Re: Is this the best Mach64 performance I can get?

["Andrew Smith" <rhml k1k2 com>]

> Steve Snyder <swsnyder home com> writes:
> 
>> I'm running Enigma on an older machine, a machine that has a "ATI 
>> Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X" (as reported by lspci) video 
>> controller on the motherboard.  Running the "gears" benchmark on my 
>> 800x600x24bpp KDE desktop, I get 80 frame/sec.
> 
> Mach64 isn't 3D accelerated, so that seems about right.
> 
> -- 
> Trond Eivind Glomsrød
> Red Hat, Inc.
Hmmm,
80 sounds good for a monitor that displays at 80Hz
I aways find these discussion funny.
Especially when someone says they can get e.g. 800 frames/sec
The bottom line is the refresh frequency of your monitor.
If it can't refresh the display at 800 frames/sec then you are
completely wasting CPU!
I guess what the games should all have is the option to set the
frame rate to match the monitor frequency (or should it be twice
the monitor frequency?)
Getting software to produce 10 frames for every 1 frame that is
displayed means you are using (up to) 10 (or is it 5?) times more
CPU than is necessary but not getting any better results
-- 
-Cheers
-Andrew

MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!