Can you tell me why they are so bad under DOS? Is it possible that the
Win95 version would run better with an ATI?
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Can you tell me why they are so bad under DOS? Is it possible that the
Win95 version would run better with an ATI?
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http://www.racesimcentral.net/
: Simply put (just like Nascar) if you don't have a Pentium, don't bother
: with the SVGA mode. I have a DX4-100, 16 mb RAM, ATI Graphics Xpression
: VLB graphics card and even with a clean boot I got ch-ch-choppy performance
: unless pretty well all the graphics are turned off (and no, the UniVBE
: driver didn't work with my graphics card - it detected fine but the frame
: rate was worse).
While the ATI cards with the Mach chipset are good under windows, they
sadly are one of the worst cards you can get for dos-based games.
Sorry, but with that card you won't get a fluid framerate even with a
pentium 200...
Only the Millenium has overcome this problem.
Ralf
>While the ATI cards with the Mach chipset are good under windows, they
>sadly are one of the worst cards you can get for dos-based games.
More garbage.
And I gather you own one right?
rms
I'll add two hints to fastest mach64 bencchmarks:
Use univbe51a, which was specifically released to cover
the mach64, and also PCI owners should get the utility
ctpci.zip and use it to disable burst mode. The mach64
is not happy with burst mode on and doing this will bump
you 3dbench scores by several points.
rms
> I'll add two hints to fastest mach64 bencchmarks:
> Use univbe51a, which was specifically released to cover
> the mach64, and also PCI owners should get the utility
> ctpci.zip and use it to disable burst mode.
Personally I can't believe thet other cards are soooo much faster than
my ATI Mach64 as the original post implied. ICR2 runs with full
graphics at Laguna Seca very well, with the only tricky spot being at
the sharp S-bend(s). If this is poor then I would love to try
something else. Mixed with my complete lack of problems running it
with a variety of OSs means I'm happy.
Stuart
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> I'll add two hints to fastest mach64 bencchmarks:
> Use univbe51a, which was specifically released to cover
> the mach64, and also PCI owners should get the utility
> ctpci.zip and use it to disable burst mode. The mach64
> is not happy with burst mode on and doing this will bump
> you 3dbench scores by several points.
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> >What garbage. The mach64 is within 10% of any card out there.
> I'll add two hints to fastest mach64 bencchmarks:
> Use univbe51a, which was specifically released to cover
> the mach64, and also PCI owners should get the utility
> ctpci.zip and use it to disable burst mode. The mach64
> is not happy with burst mode on and doing this will bump
> you 3dbench scores by several points.
> >rms
mho
Hi I got P5-100 with S3 Trio 64, 16Mram.. I played the game will most of the
texture turned off.. coz I think the min framerate for me is at least 20fps.
Anything less than that just doesn't do the fun.. or we should play Ridge racer
on the PSX to get a feeling of 60fps.
Rgds,
Bernard.
: : Simply put (just like Nascar) if you don't have a Pentium, don't bother
: : with the SVGA mode. I have a DX4-100, 16 mb RAM, ATI Graphics Xpression
: : VLB graphics card and even with a clean boot I got ch-ch-choppy performance
: : unless pretty well all the graphics are turned off (and no, the UniVBE
: : driver didn't work with my graphics card - it detected fine but the frame
: : rate was worse).
: While the ATI cards with the Mach chipset are good under windows, they
: sadly are one of the worst cards you can get for dos-based games.
: Sorry, but with that card you won't get a fluid framerate even with a
: pentium 200...
: Only the Millenium has overcome this problem.
Oops, sorry. I mixed the names Matrox and Mach....
The Mach chips are good under dos, while the Matrox cards (exception: millenium)
are very slow.
Again, sorry.
Ralf
Well I tried your 2 hints with No Difference. I have a P5-90 with a PCI
ATI Mach64 card with 2mb of ram. First of all there is no way to use
univbe with the linear framebuffer enabled with the Mach64 in ICR2.
There is something screwy with the way ICR2 loads the driver. I have
been able to load the 51a driver with the 51 univbe.exe program (had to
hex out the "a" after the 51 in the driver file). No difference.
I tried ctpci & ctpci2x and tried all kinds of combinations of turning
things on and off. Most made no difference (unless I messed with the
memory transfer settings and things got worse). Nothing made an
increase in either 3dBench or univbe's profile numbers.
The best my 3dBench score ever got was 71.4 (normal). Even running
the program I got with my computer (mergeon.exe) which is supposed to
force burst mode doesn't change the 3dBench score.
I have a sneaky suspicion the SciTech Software says that univbe supports
the mach64 series only because it doesn't BLOW-UP. It may not cause any
problems, but it certainly doesn't make it work any better.
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