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   > Subject: Win95 and fram rates  
   > Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville  
   >
   >
   > I was wondering if anyone else has noticed the frame rates under Win95.
   > I ran 3dbench on my 486 DX2-80 with 8 megs of RAM with the old dos and
got
   > 30.3 fps.  Under Windows 3.1 I got around 20.x fps.  Under Win95 I get
25.6
   > when I run it directly through windows.  When i restart computer under
dos
   > mode I get the old 30.3.  I though with Win95 we were supposed to get
   > increased frame rates?  Doesn't look that way to me.  Has anyone else
   > experienced this?
   >
   > Kel
   >
       3d bench is not optimized for 32 bit win95.  Why are your frame
rates so low.  My 486dx266 with a 1mb old video card pulls a 3d bench
score of 50.0.   8 megs and only an S3 805 video chip.  A game set up for
win95 will run faster than most dos games.  But many other factors come
into play.
Dave Henrie

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   >    > I was wondering if anyone else has noticed the frame rates under
Win95  
   >    > I ran 3dbench on my 486 DX2-80 with 8 megs of RAM with the old dos
and  
   > got
   >    > 30.3 fps.  Under Windows 3.1 I got around 20.x fps.  Under Win95 I
   > get 25.6
   >    > when I run it directly through windows.  When i restart computer
under
   > dos
   >    > mode I get the old 30.3.  I though with Win95 we were supposed to
get
   >    > increased frame rates?  Doesn't look that way to me.  Has anyone
else
   >    > experienced this?
   >    >
   >    > Kel
   >    >
   >        3d bench is not optimized for 32 bit win95.  Why are your frame
   > rates so low.  My 486dx266 with a 1mb old video card pulls a 3d bench
   > score of 50.0.   8 megs and only an S3 805 video chip.  A game set up for
   > win95 will run faster than most dos games.  But many other factors come
   > into play.
   > Dave Henrie
       Here's some food to chew on... I got a different I/O board the
other day to run 2 hard drives and my ide cdrom.  Well after getting
everything back up and running, (luv the space I've got now...)  my 3d
bench results DROPPED from 50.0 to 43.5.  and the only change was to an
EIDE I/O board by Windbond....hmmmm.
Dave Henrie

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