14/03/2004 - Foro 3dfxzone.it
How does one get a new Voodoo 4/5 Driver tested around here.

I have tried 3DMark2001 SE as a DX8.1 Test, and have tested with the DirectX 8.1 SDK samples. I have also tested with IL2 Forgotton Battles and Gunship. I have being comparing the driver against the last 3dfx official driver and Amigerlin 3.0. I am testing on a Voodoo 5500 AGP. I have found that my dirver seems to work aswell as the offical driver although like Amigerlin it has problems running multiple DirectX clients simoultaneously. I have noticed problems with Amigerlin with 32 bit per pixel modes, it doesn't run some of the DX8 samples in 32 bit per pixel modes, and doesn't run 3DMark in 32 bit per pixel mode either. I have tested all three drivers using 3Dmark, and the results are below.

1024 * 768 resolution

Official 32 bit per pixel Score 346 0.8 Million Triangles per sec
Score 343 0.8 Million Triangles per sec

Amigerlin 3.0 16 bits per pixel Score 350 0.8 Million Triangles per sec
Score 349 0.8 Million Triangles per sec

SFFT 32 bits per pixel Score 359 0.9 Million Triangles per sec
Score 359 0.9 Million Triangles per sec

In addition I have noticesd that the frame rate of one of the DX8.8 SDk samples increased to 100 fps asa against 80 for the official driver. I think that the triangle drawing rate has been improved somewhat. I was testing on a 300 Mhz Petium II based system.

Paul