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  • Quake 3 3Dnow! optimizations...

    whenever i play the Quake 3 test 1.08 or earlier, it detects my CPU during that blue screen as an "AMD 3Dnow! enhanced CPU...", but in Quake3 final, it only detects it as an "x86 Pentium2/MMX" CPU. what's up with that? can i manually set my CPU as a 3Dnow! CPU? i have a K6-3 400 @ 112x4.0...

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    anthrax32@yahoo.com

    System specs:
    AMD K6-III 400 at 112x4.0 at 2.3V
    Asus P5A
    96 MB SD-RAM (the old 66 MHz... stable enough tho =)
    Matrox G400 AGP 32MB Dual-Head
    Diamond Sonic Impact S90 PCI
    Linksys LNE100TX WOL PCI Ethernet adapter
    Processor is a peltier/Alpha cooling combo, avg. temp is around 85 F.

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    -Campbell "aNtHrAx323" Krueger
    anthrax32@yahoo.com

    System specs:
    Dual Celeron 400s (week 52 i think) @ 588 @ 2.05v (air-cooled, no peltiers)
    Abit BP6 (w/ QQ BIOS and HPT366 1.22 BIOS)
    128 MB of PC133 SD-RAM (Athlon-grade)
    Matrox G400 AGP 32MB Dual-Head
    Diamond Monster Sound MX300
    3Com 3C905C PCI w/ WOL
    Western Digital Expert 20.5 GB ATA/66 7200 RPM drive

    the aXion gaming network

  • #2
    They
    1) dropped the 3DNow! support for some issues or,
    2) the CPU string given is general or,
    3) there never was 3DNow! used.

    In all the cases, there's nothing one can do about that. I'm having hard time believing argument #1 because I saw no such a drop in performance that it should have caused.

    I think there's no 3DNow! used, and they've never had. That's why they probably removed that separate message for AMD, so that users wouldn't think it's somehow different.

    Sounds resonable explanation to me.

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    B

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    • #3
      I'm not really sure about Quake 3 (I'm not playing this kind of games) but... Quake 3: Arena (don't know if that's the same) is supposed to be 3dNow! optimised: <a href="http://www1.amd.com/products/cpg/3dnow/optimized/"> http://www1.amd.com/products/cpg/3dnow/optimized/ </a>

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      Odyn

      With k6-2/300, Viper II Z200
      searchin for truth
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      • #4
        The so-called "3DNow! optimized" can be different in term of how good the optimization goes. If you're not very particular, any application/games developed and compiled using latest compiler/linker can be the so-called "3DNow! optmized", just because the compiler/linker support 3DNow! instructions. Such generic optimization will not have very good results. Anyway, it's better than nothing.


        KJ Liew

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