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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: On local bus, VGA cards, and games
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.214035.17286@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan1.021315.13461@newshost.lanl.gov> <1i2dbdINNa5e@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:40:35 GMT
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- In article <1i2dbdINNa5e@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> at608@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bob Rogers) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, masten@beta.lanl.gov (David A. Masten) says:
- >
- >>So I decided to do some comparisons using three games that give a readout
- >>of either framerate (Falcon3, F15III) or "processor occupancy" (World
- >>Circuit).
- >>
- >
- >[Much interesting info deleted]
- >
- >>I'm not saying don't get a local bus. Just saying it won't make a
- >>significant difference with your 320x200x256 games, which still dominate
- >>the market for many reasons (framerate considerations being a major one).
- >>It's probably still worth it for future compatibility sake, provided you
- >>get the VLB.
- >>
- >>Dave Masten
- >>masten@beta.lanl.gov
- >>
- >
- >Thanks, it's hard to get good game-related performance info like this.
- >
- >You might be interested to know that Diamond is about to introduct a VLB card
- >called the "Viper" which is supposed to blow away every other card on the
- >market in both DOS and Windows. A Diamond rep on GEnie says that his 66mhz
- >VLB system with the new card give 45+ frames per second using the "3DBENCH"
- >test program. For comparison, my 25mhz 486sx with SpeedStar+ gives 16.6.
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-
-
- Just so you guys know, the ATI Ultra Pro local bus card is
- supposed to be able to do full screen 1024x768 65k color
- full speed animation (30fps). I'm not sure how this works, but
- it has something to do with MS's new animation player.
-
- Myself, I see a pretty big difference between otherwise identical
- machines (onelb, the other not) when running WC in a window
- under OS/2. On the LB machine, it still flies, on the non-LB machine,
- it is noticible slower--but still pretty quick. The big
- differenceis the hit that the non-LB card puts on HS transfers
- in the background.
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- >--
- >Bob Rogers Internet: at608@cleveland.freenet.edu
- >
- >
- >
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