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To: Tae Spam Kim who wrote (12445)	5/11/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 16960

TnT is BEAUTIFUL in Q3Test... With my Celeron 300A/overclocked to 450mhz.. it was very smooth at 800X600 32 bit. Let the record show I was spanqin TK badly on my V2s tho! ;-) Seriously, "playable framerate" is in the eye of the beholder and I don't know (yet) how to get Q3 to spit out an objective framerate number. But using the "jerkiness estimation technique" I'd say that on my P2-400, the Q3 framerate is always above 40fps while the TNT framerate (even in 640x480) frequently drops below 30. Of course, I had the 32-bit mondo textures settings turned on for the TNT (otherwise, why use it?) If you turned some of that stuff off, you may run faster, but then your image is degraded. When nothing is going on, the TNT does look "BEAUTIFUL" - I agree. I also agree that the V3 should look much better than the V2 - with the "Voodoo grid" effect eliminated. Finally, the V2 image doesn't look bad at all. It's just a relative judgement. It's a very big improvement visually over Quake2's fixed palette. Slicer