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First post, by Mau1wurf1977

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So I'm busy benchmarking my Voodoo setup and the game Incoming behaves weird.

You can download the demo here: http://download.cnet.com/Incoming-demo/3000-2 … 4-10018278.html

Run gameindex for benchmarking but include -screenmode as parameter. Otherwise you can't change the resolution.

The issue I have is that the game gets faster with higher resolutions. Not by much, but it's consistent across various CPUs.

I might have to remove it from my benchmark suite, but wondering if others get the same issue.

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Reply 1 of 2, by Mau1wurf1977

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Quick update!

The issue sort of fixes itself on faster CPUs. But with SLI it takes a very fast CPU to get a proper resolution scaling going on. Just in case someone sees this thread because they wonder about the same problem.

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Reply 2 of 2, by Holering

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Rage 128 VR 32MB PCI (Driver=6.36.1 (12-15-2000))

320x200 16bit -16.78 (worst fps 50: best fps 77.95)
640x480 16bit -10.37 (worst fps 24: best fps 63)
640x480 32bit (worst fps 24: best fps 64.5)
800x600 16bit -9.36 (worst fps 23: best fps 60)
800x600 32bit -7.60 (worst fps 17 : best fps 47)
1024x768 16bit -6.88 (worst fps 17: best fps 46)
1024x768 32bit -4.80 (worst fps 11: best fps 28)

EDIT:
Changed USB PCI latency (from 0 to 255) and now I got
320x200 16bit -28.83 (worst fps 85.15 : best fps 174.12)
640x480 16bit -15.21 (worst fps 35.71: best fps 93.16)
640x480 32bit -12.93 (worst fps 28.76 : best fps 78.74)
800x600 16bit -11.35 (worst fps 30.41 : best fps 68.36)
800x600 32bit -9.36 (worst fps 21.83: best fps 56.84)
1024x768 32bit -5.96 (worst fps 14.61: best fps 35.53)
1024x768 16bit -7.81 (worst fps 21.08: best fps 44)

For the record, I find onboard USB to be a $hit biscuit. It always seems to hog the entire PCI bus (reminds me of live! card) and share an IRQ with a card for all USB ports. It causes lockups, blue screens, intermittent slowdowns, kicked out of game to desktop, etc. Happened on 750i ftw evga mobo on Vista 64 (was playing Fallout 3), and my current am3+ gigabyte mobo. Two completely different systems and same crud. Only Linux and 9x seems to handle things without big problems, but then I get usb WiFi connection drops, and 56k speed with broadband. USB is a $hit biscuit. I wonder how bad FireWire is (more professional gear seems to use it)...?