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mac freak · Apr 10, 2003, 05:04 PM

Anyone experienced any notable performance boosts?
From what I've read (*cough*macosrumors*cough*), there SHOULD be a notable improvement in OpenGL games...

I haven't updated yet, but what experiences have you guys had?

daydreamer · Apr 10, 2003, 05:16 PM

RTCW and spearhead demo are clearly 15-20 fps faster here dual800 gf2mx. Especially the mohaa demo really smoothtly here.

nobitacu · Apr 10, 2003, 05:39 PM

I'm getting a better fps rating as well. ^_^

Ming

::maroma:: · Apr 10, 2003, 06:12 PM

Would WC3 fall into this category? If so, has anyone seen any improvements?

nobitacu · Apr 10, 2003, 06:30 PM

I won't be able to tell for WC3, since it already ran fine before the update... so I won't be able to tell if it's any better.

Ming

Guy Incognito 2 · Apr 10, 2003, 08:06 PM

Originally posted by daydreamer:
RTCW and spearhead demo are clearly 15-20 fps faster here dual800 gf2mx. Especially the mohaa demo really smoothtly here.

That much? That's a serious speed gain!

mac freak · Apr 10, 2003, 09:19 PM

Yum Yum Yummy to hear!

Guy, what happened to your old account?

CheesePuff · Apr 10, 2003, 09:34 PM

I have heard that a lot of nVidia drivers were updated like the GeForce2 MX and the 420 and 440 Go series.

Although I can not report any FPS, I must say that both MOH: Spearhead demo and WWII: Online are much smoother. I now play WWII: Online with full detail.

ambush · Apr 10, 2003, 10:00 PM

weird, they didn't mention any gfx related improvements in the kbase article....

MindFad · Apr 10, 2003, 10:15 PM

Originally posted by ambush:
weird, they didn't mention any gfx related improvements in the kbase article....

Improvements to OpenGL. Supposedly adding some needed texture compression, or so I heard that's what the Unreal Tourney team was waiting for with OS X.

MindFad · Apr 10, 2003, 10:25 PM

Well, that's nice. I get 20-30 less frames in Quake 3 now. Oddly enough, RTCW seems the same. Now that's odd. I'll restart and try that again. On the timedemo I run in Q3, I get 126.6 frames everytime (give or take a frame or two. Now I'm getting 100 or less. That sucks. R_SMP i still on....

a2daj · Apr 10, 2003, 10:43 PM

Mine went from 106 to 108 at 1024x768 with max details in Q3.

mac freak · Apr 10, 2003, 11:06 PM

For comparison's sake, post what video card you have... if you're not sure, at least specify ATI or nVidia.

I've noticed sizable gains over on the new iMac with a GF2, but the ol' DP450 with a Radeon experienced only minimal gains.

DBvader · Apr 11, 2003, 12:03 AM

medal of honor used to run at 45 - 50 FPS with SMP on my Dual 867/512/9000

i now get 80-100 FPS w/o SMP!

fantastic.

DBvader · Apr 11, 2003, 03:07 AM

i thought that i might as well play the single player game of MOH, and wa weird thing ahppened. the FPS was rediculously low! it was somewhere at around 10 FPS for a lot of it, and after i turned the options down really low it was a more manageable 20 - 25 FPS...

whats the deal? with everything on high, i was almost content with the multiplayer FPS ratings...why are the single player ones so insane?

mac freak · Apr 11, 2003, 07:01 AM

What's your CPU? In single player, it has to do some AI that it doesn't need to worry about in MP, lowering framerates.

Guy Incognito 2 · Apr 11, 2003, 08:12 AM

Originally posted by mac freak:
Yum Yum Yummy to hear!

Guy, what happened to your old account?

Gorgonzola, a MacNN admin, and a bunch of people didn't like my attitude.

But that's the way I am, and I ain't changin'.

CheesePuff · Apr 11, 2003, 03:15 PM

Originally posted by Guy Incognito 2:
Gorgonzola, a MacNN admin, and a bunch of people didn't like my attitude. But that's the way I am, and I ain't changin'.

Don't blame ya either.

Eug · Apr 11, 2003, 03:23 PM

Check this out:

Xbench uses a tiny subset of OpenGL.
Some portions are much faster in 10.2.5.

Download the test from here:
http://homepage.mac.com/arekkusu/bu...fToRectTex.html

and you'll see that in this particular case 10.2.5 is about 20 times faster than 10.2.4, on ATI cards.

How often is this command used?

mac freak · Apr 16, 2003, 11:23 PM

Any further updates? I've noticed only a very small improvement in Shadowbane, to add another piece of data here

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bousozoku · Apr 17, 2003, 12:10 AM

Originally posted by Eug:
Check this out:

Xbench uses a tiny subset of OpenGL.
Some portions are much faster in 10.2.5.

Download the test from here:
http://homepage.mac.com/arekkusu/bu...fToRectTex.html

and you'll see that in this particular case 10.2.5 is about 20 times faster than 10.2.4, on ATI cards.

How often is this command used?

I couldn't see what the test was, but from what I could see of the URL, it's about texturing, which is used a lot in 3D games.

The ATI drivers had terrible problems and those who have them are seeing tremendous benefit apparently. The Radeon 9700 owners will be quite pleased.

I think that nVidia owners will see some improvement, due to OpenGL fixes.