Wish I could say the same bout you, however there is nothing entertaining
about what you're writing. It's just SAD to witness a man arguing plain
futility and trying to make it out as the truth.
Doesn't matter one bit when speaking about *3DMark*. You can't, repeat:
*CAN'T*, compare non-TnL performance out of a TnL-enabled/optimized
application on TnL-enabled/optimized hardware by disabling TnL on said
program/hardware. You just get bogus numbers from doing that.
That's not what I said, dude. (And you accuse ME of lacking reading skills?)
What I said is that you don't get any meaningful numbers from doing so.
Anyway, the only thing 3dmark2001 measures is 3dmark2001 performance, not
d3d performance, TnL performance or 3D performance in general for that
matter. It ONLY measures 3dmark2001 performance, which makes it a pretty
useless benchmark, a position I've maintained for, like, forever.
It's easy to run, I'll give you that. But it's not useful for any kind of
performance comparisons. You don't do a lot of playing 3dmark2001, do you?
So why use it as a performance comparison tool? It's a fake benchmark,
pretty to look at and nice for testing 3D card stability but not much else.
"Monkey's"? Monkey's WHAT?
Please make more grammatical sense than this.
If you didn't get the numbers to prove it, your system is screwed up. It's
that easy.
GF3 is two years more recent than the V5 (architectually, it's more than
that, since V5 basically is two TNT2s stuck on one board), if you seriously
believe the two products are equal, then you are more screwed up than I'd
like to imagine.
Translation: "Blah, blah, blah. Yadda-yadda. I'm full both of myself and hot
air."
But they're not on EQUAL footing. GF3 has both greater raw fillrate and
greater fillrate efficiency. So they're really not equal at all.
But you're not putting them on EQUAL footing by disabling hardware TnL in
3dmark2001. That's what I've been trying to tell you for a while now, but
you seem incapable of changing your dim views once you've gotten an idea in
your head. Typical zealot behaviour, you desperately want to see your aging,
obsolete hardware on the same level as the latest and greatest of today, and
you look everywhere, turn every rock in search of evidence to back up such a
pre-made conclusion.
Too bad it's all a house built of playing cards. It can all go *poof* just
by someone breathing on it.
Where's your evidence to back up such a claim?
MS has no say in what is, or isn't present in the OGL page of the video
properties. It's not for them to decide such things, and hence they don't.
So there.
Just like your head, perhaps?
That could have been a creative insult, except for the fact I use telephaty,
not antennas. Like I said, *poof*.
There are examples of software written that runs poorly on one product or
another, but as ANYONE with half a brain could tell you, that does not make
a soon three year old piece of hardware from a bankrupt company level with
the best of today. It's a SOFTWARE issue, not a hardware one.
You're going to play Nascar for the rest of your life? By all means, go
right ahead, keep your V5 forever and never switch to anything newer and
better. The rest of us probably don't have such limited vision...
You are so scary, man.
...No. Not really. Pathetic is more like it. I envision you much like an
irate armchair quarterback sitting in front of the TV, screaming with glee
at the sight of George Dubya firing $2 million missiles at $10 empty tents
and hitting a camel in the butt, while the voice commentator delivers
patriotic statement of how great America is.
Anyway, when will those US (ex) military/CIA officers, presidents etc be
arrested and prosecuted?
Bye!
/HB.