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Re: Matrox G400/G450 Quake III Performance

Posted on 2018-05-31, 01:44

Ah man, poor Matrox. Did you determine the fastest Matrox driver by trying them all? Perhaps the G400Max will fare better. Honestly, I think it's the 2000/XP driver in general. I'm about to flip this thing to Win98SE in a few. I'm almost 100% positive it'll run a lot faster then. In my testing I …

Re: Matrox G400/G450 Quake III Performance

Posted on 2018-05-30, 04:05

If you're running the newest version of Q3 demo4.dm_66 should be in pak6.pk3. I added the demo as an attachment though. I'm curious how the PCI version performs vs the AGP version. Edit: It looks like the PCI version has SGRAM while the AGP has (DDR) SDRAM. Is this correct?

Re: "Outrigger" OR840 build

Posted on 2018-05-30, 03:52

Thanks, I really appreciate your help here. This thread helped me even more today, I was getting some instability after installing a fresh windows XP. Sometimes it would give me a black screen just before windows would finish loading, sometimes it would just reboot. After installing the Geforce4 it …

Re: Matrox G400/G450 Quake III Performance

Posted on 2018-05-29, 20:22

I was doing some testing with my G400 under windows NT4 yesterday and I found that the latest NT4 driver has the same bug. I'm going to see if I can find some older drivers and figure out which one is the last good driver. I tried the NT4 drivers off the G450 disk (got it from the vogons driver …

Re: quake3 SMP-scaling thread…

Posted on 2018-05-29, 20:17

I did some more testing on the OR840 and on my IBM intellistation m pro 6898 with a pair of 333MHz pentium 2s. Unfortunately I couldn't get many AGP cards to work in the IBM. It's an older board with the 440LX chipset and I don't think it can supply enough power for newer AGP cards. I did try the …

Re: Voodoo 5 killed itself. Fixable?

Posted on 2018-05-26, 19:18

Looks the same as on my x800pro, but the x800 only did this in windows. It was damage caused when it was in a bin with other cards and some components were torn off the card by another cards heatsink. Maybe you could post some pics of the card? Do you see anything burned or did you smell anything …

Re: My Win98 Systems

Posted on 2018-05-25, 03:09

Ok, I tried a few cards and I did get some interesting results. The cards that did not work: TNT2 M64 16MB (don't know board maker) MSI Geforce2 Pro Radeon 8500 Matrox G450 Matrox Parhelia Cards that did work: ATI Rage pro Matrox G200 STB Permedia 2 Intel i740 Matrox G400max Cards I did not try: …

Re: My Win98 Systems

Posted on 2018-05-25, 01:55

The AGP 4x cards that didn't work in the Compaq did work in my IBM intellistation (6889) which has the 440BX chipset (pretty sure its the BX anyways, I haven't pulled the heatsink to confirm). I'll see if I can find a BIOS update. I'll try a few cards again though and see if I can get any to work.

Re: quake3 SMP-scaling thread…

Posted on 2018-05-23, 22:07

I was honestly very surprised by the Parhelia with SMP. It's almost always slower than the 8500 in Q3. I'll run some some more tests and even try the newer Parhelia card in the board too, once I get the system back together. I was doing some testing with another system. I also need to install XP on …

Re: My Win98 Systems

Posted on 2018-05-22, 20:40

Thought I would post an update as I got around to trying out the Compaq (P3) system more. It's got the 440BX chipset so I figured it would take AGP 4x cards. Well, none of them work in it. I've tried a number of cards in it and only AGP 2x cards work. I've had some issues with the ESS sound. I'm not …

Re: quake3 SMP-scaling thread…

Posted on 2018-05-21, 06:53

Ok, I gave the Radeon x800 pro a try on the OR840 and it got 94.7 without smp and 103.2 with smp. I was going to do more testing but the x800pro was so unstable that I ended up just pulling it. I put in the Matrox Parhelia (128MB/207MHz) and without smp it got 77.3 and 118.1 with smp.

Re: Quake III Arena Benchmark Thread

Posted on 2018-05-21, 04:26

I ran Q3 1.11 on a 1GHz P3 on my intel d815eea board with 512MB SDRAM and a Radeon 8500: Filename q3_p31g_8500_xp.png File size 403.78 KiB Views 3640 views I also tried it on my OR840 with a P3 933, 512MB of RDRAM and a Radeon 8500: Filename q3_p3933_8500_xp.png File size 408.85 KiB Views 3640 …

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