DELL PXS P133c Video Performance w/ GP2 & s3spdup

This system used to be the benchmark system for all the majow magazines, so I''m posting my video performance because it seem substantially slower than what i've seen here. I've got 48Me g of ram, and 256k of Cache The video card is a #9 Motion w/ 2megs of Vram this card is built around the S3 968 chipset. the gplog.txt file reports processor speed 258 video 151 using s3spdup I get identical numbers. possibly with a higher PO Running SVGA, most detail off, s3spdup vesa on The game seems to run slower with s3spdup active. This is most noticable with smoke turned on. I now set the frame rate one step below the estimate and turn smoke off to get a decent framerate, but there's enouph frustration to keep up with the 200MHZ MMX news. Does anyone have any ideas on how to speed up this combination. or how to get s3spdup to work with a Motion 771 card.

I'm getting gp.log speed of 379 and a vspeed of 189 on a new Dell PPro200 with a #9 Virge card (No s3spdup), now I wonder if its worth the bother. I have read other postings that suggest that #9 cards don't pond well to some of these "tweaks".

James, I'm running a P133 with noname Virge based card and get ~460 for vid speed. (with s3spdup) Running a PPro which has a lower priority on writing to video ram than standard Pentiums, you should look around the web for a program called FASTVID (I don't know where tho') This will improve GP2 performance quite alot. (anyone know where to find it?) I don't know if you can run s3spdup on top, but it improved SVGA occupancy levels by around 15-20% on my machine. Jet

after much tweaking, my ppro200 w/ mach64 card did show vast improvement with univbe 5.3 and fastvid combined, both in benchmarks and dos games, BUT! in gp2 the enabling of these two programs did nothing to change my gp2 log:on score of 379 cpu and 139 video. Jeff

Fastvid did not improve the performance of my #9 ViRGE card on a PPro200, still haven't found s3spdup.

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>> I'm getting gp.log speed of 379 and a vspeed of 189 on a new Dell >> PPro200 with a #9 Virge card (No s3spdup), now I wonder if its worth the >> bother. I have read other postings that suggest that #9 cards don't >> pond well to some of these "tweaks". >James, I'm running a P133 with noname Virge based card and get ~460 >for vid speed. (with s3spdup) Running a PPro which has a lower priority >on writing to video ram than standard Pentiums, you should look around >the web for a program called FASTVID (I don't know where tho') This will >improve GP2 performance quite alot. (anyone know where to find it?) >I don't know if you can run s3spdup on top, but it improved SVGA >occupancy levels by around 15-20% on my machine. >Jet

Hey Guys, My comp is a P133 with an ATI2megVram. I'm happy with the vidio Performance but naturally could use more. Does anyone know if this utillity "fastvid" works with ATI? Are there any other "tweak" utilities that are worth while? More importantly, I've never heard about "gp.log" or "video" speed meassurements and am interested in finding out about this. Is there some sort of utility that I need to know about? -- Mitch

I have a pentium 133 with a Virge card (ExpertColor) and my videospeed went up from 355 to 490 with s3spdup. Willem

>after much tweaking, my ppro200 w/ mach64 card did show vast >improvement with univbe 5.3 and fastvid combined, both in benchmarks >and dos games, BUT! in gp2 the enabling of these two programs did >nothing to change my gp2 log:on score of 379 cpu and 139 video. >Jeff Help! Where did you find this univbe5.3 or fastvid? What's this gp2 "log:on" score? -- I'll turn off the Gravity, it'll help you relax.