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Hi there,

This is my setup,
Pentium 133,
32mb edo ram,
8x cd drive etc,etc
and a very basic trident graphics card. Knowing that my graphics card
was probably letting me down I upgraded to the ET6000 based Grafixstar
600, running normal benchmark tests the card flew compared to the old
trident. I then booted up the great F1GP2 and compared my old
framerate of 8.8, with the new one of 9.6, a fantastic increase of 0.8
:-(

(These framerates was with all the detail switched on)

I tried a number of windows and dos games and could not see any
noticeable improvement.
So unless I`m working with spreadsheets, CAD or paint packages I can
see no use for a new graphics card and the only way to increase
framerates is a processor upgrade (raw power).

Have you had any similar experiences?
Or have you any comments?

BTW I am using the correct video display drivers.

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Best regards,
Dan.

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 DA> This is my setup,
 DA> Pentium 133,
 DA> ET6000 based Grafixstar
 DA> I then booted up the great F1GP2 and compared my old framerate
 DA> of 8.8, with the new one of 9.6, a fantastic increase of 0.8 :-(

I replaced my Trident 9440 PCI gfx card with a Hercules Dynamite 128 (ET-60=
00). Framerate in SVGA with my GP2 gfxsettings, jumped from 21.3 to >25.6.=
 And the processor occupance decreased a lot in the game. My processor is=
 a P-120. So, clearly a gain.

 DA> BTW I am using the correct video display drivers.

For GP2? There are none...

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 Henrik Hjortnaes
      AMIGA
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However, although this did increase the framerate a little in dos, the
main increase in speed is in windows. I think you'll find that virtually
every new or recent card that is half decent is a windows based
accelerator of some sort. I have yet to see a "dos accelerator". Some of
the quicker dos cards I have had experience with are :

1. Matrox Millenium
2. Tseng Labs ET4000 W32 PCI 2meg
3. Tseng Labs ET6000
4. Diamond 3D
5. Hercules Dynamite

Nothing can compare to a cpu upgrade though.

I'd be interested to hear from anyone who is running a Cyrix P200+,
since they have a 75MHz bus. Theoretically they should fly.

Regards,

Michael Hansen

Anyway there's a nice site at
http://www.zip.com.au/~davidg/GP2/gp2pop.html where you'll find a lot
of 'benchmark' results for GP2 on various systems. GP2 seems a lot
more CPU hungry than video speed hungry, but I disgress...

Karim

Sincerely, Karim

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Anyway there's a nice site at
http://www.zip.com.au/~davidg/GP2/gp2pop.html where you'll find a lot
of 'benchmark' results for GP2 on various systems. GP2 seems a lot
more CPU hungry than video speed hungry, but I disgress...

Karim

Sincerely, Karim

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Have fun,
  Jorge

1) As others said, don't believe that recommended framerate.  Usually, it is
too HIGH (I know you didn't want to hear that).  I find that if I set it to
the recommended value, the "processor occupancy" is usually above
100%, resulting in real elapsed time significantly greater than lap time
(ie, the game is moving in slow motion).

2) However, that 9.6 sounds absurdly low for a P133 with an ET6000.  Hmmm,
maybe mine does get that low if I set everything to ON (including clouds and
all textures in mirrors).

3) Yes, an ET6000, though it benchmarks magnificently, doesn't really buy
you much over a standard S3 Trio (or 868, or many other S3 chipped) based
video card.  I compared the STB Lightspeed 128 (ET6000), Millenium, and my
old 868-based Stealth64.  Virtually no difference in F1GP2 (or Air Warrior,
or ATF, or an m1a2 beta...).  The 128 typically did from 0 to 5% better, but
not much more.