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If you care to, I would appreciate your comments. Clear sky !
P-II 400MMX:
- P-II 400MMX, ATC-6220 A-TREND 440BX M/B, 128 Meg. SDRAM, 32X CDROM ,& 19"MAG. screen
- Jaton Video Card 67P Trident Pro 9685 4 meg.,Monster 3dfx II 12mag.SLI,W98.
- DirectX 6. and FUII (1.04 patch) .
- FUII graphics for the tests.
- Air Traffic Density - ON
- Terrain - HIGH
- Cirrus Clouds - ON
- Camma Correction 50%
- At 800 x 600.
-NOTE: THIS TEST IS ON A 4.3 gig. H.D.
Here are the numbers:
P-II 400MMX VooDoo II,SLI 800 x 600-16
3Dfx - ON:
Average : (F3)- 28.2+ fps
Open terrain : (F1)- 35.3 fps
Open terrain : (F3)- 30.2+ fps
Over water : (F1,3)- 60.+ fps
Takeoff/Landing : (F3) - 29.2+ fps
S.F. City : (F1,3) - 18.1+ fps
Subjective analysis of graphics: Out of this world!!!!!!
E-Mail from Steve Mahone,Thank You Steve from All.
I'm Steven Mahone, a network design engineer with MCI living in
Colorado Springs. My father-in-law is a retired pilot and we've both
become fascinated with flight sims over the past six months or so.
For my father-in-law it's the flying, for me, it's the flying and
getting the optimal performance from the software and hardware -
hence, the reason for my email requesting your experiences with FUII
and system performance.
I decided to run an analysis yesterday with our two computers and came
up with some fps numbers and a few conclusions from my investigation.
If you care to, I would appreciate your comments. Happy flying!
Here's the environment:
- P133, 48MB RAM, 4X CDROM, S3 Trio64+ 2MB Video, W95 with SP1.
- PII400, 64MB RAM, 32X CDROM, Viper 330 4MB Video, W95 OSR 2.5.
- DirectX 5.2 and FUII (1.04 patch) on both machines.
- All the FUII graphics were maximized for the tests. Terrain high,
perspective perfect, cirrus on, etc. View mode was always taxi
camera (F8) at 800 x 600.
- I used the latest video drivers released by S3, nVidia, and 3DFx to
the web for downloading.
Here are the numbers:
P133 WITHOUT VOODOO2:
Average : 7 fps
High density 3D : 3.5 fps
Open terrain : 8 fps
Over water : 13 fps
Takeoff/Landing : 6 fps
Subjective analysis of graphics: Great
P133 WITH VOODOO2:
Average : 8 fps
High density 3D : 4.5 fps
Open terrain : 10 fps
Over water : 14 fps
Takeoff/Landing : 6 fps
Subjective analysis of graphics: 10% better than Great
PII400 WITHOUT ACCELERATION:
Average : 18 fps
High density 3D : 13 fps
Open terrain : 19 fps
Over water : 23 fps
Takeoff/Landing : 17 fps
Subjective analysis of graphics: 10% better than Great
PII400 WITH VIPER 330 (Riva 128 chip):
Average : 22 fps
High density 3D : 16 fps
Open terrain : 20 fps
Over water : 35 fps
Takeoff/Landing : 19 fps
Subjective analysis of graphics: 15% better than Great
PII400 WITH VOODOO2:
Average : 33 fps
High density 3D : 22 fps
Open terrain : 22 fps
Over water : 66 fps
Takeoff/Landing : 20 fps
Subjective analysis of graphics: 15% better than Great
Recommendations:
Don't bother buying a Voodoo2 if you don't have a Pentium II
processor. The CPU is a limiting factor here. You're better
off buying an old Voodoo1 card at a discount price.
If you do have a PII with a 4MB video card, a Voodoo2 will
increase your AVERAGE frame rates by about 30%. The keyword
is AVERAGE. When you takeoff or land, the difference is only
about 2 fps, when flying over dense 3D objects the difference is
about 6 fps, when flying over mountains and open terrain the
difference is a mere 1 fps, but over water it's 31 fps.
To get the best performance, get the best (and hopefully the latest)
video (Riva, S3, 3DFx) and API (D3D, Glide, OpenGL) drivers. I
had no hangs or (unexplained) strange behavior during my 8 hours
of testing and tweaking.
Changing your refresh rates, tri-linear filtering, caching, sync
buffering, etc., will affect your performance, but not by much
from what I can tell.
For gaming, stick with 3DFx video cards. Most of the games
now and (almost certainly) in the future will be written with API's
that are optimized by these chips and their drivers.
Please feel free to send me e-mail 
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