First post, by kahuna
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Hello everyone!
I need some help to understand what the title of this post says, whether these numbers are expected or if am I missing something here.
Let me describe my current system:
SOYO SY-5EMA PRO (ETEQ chipset which is just a rebranded VIA MVP3)
AMD K6-III+ @616 MHz (112 x 5.5)
384MB of RAM CL2
Windows 98 SE
Sound Blaster Live!
Graphics cards tested (all AGP): Voodoo 3 3000, Geforce 2 Ti, Geforce 3 Ti200, Geforce FX5900
I'll get more specific numbers and do more comprehensive tests if I can, but on a quick test all the Nvidia cards scored around 2000 marks on 3DMARK 2000 with the default settings for the test.
While in Unreal Tournament I pretty much got 20-22 fps average depending on the graphics card used, all of that at 1024x768x16 with high details and running the utbench demo using Direct3D.
The Voodoo 3 performance was slightly better with Glide for what I recall (I will come back to this and post the actual numbers).
What worries me is it seems I'm pretty much CPU bound, as there is no difference on the results I'm getting with different graphics cards. So, is that a correct assessment or am I missing something here?
Is there something I can do to improve the results?
I have tried with different Nvidia driver versions, I tested the same utbench demo with multiple driver versions and gets better if I use older drivers but still not a big difference (1-2 fps up/down)
Also, I tested with different AGP drivers via 4in1 and ETEQ releases.
Any insights and suggestions are more than welcomed.
Thanks!
Be free!