Very impressive work you┤ve done here. I have a P200 MMX with a CL 8 Mb Voodoo 2 board with 64 Mb RAM. I play a lot in my spare time, actually it┤s my prime time, and have been playing Unreal a lot lately. Sadly
my computer isn┤t quite up to the game (as well as Quake II anyway). Even with the new drivers and the TMU patch from 3fingers, or whatever his name is, I couldn┤t get the timedemo 02 up to more than around 21 fps.
I┤m by no means an expert on computers, but without changing any settings, applying your program and recommandations, I got a solid 28 fps. Not only that, but the gameplay is now almost as smooth as Quake II, and
absolutely playable. You just saved me a new computer, well at least for another 6 months anyway. Thanks.
Lars Krag
Oh, by the way, should you ever do an OS on your own, I┤ll be first in line to pick one up.
TESTIMONY #2 (from JKhan here on the board)
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Its really great, APK's tuning program really does work, it boosted my Quake 1 framerate (intimedemo demo2.dem (I erased 1 by mistake )) from 49.9 to 57.8. Its so great all my games are consistently running much smoother on my Pentium 200 80 ram. Just wanted to thank you APK its a great program, and tell everybody else to try it out. I'm
not sure of its location cuz he e-mailed it to me.
Testimony #3
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Hey Alex, this is Ash (ChronoKnight)
I got that tuner of your's, it Rocks!!!!!!!!
Running Q2 in eccess of 35-40 FPS!!!
I'm running a Pure3D (In NT 4.0 with the DX5 drivers)
I know you apreciate these e-mails so I though I would send my thanks ^_^
Thanks again,
Ash
Testimony #4
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I had serious cache problems in the past, and its cleared up a little. I used your tuning engine and it helped a lot...
and
Daniel
posted 08-30-98 08:13 PM EST (US)
I just downloaded your new 98++ tuning engine, I used it and my fps in quake 2 went past 60 to 75-85! What a piece of work this engine is. All other tweaking programs just made my fps go down. Keep up the good work!
Daniel
Daniel, 3dfiles Message Board user
Testimony #5
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Helza
posted 08-30-98 10:38 AM EST (US)
btw. I love your program I got a p200 and
i get 5 ftp more in Quake2...
AND
Hey APK..
I used to run your Tuning program on
my old PC a P 200 with a 8 MB Voodoo2 card...
and got about 5 frames extra in Quake2..
At least it's better then nothing...
but on my new computer a PII 450 with
Voodoo2 12 MB SLI, what did you think I get..?
how about a increase of 45....yes 45 frames..
how the hell is that possible...I went from
59,5 FPS to 104,5 and that in 1024 X 786
and that's with 3D Fingers Highest performance config...
somehow it just blew away Quake 2....
you really did a great job at that one...
Testimony #6
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Logan
posted 08-30-98 02:25 PM EST (US)
I think its great work, and what else do you get for nothing?
Testimony #7
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Lethal Pencil
posted 09-01-98 05:41 PM EST (US)
APK,
I think your program worked miracles on my computer! It improved my glquake fps by 18!!! ....now is that amazing or what! well done with the program....and yes...i agree with king stud, an uninstall would be a nice feature. But i have no plans to uninstall it!
Lethal-Pencil
Testimony #8
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Subject:
Excellent utility : 3Dfx tuner
Date:
Wed, 2 Sep 1998 01:17:54 +0100
From:
"Mark" <mark@gameslog.com>
To:
<alexkowalski@inetnow.net>
Hello,
Congratulations on a really excellent bit of software; 3Dfx tuner. I used to use your memory defragmenter also though after I formatted I'm not quite sure where it went. The vcache and cd-rom cache utility is also a great
touch
...
Thanks for a great utility (I'll try not to lose this one)
Mark
www.gameslog.com
Testimony #9
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Subject:
Maybe you can help
Date:
Wed, 02 Sep 1998 19:25:55 -0700
From:
Zilla <paul3@netcom.ca>
To:
alexkowalski@inetnow.net
First off APK for 3DFX is outstanding Man!!
