Unreal tour performance

[Danfoss]

hi,
just dl'ed utdemo and fired it up with my MAX....

it runs SUPER!!! i can play it online at 1280x1024 with everything set highest, 32 bit

thank you matrox...

system: cel300a@450 bx6 128mb G400MAX

Dan.

[violentg]

whooohooooo me toooooooooo

god after playing it for the last week on my voodoo i can really tell a difference in image quality!plays well 1024x768 everything on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


the shit

in some cases violence is the answer!


violentg

[Joel]

This thing looks and plays great on the G400 even at 1024x768x32bit with everything set to high.



Joel

[Maniac]

How are you guys getting great fps at that res? Do you all have Athlon 650's??

P.S. if by great you mean 15-20 then I'm there

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Celeron 300A@464 2.0V, Abit BH6 G400 16meg DH@150/200, Western Digital Expert 18gig, Ricoh mp7040A, Pioneer 6X DVD slot load, Motorola Cable Modem w/DEC ethernet card, Soundblaster 32PNP

[LAMFDTK]

I can only get it "fluid" @800x600 32bit
I wonder if the patch for the 3dfx version is different than the Newer full?

When are we playing? look at my post in the Game board...

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PIII-450@504, 128 HDSRAM, Asus P3BF, G400/32, SBLive!, Nokia 447Xi 17", oh yea, a nice floppy drive

[Genom]

I'm doing 41 fps average, 91 max, 27 min on most maps with 4 bots shooting it out, running 1024x768x32 with everything maxed out, on a P3-450~556 and tons of RAM.

This thing just became my second fave FPS. hell, I might even put in 5.25 drivers again sicne I doubt I'll be caring if Q3A runs like crap anymore with them.

[IceStorm]

Ok, so I got the patch (FINALLY) last night and fired it up:
1024x768x32bit, all details - sluggish.

1024x768x16bit, all details - better

1024x768x16bit, medium world detail, rest same - Faster still... almost V2 SLI speed.

800x600x16bit, all details - woo hoo!

I'll do more testing tonight, but here are my thoughts:

- It looks better on the G400 over the V2, no question.

- The medium world setting is great for network play - it really speeds things up. I can live without the pitted details on the wire mesh if it means I can frag people fster. :-)

- 32bit is darker than 16bit. 32bit and 16bit have almost no effect when the world details are set to medium. Crank it down a notch for the speed boost.

- 1280x1024x32bit REFUSES to run fullscreen. 1152x864x32bit works fine. Anyone know why? I already tried changing the z-buffer settings and the triple buffering settings - no go.

- The MOTION BLUR of the V2 is a hardware problem with the Voodoo2 chipset. It was fixed on the Voodoo3, in case anyone was wondering. This is as per Mark Rein, who was on the UT IRC channel last night. There is no bluring on the G400.

If you want to play this game fast, crank the resolution down to 800x600, set world and player details to medium, and leave it in 16bit. NEVER turn off the high-detail textures - the game looks like crap if you do, and you don't get much of a speed boost over just cranking the detail level down to medium.

This game is almost as fast as the V2 SLI rig in D3D, and looks incredible. If you're a gamer, feel confident that your G400 MAX can handle UT and hang with the Voodoo people out there.


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Primary System: PIII-540 (450@4.5x120), Soyo 6BA+ III, 256MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, G400 MAX in multi-monitor mode. V2 SLI rig. Two Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900u monitors, 3Com 3C905, SoundBlaster Live!, DeskTop Theater DTT2500 DIGITAL Speaker System (Sweeeeeet!), 2nd Parallel Port, WD AC41800 18GB HD, WD AC310100 10GB HD, Toshiba SD-M1212 6x DVD-ROM, HP 8100i CD-RW, Epson Stylus Pro, Sharp JX-9400 LJ-II compatible, OptiUPS PowerES 650, MS SideWinder Precision Pro USB joystick, Logitech 3-button mouse, Mitsumi keyboard, Win98 SE, Belkin OmniCube 4-port KVM

Secondary System: PII-266, Asus P2B BIOS 1008, 128MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, Millennium II, 3Com 3C590, ADSL Modem 640kbit down/90kbit up, 3Com 3C509, Mylex BT-930 SCSI card, Seagate 2GB Hawk, NEC 6x CD-ROM, Linux distro S.u.S.E. 6.1 (IP Masquerade works!)

Tertiary System: DFI G568IPC Intel 430HX chipset, P200MMX, 96MB of non-parity RAM, Millennium II, Intel Pro/100+ client NIC, SoundBlaster 16 MCD, Fujitsu 3.5GB HD, WD 1.2GB HD, Creative Dxr3 DVD decoder card, Hitachi GD-2500 6x DVD-ROM, Win98 SE

All specs subject to change.



[This message has been edited by IceStorm (edited 09-29-1999).]

[Ali]

Well, I cant get smooth play at 1024X768@32bit with everything on. at 16 bit colour its fine, but 32 seems to kill it (and make it darker).

I tried overclocking to 672 on my P3 and clocking the G400 to 220Mhz memory with powerstrip, and still not as fast as SLI, and it crashes pretty damn fast.

Im I mising something here? I was using the 3dfx demo, I uninstalled that, and installed the new demo. Playing under D3D with all standard settings except for the ones under preferences/other.

Also, how do you get your fps on it?

Ali (who should do a sig sometime)

[Micko]

Hey people, disable HUD and frames gooooeesss UP!

Try it!

[Nuno]

I get 30 fps average (smooth gameplay) at 1024x68x32 IF I disable detail textures. In gameplay there isn´t much time to stare at the walls, though...

[mgleason]

I'm running NT4 and getting 20fps average. High is about 25fps. This is all under DirectX 5 at 640x480x32bpp. Damn crappy NT Matrox drivers...oh well, it's playable.

[Nuno]

Considering UT is a Dx 7.0 game, I think it´s remarkable you managed to get it running in NT

[Grimace]

How about some meaningful numbers: Run the demo from this web page: http://www.voodooextreme.com/reverend/Main.html

On my G400MAX@160/PIII@500/128MB I get the following numbers: 32bit/High World Detail/High Actor Detail versus 16bit:

32/H/H 16/H/H
1024 19.54 23.5
800 22.94 24.6
640 22.83 25.03

The readme for the demo has a VooDoo3@180/PIII@620 at 16/H/H doing around 27fps. I would guess that 120 more MHz might put the G400MAX at the same level. Plus the game is glide based so I guess I shouldn't complain...

But if systems as decked out as these can't even break 30fps average in a demo with as many slow spots as this...

[Grimace]

Anyone try the demo yet?

[Ozymandis]

See on Voodooextreme-framerate is capped at whatever the original was run at- check it out-
demoplay wicked?noframecap
is how you need to run it. I will post my scores today.