Test System: Hardware and Software Profiles

We have used a machine featuring those main specs:

• Jetway V266B as motherboard;

• AMD Athlon 2000+ as processor;

• Crucial 1Gb 400MHz DDR as ram;

• 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 128Mb as video card;

• Microsoft Windows XP updated with Service Pack 1 as OS;

• Microsoft DirectX 9.0c as DirectX API;

• Amigamerlin 3.1 R11 as 3dfx driver

• Unreal Tournament 2004 updated with 3355 patch;

• Graphics game settings at the normal level;

• HyperSnap-DX 6.01.00 as screen capture tool.

Amigamerlin 3.1 R11 and 3dfx Tools Configuration

Of course, we have used 3dfx Tool to customize the 3dfx driver default configuration: being Unreal Tournament 2004 a Direct3D based application, we show our Special Settings and Direct3D controls only. You have not to read about comments: this is thus because you must just replace this configuration.

3dfx Tools -> Special Settings

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3dfx Tools -> Direct3D Settings

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3dfx Tools -> Direct3D Settings

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Results

Now you can see four screenshots captured with the 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 card in two different states of game and driver setup: we got a good visual quality now by running the game at 1280x1024 without AA and now at 1024x768 with AA at 4X. In both the cases UT 2004 was sufficiently playable: at 1280x1024 it runs with very (very) fine speed too. You can see both istant and average values of frame rate on right corner of those images.

1280x1024x32 - Edge AA OFF - AA OFF

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1024x768x32 - Edge AA OFF - AA 4X

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1280x1024x32 - Edge AA OFF - AA OFF

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1024x768x32 - Edge AA OFF - AA 4X

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Unfortunately HyperSnapDX was not able to correctly capture the frames with AA: however, click here to download a zip file (its size is equal to 3.17Mb) containing the images in bmp format and without compression.