Zilla
Testimony #10
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Paul
posted 08-18-98 11:59 PM ET (US)
You may also want to try the APK Tweak program available from www.3dfiles.com
(utilities section) this program makes simple work of all the various 3dfx card tweaks
(registry, environment settings, and autoexec.bat/config.sys settings) There are a
LOT of changes made to the registry with this program. One of which may solve
your framerate problem. Run the program and look in the registry under (hkey local
machine/software/3dfx interactive/voodoo2/ and then check the dos and glide
settings for the tweaks. You never know, you could get lucky. I thought I had q2
maxed out on my machine. I ran this program and got an extra 3.9 fps in timedemo1
without changing a single thing in the game. Every bit counts. Good Luck.
Testimony #11
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Brad
posted 09-17-98 02:04 PM EST (US)
Got your program. Had to disable bp24, that was giving me trouble with the cards.. at 70 refresh rate I got a 10fps increase cards set at 95Mhz. Your prograns a keeper..
Is it me or is this site slow to load. takes forever!!
Testimony #12
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Jurik \"Eagle\" Ristjouw wrote:
Hi there,
I do not know you in person, but I just wanted to say that APKTweak is the best...
Here are my results, done on my :
intel P200MMX,
Matrox Mystique 4MB,
Diamond Monster 3D2 8MB
Quake 1 timedemo demo2:
without tweak : 59fps
with tweak : 83fps!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
- SSTV2_REFRESH at 75
- SSTV2GRXCLK at 95
without cooling yet
I don't write a lot of comment, but I've seen no program do so much as this one
thanx a lot, and please keep me informed about updates....
jurik@bart.nl
Testimony #13
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GERMAN TRANSLATION FOLLOWS
DEUTSCHE UEBERSETZUNG FOLGT
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Dear Sirs,
PC-WELT would like to put your software
APK 3DFx Tuning Engine 98++
on CD. It will be distributed with the next issue of PC-WELT. If you
agree please send us a short e-mail to agree@pcwelt.com.
You can also send us a fax.
Best wishes
Anja Smeilus
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Editorial office
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Germany
Phone +49-89-36086-297
Fax +49-89-36086-459
E-Mail agree@pcwelt.com
PC-WELT
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for advanced users. With 373.119 sold copies (audited Q3/98 by IVW)
PC-WELT is the best selling monthly pc-magazine in Europe.
GERMAN TRANSLATION
DEUTSCHE UEBERSETZUNG
--------------------
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
die PC-WELT moechte Ihre Software
APK 3DFx Tuning Engine 98++
auf die Heft-CD der naechsten Ausgabe brennen. Dafuer brauchen wir
Ihr Einverstaendnis. Bitte schicken Sie uns eine kurze E-Mail an
agree@pcwelt.com oder ein Fax.
Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Anja Smeilus
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IDG Magazine Verlag GmbH
Redaktion PC-WELT
Brabanter Str. 4
80805 Muenchen
Tel. 0 89 - 3 60 86-297
Fax 0 89 - 3 60 86-459
E-Mail agree@pcwelt.com
PC-WELT
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ein Fachmagazin fuer fortgeschrittene PC-Anwender. Mit einer
verkauften Auflage von 373.119 Exemplaren (IVW 3/98) ist die PC-WELT
der meist verkaufte PC-Monatstitel in Europa.
TESTIMONY #14
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From: Jean-Francois LeBlanc
Subject: APK 3dFx Tuning Engine-Comments
To:alexkowalski@mindspring.com
Hello Alex
I would just like to comment on your 3DFX utility, APK 3dFx Tuning
Engine 98++. Before useing this program, i couldn't figure out what was
wrong. I mean my system isn't that bad (200MMX,32MB,Voodoo2 12MB)but it
ran games at about 20-25fps. I downloaded your program from
www.winfiles.com (as to your request) and now my games run at over
30fps. I'm very satisified with your product, and come payday I will
register to show my love for this program.
Thanks Again!!!
Frenchy
TESTIMONY #15
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Hey man. I just want to tell you that your program is the one that
gives the edge. I bounced my FPS on Quake 1 from 60 to 89 FPS on
timedemo 1 & 2. Im running a P2 412 (4 x 103), 128mb ram (pc100), 12mb
Mon 3d 2. ALL i HAVE TO SAY IS KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. I've got your
page marked.
