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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!portal.austin.ibm.com!awdprime.austin.ibm.com!anson
From: anson@austin.ibm.com (Chad Anson)
Subject: Re: Advice needed: Matrox or ATI?
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Message-ID: <CtwxpE.4pxH@austin.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 15:00:50 GMT
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References: <CtvEED.M3E@ucdavis.edu> <ostrander.7.135.000F95AE@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> <31jn55$leq@sol.cms.uncwil.edu> <31kgn5$584@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
Organization: IBM Austin
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In article <31kgn5$584@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>,
Sean P Mullen <spmst11+@pitt.edu> wrote:
>
>DO NOT get the ET4000w32p card, I have one and hate it. Go Mach 64, I'm
>getting one ASAP. With the Mach 64, you can go 16.8 million colors at
>1280x1024 resolution. That's as fast as they go.
>I have a Pentium 90 with the ET4000w32p and doom is extremely jumpy. I was
>*very* disappointed about this point.
>
>
That is really odd. I have an ET4000w32p card, with a DX2-66 VLB w/8megs
of RAM. The only time I ever notice jumpiness was when I pulled out 4
megs of ram to loan to a friend. Other than that it was always perfectly
smooth at full screen and high detail.
Maybe you are referring to the PCI version. I have read though that the PCI
version is faster in DOS than the VLB version. Oh well, there may be other
factors affecting your FPS.
Note: I have played Doom on a range of machines from a 486SX/33 ISA to
a P90/PCI, so I know what "perfectly smooth" is and isn't.
Chad Anson
chadan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu :: mail to austin.ibm.com will bounce