Thread: why does direct3d suck for me

I have a geforce2mx 400 64mb gpu at the moment and OpenGL mode works fast for games that support it, but Direct3D always goes really slow. Does this mean my card isn't Direct3D enabled or something?

OpenGL will always run faster because it isn't strictly based on the abilities of your video card. Direct on the other hand relies alot on the capabilites of your video card.

For example, if you have a Voodoo2 vid card with 32mb of memory on it, and a Voodoo5 with 64mb of memory, direct will run much faster on the V5...

I sense and anti-direct3d campagne form RoD
What game runs slow with direct3d? Old version of direct3d
are slower then opengl.

I only hate D3D because i played a few games on this new P4 with the TI4200, then came back to my V5.....god i am so ........ed i don't have that card.....

What game runs slow with direct3d?

half life and its mods at the moment.

HL is very hardware intensive on D3d, theres your problem.

Originally posted by Silvercord
half life and its mods at the moment.

Half Life uses an old version of Direct3D, that's your problem,
Don't go blame Direct3D for bad performance.

RoD: Half Life is very CPU dependend,it'd be very sad if your
videocard was to be the bottleneck, just to give you an example:

I tried using a dual-monitor once, succeeded using a voodoo2,
then i played Half Life with my dual configuration, worked
just fine, noticed no change in performance. Afterwarts i
realised i just played Half Life on my voodoo2 in 1024x840 and
no change in performance whatsoever.

BTW: I always have 100 FPS in half life, so i did with the voodoo2,
Voodoo2 kicks Half Life arse

I was never able to get my V2 past 80 or so FPS in HL....o well

Originally posted by RoD
I was never able to get my V2 past 80 or so FPS in HL....o well

You mean you never where able to get your CPU past 80 FPS,
the Voodoo2 isn't the bottle neck here
What cpu did you use for it? You need at least 900 MHZ to get
100 FPS i guesstimate

well the V5 got too 100 and its the same exact pc setup, i took the v2 out and stuck the v5 in.

Well, its between 600mhz and 650....pick :P

Originally posted by RoD
well the V5 got too 100 and its the same exact pc setup, i took the v2 out and stuck the v5 in.

Well, its between 600mhz and 650....pick :P

Hmm, well in this case the Voodoo5 made up for the CPU lack,
but still, its CPU dependend

NVidia based cards tend to run OpenGL games faster than DirectX, wheras Radeon cards are awesome with DirectX and not as good with OpenGL. So if you have two AGP slots, but a Radeon 9700 in one and a GeForce Ti 4600 in the other. The best of both worlds .

Originally posted by frenchfry164
So if you have two AGP slots, but a Radeon 9700 in one and a GeForce Ti 4600 in the other. The best of both worlds .

Or you could take a PCI NVidia and an AGP Radeon.
But most modern games support both API's.

You can't get a Ti4600 or anything of the Ti series in PCI.

Originally posted by frenchfry164
You can't get a Ti4600 or anything of the Ti series in PCI.

Like you're going to notice a change in performance between
different API's with a TI4600