Tim Kanive
TESTIMONY #16
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Alexander Peter Kowalski wrote:
Oh,
ItÆll go well! I raised my system 25 frames per second on GLQuake (from 50fps to 75fps!!!) and on Quake II, I went from 22 frames per second to 40 frames per second!
These are increases of 25 and 18... huge percetages!!! 50% and 30+ % increases on both games with NO flexing or screen idiosyncracies!
Be sure the first time you run it to disregard the tiny error, run the backup button first!
Then shut it down with the exit button, and restart it and tune!
APK
Phil Hall wrote in reply (regarding the efficacy of the program in Service Release #4):
I just retuned using your program. It works! With my system (a PII 333 with 64MB ram and a CL V2) and making only ôconservativeö changes I got a 2.75 fs improvement in quake 2.
IÆm going to recommend this program to everyone I know!
Phil Hall
PS you can use this as another testimonial is you like.
TESTIMONY #17
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Hi Alex.
I just wanted to tell you that I downloaded your 3DFX Tuner last night and then tried Freespace The Great War with it.
Although I have no way of telling what my old versus new frame rates are, I noticed a huge performance increase. Previously, I had bog downs running the game on my Voodoo2 equipped AMD PR166 with 48 meg ram. Things were so silky smooth and fast (Lightning FAST!!!) that I actually had trouble keeping fighters in my gunsights. I have to learn not to overcompensate when I'm flying.
Later today I am going to try Prophecy and Baldurs Gate and see if they smooth out any.
Thank you for such a wonderfully fast tuning for a great video card.
James Macarthur
james.macarthur2@sympatico.ca
TESTIMONY #18
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Hi there,
I just thought I'd add my testimony to your tweaking program. I ran
your tweaker, changed JUST ONE option (refresh rate, change from 60 to
75) and guess what? I jumped FIFTEEN fps in Falcon4!!
Normally I'd get 18 to 20 FPS in the cockpit view, but after changing
the refresh rate, it upped to 35-44fps! And when I switched over to the
virtual cockpit view, normally I'd get about 25 to 35fps but now I am
getting 55 to 65fps!
I don't know why when I changed the values manually in the past, the
framerate still sucked. Probably because all I did were just batch file
changes. I didn't touch the registry nor did I create a Voodoo2.ini
file.
Anyway, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
ps: I know it's not Quake but us flight-simmers use Falcon 4 as a
benchmark just like Quakers use Quake as a benchmark for framerates :)
pps: You don't have to reply to this email if you don't want to.. I
know you must get alot of emails thanking you for this util. By the
way, your homepage at mindspring is gone...
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Why I wrote it
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I am an NT user who loves GLQuake, Quake II, and Hexen II / GLHexen... and I am alone, right? Now way! I was reading the
information given to users at www.3dfxmania.com on how to "overclock" your 3dfx boards and drivers thru software parameter
tuneability of drivers for boards like Diamond Monster 3d.
I used the settings and indeed, things sped up drastically... only problem was, it was a manually done pain in the behind...
Computers were designed to automate things, not make them complex... read on.
Being a Win32 Senior Software Engineer, I decided to design one that was better than anyone else's out there for NT (or 95 and 98
for that matter!). NT does a better job of everything including OpenGL and 3dFx. I began to see tweakers for this stuff, but it
was not up to my standards... things like batch file generators or programs only for autoexec.bat and DOS/Windows95. Nothing for NT...
Well, the wait is over...
The APK 3dFX Tuning Engine for NT (and since release 5.0, for 95/98 as well) is here! It directly poles the Environment in NT Memory
thru the Win32 API and pokes it back to place the settings into memory for instant use. Not only that, but it places those settings
there for future reuse and allows tuning on the fly of all settings for 3dFX and OpenGL enhanced boards and drivers!
Created with Borland Delphi 3.0 32-bit code and the Win32 API for speed and performance!
It also includes a Quake Help file with all the necessary settings for GLQuake and also many error trappers and redundancies for
checking your settings. It allows you to reboot 95/98/NT also after making changes should you wish to, or list all your System
information for reference for helping you make your tuning decisions.
