPU power you can save is helpful.

Push your resolution down to 640x480, or overclock your board and push it to 800x600. Understand this: people with GeForce DDR cards hardly even get 60fps at 1024x768x32, so youre not likely to top 30-40.

Turn down your detail settings. if your card has 32mb of ram, turn it to 1 notch below highest, otherwise set it to 2 notches below the highest. 32mb of memory is not enough to hold a 32-bit frame buffer, z and Q3A'a highest-quality textures. As a result, youre killing your performance due to AGP texture streaming (did I mention the AGP implementation for Super 7 systems like yours also sucks ass?).

BTW: the Athlon is a completely different CPU from the K6-2, and hence you could not find a similar configuration, or similar performance.

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[paulcs]

Turning off some of the "Game Options" might help as well.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Shoyu]

Maybe most of the nice visuals are turned off in my config, but I get 53.6 FPS at 800x600. It's a Celeron 300A, with 5.53.017 ICD only.

[magister]

i get 54.5 fps at 640x480x32bit all at
max, hight quality setting, 32z 32t turbogl1.3 + 5.52
my system celly 400@600
g400 max o'c