Yeah, running some of the more demanding Q3A demos (managed to convert Via Arena, NV15, and Kyro 2 demos to work on Point Release 1.32), and lord, is the performance horrific. NV15 demo resulted (640x480x32 with sound on) in an average of 21.6fps. While not exactly related fully to this issue, I have noticed a lot of missing textures in the game too.

swaaye wrote:

I remember seeing someone here post benchmarks between various old GeForce series. I have no idea when that was but it could have been years ago. The FX series might have more driver overhead that impacts it with a CPU like a Pentium 3. A test of various 3dfx, GeForce and Radeon series across old CPUs at lower-ish resolutions would be interesting from a driver overhead perspective. This may already have been done though. 😀 Forums sort of absorb useful data and it can be hard to dig up again.

If I think it is useful (and if I happen to see it), I'd typically add it to the List of Interesting Vogons threads which I put on Vogonswiki, I keep adding something from time to time.
The driver overhead is indeed important when it comes to matters of this sort, who likes bloat? 😜