From: Kelly X-Envelope-To: To: ml@qoole.com Reply-To: ml@qoole.com Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:19:39 -0600 Subject: Re: How is the FireGL1000? Well, if your dual is a P2 I would highly advise you NOT get a FireGL. Check out http://www.best.com/~winfast/2300cpu.htm for the full story but here is a short bit of the article: --- More interestingly, we discovered that the 3-D performance of faster CPUs such as the Pentium II is actually slowed when they have to delegate 3-D rendering to average accelerators such as the Diamond 3D card. To verify the 3-D "deceleration" effect, we isolated the scores from scene 1, which is rendered completely in hardware, for both 3-D cards. Indeed, the Pentium II was faster when rendering in the emulation mode than with the Diamond card. Therefore, we recommend using only superior 3-D cards like Leadtek's if you have a Pentium II-based system. --- Based on that I got the Leadtek L2300 card and love it! Quake2 in OGL runs sweet. And the leadtek card is on of the few that do not require you to run fullscreen, it works great in a window too, 3DS Max2 run great too. I have a dual p2, Quake is not multithreadred, it won't really benifet from two processors as much as it could if it was a SMP version. Kelly VeRMaL >> Hello, >> >> I am getting a new system that has the Diamond Stealth FireGL 1000 >> board (8 meg) in it. Does anyone have any experience with this card >> and Quake2? >> >> Also, I think the answer to this is no, but I'll ask anyway: My new >> system has dual processors. Will Q2 take advantage of the two >> processors? I believe the compiling utils will, but I was wondering if >> the game will?