3d Card Performance with 3d games

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2 total messages Started by la... Lasse Kouri Thu, 18 Jan 1996 00:00

#2634

Author: la... Lasse Kouri
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 00:00

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What about performance of these new 3d videocards??
Has anyone tested 3d games (Example 3D version of Nascar racing with Matrox 
MGA Millenium, machine would be Pentium 120 8-16Mb RAM).
Can you feel the speed and testify FAST and SMOOTH framerate ALL the detail
levels on (SVGA settings). As we all know the normal version of Nascar Racing
is rather jerky in, well...lets say in 486/66 with Cirrus Logic Local Bus 
Videocard.
Thank you for your answers in advance!!

Re: 3d Card Performance with 3d games

#2635

Author: Jacob
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 00:00

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Lasse Kouri wrote:
> 
> What about performance of these new 3d videocards??
> Has anyone tested 3d games (Example 3D version of Nascar racing with Matrox
> MGA Millenium, machine would be Pentium 120 8-16Mb RAM).
> Can you feel the speed and testify FAST and SMOOTH framerate ALL the detail
> levels on (SVGA settings). As we all know the normal version of Nascar Racing
> is rather jerky in, well...lets say in 486/66 with Cirrus Logic Local Bus
> Videocard.

Well, I got a 3D Blaster (VL-BUS version) and on DX4/100 it runs Nascar 
very well way faster than Pentium 90 and even faster than P120. It is 
playable with full texture mapping. The other games especially Magic 
Carpet and Hi-Octane seem to been rushed so I don't think its good idea 
to judge the cards performance on these games. 

I think 3D Blaster should run Quake resonably well in lo-res, not to 
sure about hi-res. MC and Hi-Octane's hi-res rate rates are all that 
great (no idea why no lo-res options in the game). WHat I mean 
reasonably is on your PC with 3DB is should be about as fast as P100. 

Of course if you got something like P133 with better card (such as 
Verite) Quake should really fly. Fro what I've read Verite chipsets 
should like the one to get if you got PCI. For VL-BUS based machines 3DB 
is the only choice..

Jacob,

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