Putas wrote:

I guess the UT timedemo has a lot higher polygon counts.

Yeah seems likely. The engine scales poorly with polygon count.

I've been playing Wheel of Time, which seems like it may be one of the most complex Unreal Engine games, and even on a Athlon XP 2000+ with DDR it slows down when the scene complexity gets high. I started on an Athlon 1.0GHz with PC100 and it actually became unplayable in some situations! Using a FX 5900U and D3D or Zeckensack's Glide. Unreal Engine 2 is so much more efficient.

Ouch! I've been meaning to play that game, is it any good? Never read any of the novels...

F2bnp wrote:

Ouch! I've been meaning to play that game, is it any good? Never read any of the novels...

It is interesting. I am almost finished with it. Some of the environments are really nice and the weaponry (all magic) is elaborate and unique for a shooter. Think of it essentially as Unreal taken to a new level but with no guns. Some of the magic is really crazy but some is not very practical in a fight. Nice atmosphere thanks to the fitting soundtrack.

I haven't read any of the books either. It has a plot and interesting lore but I'm not really paying close attention.

swaaye wrote:

Putas wrote:

I guess the UT timedemo has a lot higher polygon counts.

Yeah seems likely. The engine scales poorly with polygon count.

Maybe, but I was thinking about bad scaling of SLI'ed cards. Somebody add Banshee pretty please.

Would be interesting to see a Banshee in the results. I don't have one anymore though. Seems like Vintage3D could use a Banshee article though. 😉

I tried Voodoo5 5500 with the Athlon 1000 and it runs Wheel of Time much faster than the 5900U does D3D or Glide emulation. I also tried Deus Ex with D3D, UTGLR and Glide with the same results. Seems with Unreal Engine that the Glide renderer running native is more CPU efficient than I thought.