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I still find D3D to give better performance and image quality that
OpenGL in N2K2 which is not the norm for GF cards, I believe.  I'd
certainly be interested to know what OGL setting people around here
use...

Thanks again, Greger,

Mark
Reading, UK

Both are definitely disabled on my system. The "SiSoft Sandra" util
says that there's no Side Band Addressing support so I guess that's
because of my GF2 MX then? It also says there's support for FW
transfers but I don't know if it's enabled on my system at the moment.

Well, the system performance is what I would expect so I'll worry
about these later when/if I get my GF4.

I'll take up that offer one day! :)

On my old system I had better performance with OGL, haven't even tried
D3D since I got the new mobo and CPU.

I use the GeForce Tweaker (http://www.guru3d.com/) for changing the
OGL settings etc. I don't think I have any "special" tweaks. Most
important fast linear-mipmap-linear filtering enabled, v-sync off and
maximum number of frame buffers 3. FSAA off. I've changed the level of
texture detail to -1.3, which makes the graphics a little crisper.

 - Greger

Ok, I just ran 3DMark2001se on my system.  It's an Athlon 1.2 with a V5 card.
Benchmark was a 'sizzling'....

1368.

There has to be something wrong here.  I'd think that the V5 would out-perform
the GF2.  My *system* is certainly faster that your 866...
Anyone out there have the same CPU/vid combo with better results?

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   Whats wrong is YOU are using a DX8 based test for a card that does not
officially support dx8.  Yes there are drivers out there that are compatible
with dx8 but they do not enable all of dx8's features nor do they improve
the performance of the card.
  I seem to remember when they first updated the benchmark to 2001 they
specifically warned against using older cards with that new test suite.
  USE the 3dmark 2000 version and you will get a more realistic number to
grade your system with.
dave(oops I said it again)henrie

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