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The firing Squad Article is some Major false advertising. I have a p3-450@600mhz, running with 256mb Enhanced pc133 memory, ABit Bx6 REvision 2 mobo, Diamondmax 7200rpm ATA/66 HD
And i only saw a 10% Frame Rate increase in q3 timedemo 1. I was getting 41.5 FPS at High Quality setting with the res upped to 1024x768, Bilinear Filtering and Dynamic Lights, and Gibs off. With the turbo Drivers I am at 46.5 fps, under the same settings.
Turning any of those options onwill ower the framerate accordingly. As well as 32 bit z buffer under display properties options will lower the fps by 8 when enabled.
On another strange note, if i keep all the settings the same, and just drop the resolution to 800x600, i get a 20fps boot to 67 fps. In my limited knoledge of graphic engines, which doesnt make too much sense to me, 30 fps is a huge jump.
Anyhow, these turbo drivers are really not very helpful at 1024x768, granted an extra 5 fps is nice, its no where near the 30% advertised by Matrox nor those astronomically ridiculous numbers posted by firing squad.
THeres is no logical explaination for an almost 30fps difference in framerates on identical systems. And accodring to firing Squad, they had everything turned on under high quality at 1024x768to get 72fps.. I wonder sometimes if these people at these web sites just pull numbers out of their arse from time to time.
And i only saw a 10% Frame Rate increase in q3 timedemo 1. I was getting 41.5 FPS at High Quality setting with the res upped to 1024x768, Bilinear Filtering and Dynamic Lights, and Gibs off. With the turbo Drivers I am at 46.5 fps, under the same settings.
Turning any of those options onwill ower the framerate accordingly. As well as 32 bit z buffer under display properties options will lower the fps by 8 when enabled.
On another strange note, if i keep all the settings the same, and just drop the resolution to 800x600, i get a 20fps boot to 67 fps. In my limited knoledge of graphic engines, which doesnt make too much sense to me, 30 fps is a huge jump.
Anyhow, these turbo drivers are really not very helpful at 1024x768, granted an extra 5 fps is nice, its no where near the 30% advertised by Matrox nor those astronomically ridiculous numbers posted by firing squad.
THeres is no logical explaination for an almost 30fps difference in framerates on identical systems. And accodring to firing Squad, they had everything turned on under high quality at 1024x768to get 72fps.. I wonder sometimes if these people at these web sites just pull numbers out of their arse from time to time.
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