Originally posted by: Davegod
interesting, though more interesting to me is the FAQ saying RTCW is being worked on.
rather than search through amdzone front page, the direct link the the site is
here but check the inq page first.
Note to people who think these DLLs are "unfair" in benchmarks. This is horribly incorrect. Quake3 (even with an Athlon XP) forces AMD chips to use 3DNow, not SSE. Little do people know the 3DNow! code is completely broken in Quake3. It does not help at ALL. The Pentium 3 and 4 chips however are both detected as "Pentium 3" chips, which automatically uses SSE which DOES work in Quake3 and gives a significant FPS boost. These DLLs don't enable SSE but do help with Athlons.. and if SSE was to ever be enabled in Quake3 for Athlon processors they would blow Pentium 4 chips out of the water even more. In the tests I ran a P4-2.53 @ 3.32GHz, 175/700fsb lost to a "stock" Athlon XP 2700+(2166MHz, 166fsb) using these dlls
anyone with Q3 and an AMD tried + benched with this? anyone seen wether it stops you connecting to a pure server or get kicked for punkbuster violation?
I was considering starting a thread about this, since I heard about it yesterday.
I tried it, but my video card seems to be using the Refresh rate or something so I didn't see any boost in Performance. I only play Q3 once in awhile and never online, so I can't answer your questions.
This brings up an interesting question though: Does the SSE on Athlon XPs work? It seems that there is something amiss when it comes to AthlonXPs and SSE. It seems not to be an AthlonXP issue, but one of Software that uses SSE. If you may recall, WMP(Windows Media Player) also had a similar issue where the SSE on AthlonXPs wouldn't be used without a Patch. Like the Q3 situation, the Software didn't recognize the cpu as having SSE, so it would not even try using SSE. I wonder how many other SSE enabled Programs have the same issue or if anyone has tried testing various SSE coded Programs to see if those Programs use the SSE on AthlonXPs.
This seems to be an important issue, one that should also be asked concerning SSE2. I've seen a few reviews now where the reviewers were quite surprised with the poor results of the SSE2 benches on the new Opterons. It makes me wonder if the reason is again that the Opteron is not being recognized as SSE2 capable, thus SSE2 is not being used. If this is the case, it would seem that SSE/SSE2 uses a mucked up recognition code(seems to be an association with the Processor name, rather than an Enabled/Disabled non-Processor specific code) that makes the licensing of the technology kind of a waste of money, unless AMD or some other Licensee starts recompiling everybodys' code to recognize their cpus. Seems like a half assed way of doing it.
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