RE: [WWOT] XP???

["L. M. Lloyd" <ubik@austin.rr.com>]

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This is getting extremely off topic, but now you are talking about
DirectX integration with a particular video card in XP, not the speed
of one OS Vs. another OS! I assure you, NT2K SP2 and XP are using the
same core. If the XP DirectX video card driver for your particular
video card gives higher frame rates than the NT2K driver, then good
for you, but that could be an issue of just not having updated you
NT2K driver to the latest version, or any number of reasons. That is
why games are not usually used as an across the board benchmark of
the OS. If you want to test the speed of one OS Vs. another OS, you
should look at processor and memory intensive tasks that do not
utilize additional acceleration hardware, something like a large
database query. Comparing game FPS has too many variables, including
DirectX version, video card, sound card, version of the game itself,
and of course the condition of your registry as it regards all of
these things. I can tell you three registry keys in NT2K that are not
set by default that will increase performance of an Nvidia card by
20%. If those keys are set by default in XP, then that would make XP
yield higher FPS without changing a single line of core code.







The goal is to overcome the deliberate nature of the process. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Allyn
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:21 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: [WWOT] XP???
> 
> 
> Note: they didnt play any games in that benchmark. I got higher fps
> in the switch.
> Al
> 

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