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Contestant Number: 036
Type: Demo, 5 scenes
Short Description: 5 Scenes
Author: Andrew Nicolle <andrewn@cobweb.com.au>
API: Glide
Rush Compatible: Yes
NT4 Compatible: Yes
Source Available: No
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Operation 3Dfx Demo Competition 2
'Visions' README
Copyright 1997,98 Andrew Nicolle
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Information:
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This demo was submitted to the Operation 3Dfx demo competition 2
(http://www.op3dfx.com) on 3 March 1998.
Entry Name: Visions
Entry Number: 36
Description: 3D demo running at high frame-rates
Written by: Andrew Nicolle
The demo features 5 scenes demonstrating various capabilities of the 3Dfx
chipset. All effects have been optimised to provide maximum frame-rates on
standard 4Mb Voodoo cards. In addition, the 800x600 mode is supported on
Voodoo 2 cards to take advantage of their greatly increased speed.
Requirements:
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Pentium processor (Pentium 166 or higher recommended)
24Mb RAM (Possibly less!)
1Mb of harddisk space
4Mb Voodoo Graphics card (3Dfx) with Glide 2.43 or higher
Windows 95 or Windows NT Operating System
Command-line switches:
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The following command-line switches can be used to alter the behaviour
of the demo. These can be used either by DOS batch files or by creating
short-cuts to the demo and altering the parameters.
-fps Display frame rates at end of demo
-loop Loops the demo continuously
-800 Set 800x600 display mode (Voodoo 2 only)
-novsync Turn off vertical retrace syncing (improves performance)
For example, the following will display a frame rate summary and turn-off
vertical retrace syncing:
visions -fps -novsync
The demo can be stopped at any time by pressing ESC. Frame-rate statistics
will be displayed if these have been enabled.
Performance summary
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The following frame rates were obtained for a Pentium 200 with 64Mb RAM and a
Monster 3D card using the -novsync option (the number of Vertices and Faces
displayed is listed also):
Motion Blur: 73.4 fps (Verts: 916 Faces: 3608)
Visions: 95.7 fps (Verts: 376 Faces: 728)
Water: 80.2 fps (Verts: 1048 Faces: 1990)
Rotozoomer: 84.3 fps (Verts: 390 Faces: 730)
Earth Zoom: 173.5 fps (Verts: 546 Faces: 1080)
Compatibility
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The demo has been tested under Windows 95 and Windows NT with no known
problems. This demo supports Voodoo, Voodoo Rush, and Voodoo 2 based 3D cards.
Random lock-ups were reported on Voodoo Rush cards with an early beta of this
demo, and there may still be problems in this version.
The demo will run in 800x600 mode on cards with 4Mb of frame buffer memory
(ie Voodoo 2) through the use of the -800 command line switch. This has not
been tested on a Voodoo 2 card, but there shouldn't be any problems. Let me
know how it runs if you have a Voodoo 2!
Contact details
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Bug-reports, comments, etc can be sent via the email address below.
Other demos, patches and further information can be found on my web site
also listed.
Email: andrewn@cobweb.com.au
Web: http://www.cobweb.com.au/~andrewn
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3/3/98 Andrew Nicolle (aka raven/tektonic)