Reply 1280 of 27785, by idspispopd
wrote:Quake demo1 at 233 Mhz with a Matrox Mystique 4MB and a SB AWE 64: 46 FPS. Its not a very impressive score but I guess Quake is one of few games running faster on a vanilla Pentium at the same clock speed. The 512 KB CPU adds 4 FPS to the score and gets 50.1 FPS at 233 Mhz.
That's true only if you don't use fastvid or similar utilities. Mystique should support VBE 2.0.
From http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/info/techinfo.091:
"Pentium Pro Performance
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The Pentium Pro is a very fast Quake platform, but has one weak spot; it is
by default very slow on writes to video memory. This means that in default
hardware configurations, you are usually much better off setting
vid_nopageflip to 1 if you use VESA modes, so drawing is done to system
memory instead of to video memory. Remember that you must set the mode
after setting vid_nopageflip to 1 in order to get vid_nopageflip to take
effect. (vid_nopageflip can sometimes be faster on a Pentium, too, but
not by nearly as much in general, and it's often slower.)
The Pentium Pro has some special features that are not turned on by default,
but which can help Quake performance a LOT. These features can be enabled
by John Hinkley's program FASTVID, which can be obtained from
ftp://members.aol.com/JHinkley/fastvid.zip. Performance in 640x480
mode on a Pentium Pro/150 nearly doubled after FASTVID was run; Quake
was very playable (and looked great!) at this resolution."
See also 133 MHz Challenge - 5th/6th gen CPU per clock performance