Video Card and frame rates

[Johan K]

I don't know anyone else who has this problem, anyway I think Cherry is the expert when it comes to fixing Dominions frame rates. A Windows reinstallation might help, especially if it is another Version. Does your other OpenGL games (if you have any) run properly?

[Daynarr]

Originally posted by Psitticine:
I have a worn old Voodoo 2 card in my older machine. The framerates are just fine (15+ fps with fairly good quality settings) on that, so I don't think you need anything high-end. I don't know what the problem is!

If you have Voodoo 2 card you should also have a secondary card since Voodoo 2 did only 3D rendering and other card was needed for 2D. I'm just curious which other card you have.

Also, Voodoo 2 is far superior in 3D to any S3 Trio card no matter what Version of S3 Trio you have. Voodoo is created strictly for 3D while S3 Trio is basically 2D card that can do 3D but is not biased toward it. Even though they called that card S3 Trio3D/2X don't let that 3D in its name fool you - Voodoo 2 can beat S3 Trio with its hands tied behind its back.

[ December 10, 2003, 14:20: Message edited by: Daynarr ]

[Psitticine]

My really old machine (a dusty 300 mHz P2) has just onboard graphics backed by a PCI Voodoo 2. There's no 2D acceleration on it. Dom II runs slower on it than it does with either of the machines I didn't drag out of the closet to test with, but it still runs OK.

That one isn't even used for rendering. I keep a desktop with a GeForce 2 around to render my work with while I'm using an infinitely newer laptop as my do-everything-else-with system. I only gave Dom II a quick test on the really old one mentioned above, but it ran OK. I didn't hit any huge battles during my brief test though. Maybe next time I hit a super-battle, I'll take the saved game and test it on the ol' beastie.

[Daynarr]

Originally posted by Psitticine:
My really old machine (a dusty 300 mHz P2) has just onboard graphics backed by a PCI Voodoo 2. There's no 2D acceleration on it. Dom II runs slower on it than it does with either of the machines I didn't drag out of the closet to test with, but it still runs OK.

Your on board card is secondary card.
Secondary is relative here. If you judge by importance Voodoo is secondary since your PC can't run with Voodoo 2 alone (if you disable your on-board card in BIOS for example), while your other card alone is enough to run PC (with miserable 3D graphic effects though). However, I called Voodoo primary from 3D point of view where Voodoo is more important and your on-board card is just supplement.
OTOH, Voodoo 3 cards could be used as stand alone cards.

[Darryl]

Ok, I tried the omega drivers from that site and spent the Last hour trying to get something to display in more than 16 COLORS (not 16 bit color, but 16 colors!). The Omega drivers were loaded, but didn't seem to work with my adapter. Went back to the latest ATI drivers (after a few unsuccessful attempts to reinstall) and my system is back to working the way it used to (Still clocking about 1.311fps).

Is there an "OpenGL benchmarking tool" or something that I can use to check is OpenGL is working. I don't have any other OpenGL games.

Darryl

[Saber Cherry]

Are you doing all this with exactly one video card in the computer? Just the new one, and no other video cards? And if so, did you also remove all the drivers for the old video cards (in add/remove programs)?

[Johan K]

Here is a bunch of applications that use OpenGL. If you download a game demo that supports both OpenGL and direct3d then you should be able to see the difference quite easily.

http://www.opengl.org/applications/windows/