The New Matrox TurboGL Drivers Rock!!!!! Check out my Benchmarks!!!

[ManojM]

Hi!

I got some great improvements with the new 5.30 drivers.

I have a pentium III 450 overclocked to 558 Mhz on an Abit BE6 motherboard. I have the G400 Max 32megs (not overclocked)

Here are my Quake II benchmarks:

Demo 1
640 by 480 (5.25 drivers) - 87.9 fps
(5.30 drivers) - 104.1 fps

800 by 600 (5.25 drivers) - 83.5 fps
(5.30 drivers0 - 99 fps

Crusher
640 by 480 (5.25 drivers) - 45 fps
(5.30 drivers) - 52.9 fps

800 by 600 (5.25 drivers) - 43.9 fps
(5.30 drivers) - 51.8 fps

Massive 1
640 by 480 (5.25 drivers) - 65.6 fps
(5.30 drivers) - 78.9 fps

800 by 600 (5.25 drivers) - 64.4 fps
(5.30 drivers) - 77.1 fps

I didn't disable the sound in any of the demos.

This goes to prove that the Matrox G400 doesn't suck in OpenGL Games anymore. Now I can hang on to my G400 Max and wait for better cards to release next year.

Regards,
Manoj Mahtani

[CoolBreeze]

Please tell me what kind of settings are you using to obtain 78 fps in Q3!!!...because i am only getting 26 fps at 1024x768x32 (everything maxed), that is 50 more fps than i am getting!!! Something is wrong here...shead some light on us here..

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P3 500(not overclocked)
128 MB PC100 SDRAM
SE440BX-2 Motherboard by Intel
Seagate 8.4 gig HDD
Diamond MX300 Sound Card
AOpen 40x CD ROM
Ethernet 32 bit PCI Card
Motorola Cable Modem
Matrox G400 32 OEM Single Head @150
17" CRT Monitor
Altec Lansing 2 Speakers and Sub

----CoolBreeze aka KAST----

[ManojM]

Hi!

How do I benchmark in Quake 3 and Half Life!

Can someone give me the commands?

Regards,
Manoj Mahtani

[Nigel Bradshaw]

Manojm

For Q3 the simple command from the console is +timedemo 1 +demo q3demo1 but for a better benchmark test try start Q3 using the following command line

quake3.exe +seta r_mode 6 +seta r_fullscreen 1 +seta r_swapinterval 0 +vid_restart +s_initsound 0 +snd_restart +timedemo 1 +demo q3demo1

Hope this helps.

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Nigel

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