Reply 20 of 353, by swaaye
wrote:How did you test the 2D speed of the cards?
(As a side note, 2D speed also heavily depends on the OS, f.e. from my experience 2D under NT4 is 5x to 6x faster than on Win9x)Did you run 3DMark 99 with your Laguna?
2D speed is just my subjective opinion. This is mostly judged while I'm in Opera browsing web pages. It's 98 SE. If I have to watch it redraw the screen a lot, then it's slow. 😀 The Laguna is the slowest card I've seen in awhile. Even the V1000 is clearly faster and that says a lot. And this was all at 16-bit color depth. 24-bit was even slower, as expected.
I'm not really picky about 2D speed unless it is clearly dragging the system down and I'm watching a lot of slow redraws. In fact the only reason I started commenting on it was because the Laguna was so slow I thought I should say something.
I didn't bother with 3DMark99 because the card couldn't properly run games that are much simpler than 3DMark99. In fact it was unstable with just about everything I tried, even Jedi Knight. It also clearly is missing a number of features so I'm not sure a 3DMark99 score would mean much.