Q3A low fps whats wrong with my system

[Tom]

Ryuhei,

I know where you're coming from...
I have been using a friend's Asus V6800
(Detonator 6.31 drivers) for two days.
In OpenGL games like QuakeIII, the GeForce
card is MUCH faster.

1024x768x32 Normal setting
G400MAX Demo001 = 39.0 Demo002 = 40.4
GeForce Demo001 = 67.6 Demo002 = 70.0

However, Unreal Tournament (v4.36) was another story. The G400MAX played better and looked better than the GeForce...?....
Then again, maybe I have something wrong
in the game settings

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Matrox G400MAX
PIII 616
Asus P2B-L
128MB
Quantum Fireball KX 27.3
ADI G66
Sound Blaster Live!
Motorola CyberSURFR
Pioneer DVD-103S

[This message has been edited by Tom (edited 19 November 2000).]

[DosFreak]

On a Geforce you run UT in OpenGL.

[2Whyzzi]

I hate to say that I'd agree with most of your folks findings. Benchmarking G400 OEM SH on my BH6 @ 1024x768 = 27fps in "High Quality" mode /w my celermine @ 850MHz.

Quality is surprising however, better than any matrox ICD released so far. Funny how I was able to achieve 34fps using the beta ICD back from Sept 1999, but then I was not able to achieve 70fps in 640x480 with that icd like I can with PowerDesk 6.10 (5.41 driver ICD/TurboGL 51/64fps). I think Matrox has finally added SSE/3DNOW support to their openGL driver.

Reguards,
2Whyzzi
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Abit BH6 R1.01 celeron 566 oc'd 850Mhz
Abit Slotket !!! @ 1.80v
Matrox OEM SH G400 32Meg (not oc'd)
Diamond Monster Sound MX400
2 Nics (NAT32)

[This message has been edited by 2Whyzzi (edited 20 November 2000).]

[Alec]

Why especially on a PCI128? I mean, it´s a PCI card, #d sound should have little impact on framerate, I thought it was about the same impact as the Live!. It has 3D and EAX extensions and 4-speaker output.

[dZeus]

it does have a significant impact, even on a SBLive!

Since the SBLive! does accelerate more of EAX in hardware than a SB128, the framerate hit on the SB128 will be even greater. The fact that they are PCI soundcards has nothing to do with it.