[plug] Re: Nick Miller challenge (was Lexmark Printers)

[Simon Scott]

	Sounds good, but here's my experience.


	I run XFree 4.0.1 (or maybe 4.0.2, cant remember) and I have a g400
32M dual head. Under windows I get,despite a few second long pauses, around
30-40fps in hires 'everything' mode in Unreal Tournament.

	under Linux, things are different. Although Quake III runs close to
the speed of windows (mostly), UT just doesnt cut it. With a reduced res and
detail I still get a slower framerate. And when the scene becomes quite
complicated, I get MAJOR slowdowns (ie 6-7 fps) whereas under windows the
same scene would only slow down to 25-30 fps.

	I read on the xfree site that for G400 the driver still uses
software rendering for some things.

	I guess its just driver maturity, but it still stops me from
throwing away windows if I wanna play UT Tac Ops online :)






	From:	"Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" <tony at cantech.net.au> on
09-04-2001 11:25 AM
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	Subject:	Re: [plug] Re: Nick Miller challenge (was Lexmark
Printers)

	On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Jason Nicholls wrote:

	> Are you talking about ease of installation because driver-wise
things are
	> looking pretty good. The G400 support in XFree86 3.3.x (Utah-glx)
gives me
	> _better_ performance than windows and as far as I know, the
XFree86 4.x Nvidia
	> drivers offer performance on par with windows. Apparently the ATI
Raedon
	> performance is also very good since they have been willing to
provide the
	> programming specs.

	The Creative Banshee works well under X4.  Now I know this will
sound pittiful
	BUT on a p166mmx I get 25fps for QuakeIII.  Given that the minium
CPU is
	s'posed to be a pII233 I think I'm doing well.


	Yours Tony.

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