| From: | Joseph Fenton |
| Date: | 15 Aug 2000 at 18:28:20 |
| Subject: | Re: G3 & CGFX |
Bo Simmons wrote:
>
> Hi Joseph
>
> > Bo Simmons wrote:
> >>
> >> Yeah, I've seen it as well, but is 30 fps in Quake III at 1200xblahblah
> >> impressive? I think not, btw: the cpu was Celeron 350MHz i think...
> >>
> > If you think 30FPS at 1280x1024 is not impressive, you need to get your
> > head examined. :^} That kind of performance wasn't even possible until
> > just recently.
>
> Well, I've seen a PC run with Voodoo II at 1600x1200 in halflife with about
> 30 fps, so there is no huge improve from VII to VIII, or this may be
> because Quake III is some shit, and that is more likely, there is no
> gameplay anyways...
Given that Quake III does real-time tesselation of curved
surfaces into polygons, the speed difference is probably
more the processor than the card.