Darth Draugmahl Posted May 2, 2002 Posted May 2, 2002 Ok I've done some additional testing and I have to give a firm "wtf"? I benchmarked both my Voodoo 5 5500 that I was using and the GeForce 4 MX440. Voodoo 5 5500: 1986 GeForce 4 MX440: 3876 Quake III Arena Frame rates Settings 1024 and all settings all the way up Voodoo 5 5500: 35-90 depending on location. GeForce 4 MX440: Could not force card to produce less than 90+ fps no matter what I turned up, jacked the resolution up 2 more notches and same result. Jedi Knight II MP 1028x with everything jacked up except in bilinear mode and 16-bit color. Test was done on ffa_bespin and ffa_deathstar with 9 bots. Voodoo 5 5500 w/ wickedgl driver: produces between 29-90 fps depending on location. It once dipped to 19. GeForce 4 MX440: Produced between 15-79 fps. In this game the GeForce card produced consistantly between 4 and 20 fps less than the voodoo 5 . So far as turning the settings down, I have noticed this since I first installed my voodoo 3 way back in the day. I can turn everything down all the way to bare settings and still end up with a total of 8-12 fps improvement. Any ideas? Too new for great drivers or is there something else? Anyway, system specs are as follows Athlon 1400mhz Thunderbird Abit KT7-A motherboard 1024MB PC133 SDRAM Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Windows ME and Windows XP Pro (tried both, ME was better) 60GB hard drive.
Darth Draugmahl Posted May 2, 2002 Author Posted May 2, 2002 Time demo on Voodoo 5 5500 shows 40.1 fps. Conclusion: If it isn't already obvious, don't bother with GeForce 4 MX440. I was hoping to get a quick improvement in THIS game as well as Wolfenstein without really spending a lot of cash since I've gotten burned on high-end cards repeatedly. However, the real clear choice will be to shell out the extra 50 clams for a Ti4200 sometime later this month. This thing goes back to da sto' tomorrow.
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