Testing notes

Before I go anywhere near benchmarks/screenshots I’d just like to make a few things. I’m not going to be doing much non-FSAA benchmarks for the simple reason that I hate what non-FSAA looks like now.

All screenshots were originally saved in both Targa (*.tga) & JPEG (*.jpg) format with highest image quality used, rather than highest compression. Although due to file size limitations the Targa images have since been dropped.

Other than those few things I approached the review like a regular gamer would a game, i.e. I want a playable game with a good image quality/performance trade-off. Benchmarks were carried out as such. Where appropriate you may download the config files used in the games.

Display settings used during benchmarking unless otherwise noted were;

• 3D Filter Quality – High

• Alpha-Blending – Sharper

• Anti-Aliasing – Dependant on the benchmark.

• Level Of Detail Bias – -1.5

• Z-Buffer Optimization – Enable

• Glide Splash screen – Disable

• Legacy Texture Compression – Enable

• Maximum Buffered Frames – 2

• Rendering Color Depth – Software controlled

• MIP Map dithering – Enable

• Tripple Buffering - Disable

My system

For sake of convenience here is what my system consists of - this is what was used during testing of the Voodoo 5 5500 AGP.

• Pentium 3 450Mhz

• 128MB RAM (Generic PC-100 type)

• Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus DVD decoder

• SoundBlaster Live! Platinum, with Live! Drive installed

• DTT 2500 Speakers

• 6X Pioneer DVD drive

• Generic floppy disk drive

• US Robotics Sportster Flash V90 modem – ISA

• 15” monitor

• Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer

• Generic keyboard

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