Hi Jim,
Which J3D benchmarks are you running ?
Can we get a copy of it ?
Thanks.
- Kelvin
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>Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 11:38:47 -0700
>From: Jim Schatzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Windows 2000 Performance.
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>To add my 2 cents to this issue:
>
>Have run benchmarks on both Dell Inspiron 5000 and 5000e. Here are my
>results using Win2K on both platforms:
>
>1) Both machines fail about half the J3D benchmarks I tried with the
>Java3D 1.2 DirectX version. "Fail" means fail to run, black screen
>and/or crash the JVM. Those benchmarks that actually ran did so
>much faster than the corresponding OpenGL-based Java3D benchmarks.
>Unfortunate that the DirectX implementation (as of J3D 1.2) is apparently
>not quite all there yet....
>
>2) Both machines ran my benchmark suite correctly with the OpenGL version
>of Java3D 1.2. Performance: about 20% of the speed of a NVidia GeForce 2 MX
>on desktops with similar CPU (700-750 MHz PIII/700 MHz Athlon/800MHz
>Thunderbird) for benchmarks that were limited by the speed of the 3D engine.
>My conclusion: Dell still does not support hardware acceleration with Java3D,
>or their acceleration support is inadequate.
>
>Is anyone aware of a laptop available yet using the NVidia GeForce 2Go chipset?
>
>Thanks-
>
>Jim Schatzman
>
>
>At 09:10 AM 11/13/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>>Thanks for the info, Lee. We just bought a 5000e with win98 and it runs the
>>3d really well. Had some issues with power management and our app, as well
>>as the laptop just not "waking up" sometimes, so I disabled power
>>management. Also had a few JVM crashes. Now that will be a problem if it
>>happens to our customer.
>>Daniel
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: J. Lee Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 8:05 AM
>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Windows 2000 Performance.
>>>
>>>
>>> I sent an email a week ago about running J3D/OpenGL on a Dell Inspiron
>>> 5000e running Win2K and a ATI Mobility 128. No probs... required
>>> running in 32bit mode.
>>>
>>> I was quite happy with the performance...
>>>
>>> -Lee
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Justin Couch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 6:43 PM
>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Windows 2000 Performance.
>>>
>>>
>>> > Bob Gray wrote:
>>> >
>>> > From
>>> >
>>> > http://www.j3d.org/faq/video.html#start
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> > I don't know if this info is up to date....
>>>
>>> As far as we are aware, this is the case. nVidia with
>>> Detonator3 drivers
>>> is the only card that we've received reports of it working
>>> under Win2K -
>>> even then only in certain colour depths. If other people have
>>> different
>>> experiences, let us know!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Justin Couch Author, Java Hacker
>>> http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java 3D FAQ Maintainer
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