win2k / GL performance

[nufan]

i have seen posts claiming usable (40+ fps) framerates using win2k and the latest powerdesk win2k beta, however, When i tried it, i got 20.1 fps on the 'high quality' setting of q3. I have a regular G400 and a dual celeron 550.. I didnt test it in single cpu mode, since the mouse was all jumpy with out r_smp 1 turned on.

The people who posted seemed to have p3s or athlons, and while those cpus have their SIMD instructions, a dual celery 550 should be faster than that.
I get in the neighborhood of 42 fps currently in win98.

Did i miss some setting? should i be disabling vsync? what can i do to get usable framerates?

i tried it on nt4 and got 20.3 fps with dual cpus, and 22.4 with a single cpu - i had perfmon running and it looked like the cpus were taking turns, one would spike, then the other, never both high at the same time

nufan

[APV]

Don't expect dual processor will out perform single processor like 2x, smp will give you more stablity rather than speed.

I can download huge file, same time playing mp3, burning a cd and unrar huge file without crashing (dual processor + w2k) while testing this with single only on another machine (w2k) it crash 50% of the time.