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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: Does this sound strange to you?
Sender: news@austin.ibm.com (News id)
Message-ID: <Ctwy32.1CMD@austin.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 15:09:01 GMT
References: <31j8ej$5o3@news.u.washington.edu> <CtvE45.Lt4@ucdavis.edu>
Organization: IBM Austin
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In article <CtvE45.Lt4@ucdavis.edu>, <ez042279@dale.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>Daniel Pasco (phsthpok@u.washington.edu) wrote:
>: I have a 486DX 33 with a 256k cache, 8M of ram, and a 1M vga card.
>: 18.1 FPS on 3Dbench.
>
>: Is it slow in here, or is it just me? Do other people get similar speeds with
>: similar hardware? I know I've seen 40+ fps reported on this board.
>
>Yes, that is really bad. My friend has a 486/33 vlb (cheesy made in
>china), 1mb genoa 8500 vlb video, and he get 26.3 from 3dbench. he also
>has 256k cache. I have a 486/66 with 8mb, 256k, vlb et4000 1mb video and
>I get 50fps!!! Something is wrong. Is you video card a trident? Cirrus
>logic? that is most likely the problem.
>dom
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A 1M vga card, eh? That is probably your problem. However, if you have an
ISA motherboard, even a superexpensive ISA video card, won't up your frame
rate too terribly much.
On my old Packard Smell 486/33sx ISA, with NO cache, I used to get like
16.7. I put in a ET4000/w32i and it gets 20.0. Not a big improvement, but
noticeable.
Cirrus logic is not bad. I got pretty decent results with a CL5426 --
same 3dbench frame rate, but I got a better deal on the ET4000/w32i.
You will never find a DX33 with 40fps. Some DX2-66's don't even get 40fps.
If you are worried, check the comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video newsgroup
for one of the 3d-bench score compilations.
Chad Anson
chadan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu :: mail to austin.ibm.com will bounce