Win2K + Q3A Lumpy Bits

[giskard]

I've recently migrated to Win2K and i'd be interested to get some feedback on these Q3A timedemo scores.

Demo 001 51.3 fps
Demo 002 48.0 fps

Timedemo is run at 800x600, medium detail and sound on.

This seems a little crappy to me. My machine isn't a slouch; i was getting closer to 70 fps before in win98 se.

Has anyone else noticed such a big performance drop when going to Win2K? If anyone has any groovy graphics scripts for Q3A, i'd really like to give em a lash.

Cheers,

Giskard.
giskard@albury.net.au

System:

PIII 500E @ 720mhz
Soyo SY-6BA+ IV Motherboard
128mb PC133 Apacer SDRAM
16mb Matrox G400 D/H
AGP @ 96mhz set at 2x
PD 5.04 Drivers
Running MGA Tweak - PLL 300, 150/200/150
13.5gig Westerndigital Expert hdd @ ATA66
Win2K
Various fans and stuff

[Nuno]

giskard: Don´t really know what you mean with "medium detail" but I ran the timedemos in 800x600, 16 bit color, 16 bit textures, texture detail one notch from top, bilinear, medium geometry detail. Drivers 5.04, G400 32 Mb @150/200, Athlon 600, 128 Mb RAM. The results shouldn´t be that acurate, because I had 12 IE windows open, outlook express, zonealarm, powerstrip and mobo monitor 4.17 running in the background. Man I love win2k
Anyway: 52.5 demo001, 51.5 demo002.
Use this settings and compare. Your results should be higher, because Q3 is more "Intel friendly" and at 800x600x16 the G400 shouldn´t be fillrate limited yet. But then again I don´t know if you are running with these settings.

[This message has been edited by Nuno (edited 19 April 2000).]

[giskard]

Sorry Nuno, i was being a bit vague. Detail levels and colour depth matched yours -minus the 200 IE windows :-)

I've seen similar posts on this subject, but most have reported only a slight drop in fps.
Any more input/timedemo scores would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Giskard.