"GeForce3 has landed....please advise..."

[RoboTECH]

well, I planned on doing an entire driver comparison for the Ultra.
However, just in the last week, I've seen 3 of them that seem to indicate the only real difference for the Ultra in overall framerate is in 3dm2k and 2k1, so no biggie, eh?



I'm going to redo the Serious Sam benches tho (yes, all of them!) because Reverend has put up an excellent couple of scripts, of which I used the "Beyond Extreme".

It was far less stressful than what I had, but I probably didn't have it "optimized" either



[EDIT]

was gonna do a framerate comparison between TC, no TC and DXTC fix, but I found no more than 2 or 3 fps difference

go figure....

soooooo......

I figure I'll finish off these Serious Sam benches, rip that POS GTS Ultra out of the Roborib <hehehe...> and get to work with this here GeForce3 thingee...

BTW, it's a [EDIT] - VISIONTEK, NOT Leadtek

 

[BFG10K]

Man you've got a lot of time on your hands.

You know what I want to see - high res/high detail GLQuake, Quake2, Quake3 and Unreal (original) benchmarks.

 

[BFG10K]

was gonna do a framerate comparison between TC, no TC and DXTC fix, but I found no more than 2 or 3 fps difference

Ah, the joys of 64 MB VRAM.

 

[RoboTECH]

Unreal, Quake2 and Quake3 are already done bro

Quake3 is at the highest level of detail it can be made, according to &quot;The Carmack&quot;

Quake2, I just copied the stuff that oldfart posted to another thread. Ben, the image quality beyotch that he is, was pleased with those settings, so I did demo1, crusher and massive1

and I ran Unrael according to your recommendations.

now, let's be realistic here for a second....how tough is it to do benchmarks?

Hell, I'm studying for my MCSE, I just sit here next to the computer with my book open studying, and run the demos. Very easy.

UP a config for GLQuake bro and I'll do it.

I tried demo1, and got over 400 fps, but that was completely untweeked, just GLQUAKE right otu of the box @ 1024


Also, bump the W98 benches. W2k rules.

 

[oldfart]

I did the no TC, DXTC1, DXTC3 tests when I had that Pro card. It did make a little difference on my system.

demo127 UHQ

No_TC//DXT1//DXT3

1024 x 768
85.4//98.1//92.7

1280 x 1024
53.9//63.9//59.4

1600 x 1200
37.6//44.4//41.5

 

[RoboTECH]

hmmmm....weird

how did you &quot;enable/disable&quot; Texture compression?

I must be doing it wrong.

also, BFG, gimme a GLQuake config dammit!

I'll run what ya want, but I don't have no Q1 config skilz!

 

[oldfart]

To enable/disable, I just changed
seta r_ext_compressed_textures to 0 or 1

For DXTC1 or 3, I changed that reg entry.

 

[RoboTECH]

nonono....

I was talking about Serious Sam 'fart....

BFG, I'm gonna yank this Ultra in a second here...get me that glquake script so I can run it on the ultra....