Wayne Nymark wrote: > Hi, I'm new to the list. > > I have just added an ATI Rage 128 video card to my system: a powermac 7300 > upgraded with a G3 250mhz card running OS 9.2.2. I have 296MB of Ram. > > To my great surprise Norton Utilities reports that my 2D video performance > has decreased by about 50%! How can this be? I'm using the latest October > 2002 drivers from ATI. I have tried previous versions of their Graphics > Accelerator extensions but get about the same result.
A 50% difference should be extremely noticeable...do your windows open at half speed...has scrolling suddenly become scroo<yawn>oolling? Does moving an image window, in say Photoshop or something result in a slow reconstruction of the window where you moved it to? Does Quicktime drop frames where it didn't before you switched? If not, then <Gomer>surprise surprise surprise</Gomer> it's not really 50% slower, it's just Nortons Utilities being wrong. Again. As Usual. :-/ Trust your senses when you're using the system, not the benchmarks. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:pci-powermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
