proteus456

Oh..I should also add. One of the things you'll start to see is P4 performance catching up, and surpassing Athelon performance. WinXp was designed and optimized for the Pentium 4 architecture, so we should start seeing real benchmarks soon to bear this out. Note that Win9x performance has little to no relation to Win2k/Winxp Performance. The sooner we get rid of all the 9x benchmarks and testing going on..the better.

The performance problems you're seeing relate to drivers. As of now, Nvidia is the ONLY manufacturer that has properly optimized drivers for Windows XP (and 2k for that matter). Like most hardware manufacturers, they've spent their optimization resources on garbage like Win9x, and haven't learned how to write proper WDM drivers (See Creative Labs for another good example). Also note that Nvidia's drivers are multithreaded, thus have improved performance on SMP machines. No..I don't work for Nvidia, I just don't see anyone else writing proper drivers for WinXP/2k. ATI REALLY needs to get their act together.

I cannot get homeworld to work with 2195.3 and Creative Anihilator pro (Geforce DDR) with 3.65 drivers. As soon as you select either D3d or Ogl drivers in setup, the game crashes to a black screen....