Newest Unreal Tournament demo D3D performance

[franksch3]

I must confess that Epic did a great job on optimizing Direct3D performance in Unreal Tournament. It is now very playable at a higher resolution and color depth than my Voodoo2 can. ;-)

Only enabling high quality textures (Using a simple small repeating texture as third texture so that walls etc. look more detailed) causes a somewhat bigger hit than on my Voodoo2). I have the feeling that they could optimize their texture management for Direct3D somewhat better.

So I finally can play this kick ass game really smooth at my G400.

[Smiff]

Yep! Went from 30 to 50 FPS in 1152x864x32. Very nice ... shame the game does my head in

[Rags]

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't texture management handled by DX itself? Maybe the problem you are seeing is due to the current G400 drivers being made for use with DX6.1 and UT needs DX7 and DX7 optimized drivers to perform properly.


Rags

[franksch3]

You are right. They had their own texture management in Unreal. But now they use DirectX 7 textures management. And it still will take some time before the DirectX 7 optimized drivers will be released.

[Snake-Eyes]

At least it's playable pretty well now. I too love this game, and can't wait for the DX7 optimized Matrox drivers, though. Maybe I'll be able to run this game at 1024x768 32bit color, textures, high-res textures, etc., then. Right now I use 800x600, everything else the same, and everything appears to work pretty well.

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Ace

[Clint]

I used to run it in 800*600*16. 32bit at that res ran OK, but I loved the game so much I just wanted max frame rates, 16bit was silky smooth (everything high except world detail).

With the patch, I now play in 1024*768*16 and it's smoother than it was in 800*600*16!! Woohoo! 32bit absolutely kills it on my system though ...

Clint

[TonyA]

Hmm...I only get about a 5 fps hit using 32 bit color on the old version of UT. I'm going to try the new one tonight.

[gobrob]

TonyA,unreal tourney is a totally different game than unreal was.They obviously threw out the mold and made a new one.Original I could get maybe 25fps on celeron450 and g400
unreal tourney 60-70!!(800x600 32bit for both)They've done a great job at keeping the same feel of the original too.
gobrob

[This message has been edited by gobrob (edited 23 October 1999).]