That's not really the case. The card/driver combination makes or breaks a
3D solution. For instance, under w9x, using dual voodoo2's, HL/CS would
probably run great. Since I threw 9x out the window a couple of years back,
I've run NT/2000 on my workstations exclusively.
Now, with HL/CS 1.0 and 1.1, my FPS would drop to sub 20, and sometimes less
than 10 on W2K with the 3dfx W2K beta drivers for Voodoo2. Since 3dfx went
under, I was forced to go with nVidia GF2 MX PCI to fix the problem, because
they fully support W2K.
Now my minimum FPS is exactly 37.5, which is strange, as it is exactly half
of my 75Hz refresh rate. I'm guessing this is a driver issue that needs
optimizing. I'm running the 12.41 nVidia reference drivers for W2K. But,
it beats the hell out of my voodoo2 performance. (I had also tried
WickedGL, and it didn't really help much)
I will agree that on a LAN just about any card would do, but it seems with
internet play and the higher latency, that FPS within many games can lag
considerably if you have an older card.
I hear at least once a day from someone on our CS server that they get MAX
30 FPS. I couldn't play under those circumstances. Quoting Q3 single
machine performance is not a real world indicator for net play FPS. Anway,
it would be nice to see some people do some benchmarks with HL/MODs.
So, I wouldn't say that just any card will give you great HL/MOD
performance...
StanTheMan
TheHardwareFreak
www.hardwarefreak.devastation.cc
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert J Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 2:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: FilePlanet
They do that because Quake III is a good all-around benchmark for video
cards.
It can really tax a card with some of those levels.
HL is just the Quake 1 engine on speed, so it can run on just about anything
these days.
Even my old Riva TNT could run it great!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 9:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: FilePlanet
What really irks me is that the hardware sites still insist on using Q3 for
their benchmarks for video cards... Hundreds of thousands of people would
much rather know how it performs in HL/CS/TFC.
Eric (the Deacon remix)
http://www.firekite.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Cassaday [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 9:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FilePlanet
here is a tidbit from fileplanets site
"Twenty MILLION Megabytes Served
Why are there long lines on the public servers? Becayse the Half-Life and
Counter-Strike updates are obscenely popular. In fact, since they were
released on Wednesday, we've served around 20 terabytes, or about 20 MILLION
megabytes of data. That's around 13,888,889 floppy disks or 31,008 CD's
worth of information. And we're still going! "
Guess HL is still king of the hill.
