Poor performance with New GeFo 4
In an effort to improve a game PC, I replaced the VooDoo3 2000 PCI vid card with a new GeForce 4 MX440-SE PCI card. I D/L the latest drivers from nvidia, but still find performance worse than the old card. Quake II Open GL is poor (35 fps..VooDoo was 100 w Glide). U/T in D3D is poor. As is HL in D3D. I know its a PCI card...but it should out perform my old VooDoo...NO? Do I have to re-install all these games? You'd think Quake II would not require this. Do I need to do some tweaking? How can i be sure old drivers are purged?
MOBO
ASUS Socket 7 w/ AMD K6-2 @ 500MHz.
256M of PC133 RAM.
Thanks
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Re: Poor performance with New GeFo 4
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Originally posted by natb1
AMD K6-2 @ 500MHz.
That's probably your problem...3DNow! support.
QII has no internal 3DNow! support, it comes from the OpenGL drivers. 3Dfx did very good 3DNow! support, NVidia & others not so good. I doubt if the current GeForce drivers are much optimised for 3DNow!, ancient technology. Probably similar situation for the other games, especially since the MX440 is still not giving you hardware DX8 support.
So I would think the Voodoo is ideally suited for your CPU and games, the MX440 less so.
Re: Poor performance with New GeFo 4
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Originally posted by natb1
MOBO
ASUS Socket 7 w/ AMD K6-2 @ 500MHz.
256M of PC133 RAM.
That's a pretty slow system to be running newer 3d video cards. It was mentioned that 1 ghz and slower systems might be bottlenecks for todays newer 3d videocards, either for ati or nvidia.
You might want to upgrade to a newer system.
Re: Re: Poor performance with New GeFo 4
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Originally posted by cookin chef
1 ghz and slower systems might be bottlenecks for todays newer 3d videocards
Certainly so, and PCI adds to this. Even a modest performing card like the GF4 MX has its performance approximately halved by being on the PCI bus instead of AGP.