http://speedycpu.dyndns.org/opt/
I think this guy is worth talking to. He argues that Quake3 is very biased toward Intel chips and if it simply detected the athlon as SSE-enabled rather than 3dnow-enabled you would see huge speedups.
He apparently worked with AMD trying to incorporate this into the Q3 codebase, and Carmack refused for some reason. Anyway, this is worth a story !
I've talked to a couple of people who worked on adding 3dnow support to Quake, and if I understand them correctly, there is no 3DNOW/SSE support at all for the Athlon series of processors in Quake3. If correct this seems like a massive omission on ID's part that would bias Q3 benchmarks towards Intel chips bigtime.
rms
I think this guy is worth talking to. He argues that Quake3 is very biased toward Intel chips and if it simply detected the athlon as SSE-enabled rather than 3dnow-enabled you would see huge speedups.
He apparently worked with AMD trying to incorporate this into the Q3 codebase, and Carmack refused for some reason. Anyway, this is worth a story !
I've talked to a couple of people who worked on adding 3dnow support to Quake, and if I understand them correctly, there is no 3DNOW/SSE support at all for the Athlon series of processors in Quake3. If correct this seems like a massive omission on ID's part that would bias Q3 benchmarks towards Intel chips bigtime.
rms