GPL - Bashee vs. V2

Hello, I am still wondering about what to do with my hardware problem described earlier in my post about Thriller 3D and PIII 450. I totally forgot the Banshee. I've done some researh on dejanews, but I dare to fire some questions anyway. 1) Do the Banshee outperform V2 in GPL on 800x600? The Banshee can do 1024x768, how big performance hit ? 2) AFAIR the 1.1 patch should get rid of the texture problems. Does it work ? Thanks a lot for any input. And again, the Voodoo3 2000 PCI is not compatible with my system....*** -- Olav K. Malmin remove spam when replying

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> Hello, > I am still wondering about what to do with my hardware problem described > earlier in my post about Thriller 3D and PIII 450. > I totally forgot the Banshee. I've done some researh on dejanews, but I dare > to fire some questions anyway. > 1) Do the Banshee outperform V2 in GPL on 800x600? The Banshee can do > 1024x768, how big performance hit ? > 2) AFAIR the 1.1 patch should get rid of the texture problems. Does it work ? > Thanks a lot for any input. And again, the Voodoo3 2000 PCI is not compatible > with my system....***

I use Voodoo Banshee at 1024x768 but I have to turn down a lot of details to get 36fps. However, the performance is identical at 800x600 compared to 1024x768 at a given level of detail, so I suspect that the limiting factor in my case is the processor (P233).

Yes! Almost none, when v-sync is disabled Yes The Banshee is far superior to the V2 in GPL, I know, because I have tried both extensively. K.S. Br?nnick

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> Hello, > I am still wondering about what to do with my hardware problem described > earlier in my post about Thriller 3D and PIII 450. > I totally forgot the Banshee. I've done some researh on dejanews, but I dare > to fire some questions anyway. > 1) Do the Banshee outperform V2 in GPL on 800x600? The Banshee can do > 1024x768, how big performance hit ?

Don't know:) Yup - no blotches:) Running a Diamond Monster Fusion II 16MB PCI - quite decent, runnning in 800x600, hi res, lightning effects, smoke cars only in mirrors. Only run online, so I haven't tested FPS with AI. Matt/Birger, Also Norway -- --------------------------------- Matthew Birger Knutsen The Art of Legends; http://www.gpl.electra.no Cheek Racing Cars; http://www.cheekracing.electra.no

V2 does 1024x768 in GPL - the 800x600 limit is only for when z-buffer is used and GPL doesn't use the z-buffer hence 1024x768 is possible. I'm using a V2 (12MB Monster 3D II) + a P3-450 and in training mode this is more than enough to max out the fps at 36-37 with all details turned up to full (n.b. also have Soundblaster Live! which helps a bit). The "back of grid at Monaco" rating is down to around 18fps in this setup - though if I push the P3 to 600MHz (still experimenting but seems reasonably stable - PC133 memory helps!) this goes up to around 30fps. In the time I've had GPL I've progressed from AMD K6-200 + software graphics - 8 fps if I was luck! AMD K6-200 + V2 + everything on - 15-20fps AMD K6-200 + V2 + minimum graphics 800x600 - 25-30fps P3-450 + V2 + everything on 1024x768- 36 fps and I've been amazed at how much more control I feel I've had at each step up in frame rate + how moving back down the scale I notice that a display that had seemed smooth now feels very jumpy! I'm also wondering if with all the extra horsepower whether the physics modelling is working at a finer granularity. As for V2 vs Banshee - from what I recall reading the Banshee 3D performance is lower than the V2. One benefit is that it avoids using 1 PCI slots (V2 + 2D card) which may be a factor. work ? ?? may be wrong but I thought the texture problem only affected V3's Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

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> > Hello, > > I am still wondering about what to do with my hardware problem described > > earlier in my post about Thriller 3D and PIII 450. > > I totally forgot the Banshee. I've done some researh on dejanews, but I > dare > > to fire some questions anyway. > > 1) Do the Banshee outperform V2 in GPL on 800x600? The Banshee can do > > 1024x768, how big performance hit ? > Yes! Almost none, when v-sync is disabled > > 2) AFAIR the 1.1 patch should get rid of the texture problems. Does it > work ? > Yes > > Thanks a lot for any input. And again, the Voodoo3 2000 PCI is not > compatible > > with my system....*** > The Banshee is far superior to the V2 in GPL, I know, because I have tried > both extensively. > K.S. Br?nnick

Sorry to so dumb, but where is the v-sync setting? In GPL or on the Banshee software. -- Rob Yates Micro Graphics EASY AUCTION - Database Management software for Ebay Can you do without it? [link lost in import] FOUND IN THE LAND OF OZ http://users.netcon.net.au/ryates/index.htm

I'm using a Monster Fusion, and the sync setting is in Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced > Glide Settings. LOL. Zog snip