Lower performance in W2k

[Smaugen 0]

Hello!!!

 

My system:

P2 celeron dual 500

Voodoo 3500

Beta 2 w2k drivers

128 megg ram!!

 

Well, now I have tested w2k up against w98. I realize that W98 still have the best performance in games since Voodoo don't support smp in 3d. I get lower framerates in w2k than I get in w98. This concerns games and benchmarks.

I have noticed that the 2d performance is slightly better in w2k compared to w98.

 

Anyone who has experienced anything else may apply a posting here.

Please let me know.

 

Thanx

Smaugen :-)

 

 

 

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Signing off

Smaugen!!!

[sandvic 0]

In my case the games I tried look great and perform just fine, however The Sims and Ultima IX run smoother than in Win98

 

K6-II 450Mhz on QDI Titanium IB+ mb

160 Mb RAM

Voodoo3 3000 PCI

13 Gb HD (UDMA2)

[Damien Green 0]

You must remember that Windows 2000 is a very young operating system - some call it NT 5 - but there have been many changes since the last version of NT. This also means that the drivers for this system are still pretty much in their infancy, without many of the optimisations that Win98 have baan able to enjoy through a long development program. However, Win 2000 is a far more efficient system, and it's only a matter of time before graphics card drivers catch up with their Win 98 counterparts.

[Turbo Grunkamoj 0]

In this case I would like to say:

Don't blame win2k, this is entirely because of the drivers from 3dfx.

They suck. Thats it and thats that.

As an example, my framerate in Q3 dropped about 20fps when changing to win2k.

P2-400, 128Mb, V3-3000,

[DosFreak 2]

In Quake 3 at 1024X768 with all settings to the max I get the EXACT same frame rate that I do in Build 2499 of Windows ME. This is on a Matrox G400 32mb AGP SH OEM.

[Damien Green 0]

I think that DOSFREAk has summed it up - the G400 drivers under win2K are very good (I should know - I'm using them) and there is little difference as he points out between Win 2K and Win ME so I'm afraid you need to wait until 3DFX releases drivers that give your card half decent performance.