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carbon Q3 breaks 100 fps..
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Phaedrus
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I wonder if the carbonized version of Quake is Altivec-enabled...If so then these test results bode well for the next release of Quake that's altivec enabled for OS 9.1.
Damn, it is a great time to be a mac user! Within a year this sort of performance will probably have trickled down to the low end powermacs! Sweet! Now lets see how many gamers start buying macs because of the almighty framerate benchmark.....
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Dude, you need to sit down and throw an icepack on your crotch... do you HONESTLY think that a 733mhz G4 with a 32 meg Geforce will BEAT something that has DOUBLE the mhz, faster bus, faster memory, and a 64 meg card? I don't.
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Phaedrus
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Dude, you need to sit down and throw an icepack on your crotch... do you HONESTLY think that a 733mhz G4 with a 32 meg Geforce will BEAT something that has DOUBLE the mhz, faster bus, faster memory, and a 64 meg card? I don't.
lol, I'm just going by what Id and barefeats have reported. Also, consider this. Jobs loves to run bake-offs using photoshop. Why? Because Photoshop is one of the few apps that smokes faster on a Mac than on a PC. And the reason its faster on the mac is because of Altivec.
So now Id has optimized Quake for altivec. Is it unreasonable to think that it benefit from altivec as much as photoshop? I don't know how "altivec friendly" the processing that Quake demands is compared to photoshop, but.....I'm optimistic that Quake will benefit from altivec-dependent gains in performance simillarly to photoshop. As for the low vRAM in macs, that may affect speeds at ultra high resolutions, but I actually read somewhere that current games don't use more than 32MB vRAM efficiently.
So I'm going to keep that icebag in the freezer for now...and rejoice in the fact that we are even having this discussion. Six months ago the assertion that a Mac could run quake within the performance range of PCs would have been grounds for rubber room imprisonment. Now I just get told to ice down my unit...
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Hey, I just dont' want you to shoot yourself when it only boosts your FPS like 15 frames..... I'm just saying don't expect much. PCs have everything we do, only faster and better and cheaper. So.. yeah. Calm. 
Ca$h
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Umm. Just remember, Graeme's working on a 533.
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"My friend, there are two kinds of people in this world:
those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig."
-Clint in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
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A.J.
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There is no carbonized copy of Quake 3. The Mac OS X version is using Cocoa.
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