PD 5.3 Installation observation and a dumb question

[Rogier]

Chucky,
be warned: WIN2K RC2 has DX7 enforced, which will disable D3D unless you have a DX7 certified driver (which 5.30 is not, I guess). Dual-booting RC1/RC2 is a very wise idea for that matter.
BTW, did you get Dual Head working under W2K ?

[Chucky Cheese]

rogier,

i leave myself in the hands of matrox on the d3d issue. i'm not one to rush, i'd rather matrox take their time and get it right the first time.

i haven't got win2k installed yet as i am waiting on my 9.1 GB cheetah drive so i can split it in half and then dual-boot between win98se and win2k.

chucky


[This message has been edited by Chucky Cheese (edited 10-11-1999).]

[This message has been edited by Chucky Cheese (edited 10-11-1999).]

[Chucky Cheese]

Hey GD,

here are some scores from 3dmark99, i liked the program so much i web purchased it...

** Motherboard: AMI MegaRUM II, dual 600Mhz Pentium III processors (installed), /w512 L2 Cache each. 512 Mb of PC100, 8ns memory. Symbios Logic 53C896 U2W SCSI controllers. Intel 440GX chipset.

SCSI I/O:
** Channel 1(Ultra2): 4 Seagate Cheetah 9LP, ST34502LW Ultra2 Wide SCSI-3 hard Drives, each with 512k cache.

** Channel 2(SE): JAZ 2GB internal, Plex-Writer 8/20, Pioneer DVD-303s ultra-scsi DVD reader and 2 UltraPlex-Wide 17/40 speed CD-ROM drives.
** USB: USB Zip Drive.
** Networking: The network adapter is a 3Com 3C509B-TX PCI adapter and a US Robotics Courier V.Everything 33.6/28.8/x2/V.90 internal ISA modem.
** Video: Matrox G400 Max with Dual Head. The primary display is a Panasonic PanaSync E21, .25-dot pitch, 20" viewable; the secondary display is a Viewsonic flat panel display model VP150.
** Multi-media: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live PCI Bus Mastering sound card. Speaker system is the Cambridge Works FPS2000 Digital speaker system.

Project Settings (Template):
Rendering Platform: Internal (Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead - English)
Resolution: 1024*768
Color Depth: 16-bit Color
CPU Optimization: Intel(r) Pentium(r) III
Z-Buffer: 16-bit
Frame Buffer: Triple buffering
Refresh Rate: 84 Hz
Looping: Disabled
Texture Format: 16-bit, 4444 RGBA
Run Tests: Once
Title Screen: Shown

Test Results:
3DMark Result : 5,266 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed : 8,912 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score : 2,461 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race: 56.7 FPS
Game 2 - First Person: 49.2 FPS
Fill Rate : 255.3 MTexels/s
Fill Rate With Multi-Texturing : 254.8 MTexels/s
2MB Texture Rendering Speed: 265.8 FPS
4MB Texture Rendering Speed: 212.4 FPS
8MB Texture Rendering Speed: 145.2 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed: 110.4 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed: 56.8 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 3-pass: 80.5 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 2-pass: 106.4 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 1-pass: 196.8 FPS


System:
Windows Version: Windows 4 A , Build 2222
DirectX Version: 4.07.00.0700
Bios Version:
Bios Date: 07/15/95
Total Physical Memory: 511 MB
Free Physical Memory: 305 MB

Processor:
Processor Type: Intel Pentium III
Processor Speed: 600 MHz
Processor Caps: MMX SSE
L1 Cache Size: 32 KB
L2 Cache Size: 512 KB

Desktop:
2D Display Adapter Name: Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead - English
2D Display Adapter Driver Date: 10- 6-1999
Monitor Name: Panasonic E21
Monitor Driver Date: 5-30-1997
Desktop Resolution: 1280*1024
Desktop Color Depth: 16-Bit Color

3D Accelerator:
Name: Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead - English
Driver Name: G400DD32.DLL
Driver Version: 4.11.01.1300
Total Video Memory On Card: 32,698

[This message has been edited by Chucky Cheese (edited 12 October 1999).]

[GD]

Hi chucky!

I know our motherboards already have 64-bit slots. In fact the SCSI controllers are connected using a 64-bit wide bus. Anyway that 400W ps is a very weird. You might have a problem indeed with all the peripherals you have put in there! Anyway this motherboard is aimed at servers and I suppose this is why a powerful power supply is recommended. If you read the manual however, you'll see that it refers to 300W as a minimum.

I tried to install redhat 5.1 on my pc but it won't recognise the scsi controllers and as a result neither the HD so I can't install it. LSI logic provides drivers for Solaris, SCO UNIX but not for linux (argh!!). What version of linux did you try?

The 3Dmark scores are relatively low for your machine... I get 4750 3Dmarks with a 450 PII (now this, since it doesn't take advantage of SSE is less than half your FPU performance). Anyway it seems that our motherboard and the 440GX chipset sacrifice stability over performace.

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PC Power and Cooling Deluxe Chrome Tower case and 300W ATX Power Supply, Dual Slot1 440GX AMI MegaRUM II motherboard, 128MB of ECC 100 MHz SDRAM, PII 450 MHz, Matrox G400 MAX, Seagate Cheetah 9,1GB @ primary SCSI Ultra2 Wide controller, Hitachi 4x DVD-ROM, Panasonic (Matsushita) LS-120 Drive, Terratec EWS64XL sound card.

[Chucky Cheese]

GD,

I have a 400 watt PS, and have NO problems. i never shut this thing off...it is plugged into a 1400 VA UPS. that second monitor gets its' power from the power supply. like i said NO problems.

What I was talking about was my friends computers. I'm an electronic technician by trade with a degree in mechanical engineering so i get asked a lot to fix my friends computers. i couldn't beleive how many of them had <200 watt power supplys'...

3dmark is the first benchmark program i've ever bought, i was wondering how my scores compare. my games are silky smooth at 1024x768 @ 32 bit though and thats enough for me.

anyways i didn't get my 9.1 gb cheetah drive today...wah wah wah so i'll have to wait to install win2k...later!

chucky