G400 and Half-Life performance?

[Johnny Ray]

Mikko,

Seems odd. Even prior to the TurboGL drivers, I was able to play TFC at 1024X768 in OpenGL with my G400Max with smooth internet play (~30 FPS).

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PIII450 => 504 MHz, Asus P2B, G400MAX, PowerDesk 5.30, Aureal SQ 2500 (Vortex2), Klipsch Promedia V2.400 speakers, DirectX 7.0, Adaptec AHA-2940U2W and Fireport40 Dual UW SCSI controllers, Quantum Atlas 10K and WD Enterprise HDs, Plextor UtraPlex Wide, S&F 4012 CDR, the last ISA modem, etc.

[prkl]

G400 and Half-Life performance?

I have tried almost everything to get a decent framerate in Half-Life (1.0.1.3) but no luck. Blowup.dem gives about 20fps (800x600, OpenGL) - it is not just enough for AHL multiplayer mode...
My home rig:
DualBoot Win98/W2K Prof RC2
Abit BP6 + 2xCeleron366@560MHz
128MB/10GB IBM HD/G400 DH 32MB

I have tried following things to get maximum performance when playing HL:
a) autoexec.cfg by Kruzin
b) overclocking G400 to 120%
c) optimized Windoze settings

DualHead and EBMP are pretty cool features and I am satisfyied with D3D performance compared to G200 (app. 65% faster in 3DMark99 MAX)... but poor performance in HL is really pissing me off. Any suggestions?



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-Mikko-

[SiRiO_KD]

I run HalfLife with DirectX drivers instead OpenGL one with my G400DH 16Mb.
I got at least 50 fps with my :
Celeron 300A@464MHz, SBLive!, 128Mb

[Nuno]

Blowup is a very cpu taxing benchmark, not really a video card benchmark. It will give around 20 fps with almost every videocard out there... It´s a worst case scenario, really...