| From: | Andy Thomson |
| Date: | 9 Apr 2000 at 09:33:02 |
| Subject: | Re: Problems with Warp3D 3.0 |
In reply to the mail from Hans-Joerg Frieden about Re: [3DWorld] Problems with Warp3D 3.0:
> On 8 Apr 2000, Andy Thomson wrote:
>
> > Workbench is now in 15bit 800x600, the demos in windows now display
> > properly. WarpTest still complains about a missing mode ID, but the
> > engine demo works and gives me a screen requester. Although the
I have dropped workbench to 8bit 800x600, just as a temp. measure.
> Does the engine demo actually work? You do have a CV64/3D, right? So
> 15 Bit workbench is ok, but the 800x600 might be a bit too big since
> the memory is so low...
The engine demo did work before, I get about 11-14 FPS on 800x600. Now
I have reduced the Workbench screen I am going to try the teapot demo
again. These is still no change in the FPS rate at 800x600 15bit, its
1.25 with or without hardware.
> > gldemos work, the teapot demo is faster when run using the no
> >hardware script? Running with hardware accel. should be several times
> >faster? What is wrong there are so many combinations of ENV
> > variables and tooltypes to try?
>
> try setting MESA/VFAST to 1. The ViRGE is really dog slow, it
> might come out that a PPC software-drawer is faster than that.
> This is definately true for Heretic II. On a ViRGE, nothin will get
> several times faster, only a bit faster...
I'll try setting VFAST but this seems to make no difference at all. I
am trying to get a CyberStorm PPC and Cybervision PPC but no one
stocks it at this time, and I have not seen a second hand one.