Slowdown in games mainly due to crappy win2k liveware!!!

[Mr. Cold]

I am pretty sure that the slowdowns I am getting in Unreal Tournament (version 420) in win2k are boiled down to the crappy Liveware drivers that dont have hardware DirectSound acceleration, etc so its using the cpu for that so its slowing things down.

Otherwise framerates are fine with the new 5.10 beta g400 drivers, but they do get slowed down a lot when theres a lot of sound action going on. Come on Creative Labs get your butts moving on the new liveware for win2k!!

[ALBPM]

MAN!!! Have you changed your tune

Good things come to those who wait so hang in there.

Paul

[Brian R.]

I had serious shut-down problems with UT v420 in W2K. Reinstalled V413B - works fine. I'll never use V420 again.


[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 15 June 2000).]

[paulcs]

I saw a performance drop from 405B to 413 when testing with UTBench. I notice a lot of hardware sites continue to use 405B when benchmarking with UT.

It's a cause for concern. UT scales poorly from resolution to resolution, from bit depth to bit depth, and from board to board (excluding 3dfx), leaving the CPU (and Glide) as the primary speed determinant. Any time I see a noticable framerate variation, I get concerned. One wonders what's going on.

On the plus side, the game seems to play well at relatively low framerates.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net