Vsync off doesnt improve scores

[Liquid Snake]

Turning off vsync in registry doesnt improve scores:
5.21
Vsync on
Quake1 Bigass1 timedemo
1024x768 - 47.4fps
Vsync off
1024x768 - 47.4fps

So I don't think it's vsync being on that's affecting the GL performance in 5.21. BTW, is there anyway to turn off vsync in Q1? I think it's vid_wait 0 in software mode. Not sure about GL though.

[Kruzin]

Did you see this thread, and does your registry check out OK?

http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum5/HTML/004237.html

[LAMFDTK]

Getting to be one long day here Kruzin

[Liquid Snake]

yeah, mine is at 0001. i edited the reghack to use 0001 instead of 0000.

[MattTr]

Hi,
I too see no difference at all. I checked registry, deleted everything under desktop, installed 5.21 drivers and checked out. Matrox G400 is definitly on 0000.
With vsync on in Quake 2 1024x768x32 I get 63 FPS. With Vsyn off I get 63 FPS. No difference at all.
Autoexec.cfg is also set to Vsync off. I don't know it is fast enough but to me Disabling the Vsync does absolutley nothing for Open GL.
Pentium 3 500mz, 128 meg, yada, yada, yada

[Heirauqs]

See the message above. I have the same problems. No changes with vsync on/off.

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[MM]

Ditto... There is no 0001 or 0002 or whatever. Only 0000. And the registry hack IS applied to 0000 - checked. Therer is no difference at all. Quake 3 timedemo 1; demo q3demo1.dm3 gives 13.8fps. I suspect the problem is in some routine that is used only in the part where there is the open scene and everyone is jumping around shooting at each other on the stairs. That's where it halts to below 10fps. Averaged with the rest, it probably gives the 13.8 figure I see.

Michael

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P2c-300a/450, 192MB PC125 SDRAM, Quantum Fireball Plus KA 18.2GB 7200rpm, Panasonic 7502B x4/x8 Ultra SCSI CD-R, Tekram DC-390U2W Ultra2Wide SCSI controller, Diamond MX300 (Vortex2), Creative Labs AWE64 Gold Sound Blaster, A-Trend Voodoo II 12MB, Matrox Millennium G400Max, 19" Hitachi SuperScan 752 and some other fancy stuff

[wiggo]

I'm getting the same results. Changing the VSync settings makes no difference to my Q3Demo1 scores:

640 X 480 = 37 fps
800 X 600 = 27 fps

I have tried changing VSync via the registry, the Q3 game options page and the r_swapinterval console command but none of these seem to turn VSync off.

By the way, it is nice to 32bit Z buffer support working with no performance hit.

And thanks to all the forum regulars trying to sort out the driver problems. Help is much appreciated.