Video Card and frame rates

Daynarr · #1 December 10th, 2003, 05:50 PM

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Originally posted by Psitticine:
My really old machine (a dusty 300 mHz P2) has just onboard graphics backed by a PCI Voodoo 2. There's no 2D acceleration on it. Dom II runs slower on it than it does with either of the machines I didn't drag out of the closet to test with, but it still runs OK.

Your on board card is secondary card.

Secondary is relative here. If you judge by importance Voodoo is secondary since your PC can't run with Voodoo 2 alone (if you disable your on-board card in BIOS for example), while your other card alone is enough to run PC (with miserable 3D graphic effects though). However, I called Voodoo primary from 3D point of view where Voodoo is more important and your on-board card is just supplement.
OTOH, Voodoo 3 cards could be used as stand alone cards.

Darryl · #2 December 11th, 2003, 09:29 PM

Ok, I tried the omega drivers from that site and spent the Last hour trying to get something to display in more than 16 COLORS (not 16 bit color, but 16 colors!). The Omega drivers were loaded, but didn't seem to work with my adapter. Went back to the latest ATI drivers (after a few unsuccessful attempts to reinstall) and my system is back to working the way it used to (Still clocking about 1.311fps).

Is there an "OpenGL benchmarking tool" or something that I can use to check is OpenGL is working. I don't have any other OpenGL games.

Darryl

Saber Cherry · #3 December 11th, 2003, 09:48 PM

Are you doing all this with exactly one video card in the computer? Just the new one, and no other video cards? And if so, did you also remove all the drivers for the old video cards (in add/remove programs)?

Johan K · #4 December 11th, 2003, 09:49 PM

Here is a bunch of applications that use OpenGL. If you download a game demo that supports both OpenGL and direct3d then you should be able to see the difference quite easily.

http://www.opengl.org/applications/windows/

Darryl · #5 December 12th, 2003, 02:41 AM

Cherry: The Radeon 9200 AGP Video card is the only video card in the machine. It runs dual monitors by itself, so I don't need another card (2 video inputs on the single card). Also All other drivers were uninstalled.

Johan: downloaded "Logical Stones" from that site and seem to have the same problem: I can 'see' each frame run somewhere around 1fps. I actually think Dominions runs faster than this one. So the problem is obviously my card ... or the drivers. I downloaded the latest ATI drivers Last week. You know of anyone running Dominions with an ATI Radeon 9200?

Darryl

Johan K · #6 December 12th, 2003, 03:35 PM

Someone who uses a Radeon wrote this:

Just uninstalled Cat3.8 drivers for my Radeon and re-installed Cat3.7. Your
demo works like a dream now!
So best be careful with the latest Radeon drivers.

Maybe that could be helpful.

Darryl · #7 December 12th, 2003, 06:33 PM

Could be an issue Johan as I have Cat 3.9 installed. I'll get the 3.7 and let you know...