Which is better, BVision PPC or Voodoo3 ?

[Vulture]

Actually, while BvisionPPC *maybe* a little bit faster on desktop and video playback than a Voodoo on Mediator with 8mb window set, on anything warp3d Voodoo is much faster. And thanks to Voodoo's 16mb compared to Bvsion's 8mb, you have more space for opened screens.

[Vulture]

@cv643d

yup, that's true about the visualizers, but Browsers scroll very fast, my vinced and kcon shell are rapid as well. I guess some programs are coded in a weird way. Also, some ppl may have speed issues if they've set the memory window on mediator at 4mb. I've found out that, contrary to what the manual says, the window can be at 8mb at all times with a compatible accelerator even if a pcmcia is present. Sure, in this case there are glitches (ie in Shapeshifter), but even then there's always that nice "remcards" blizkick module to disable anything at the pcmcia with a reboot and keep the speed of 8mb without problems.

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@delshay

"four microchips on the Blizzard PPC needs cooling."



Which ones? I mean, obviously the PPC and 68k (no?), what others need cooling?

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@cv643d


hmmm....

that's strange behaviour, that doesn't happen here, everything scrolls fine. For example, I had an amp2 playing a clip and an ASp window playing a speccy demo and IBrowse scrolled just fine. Also, about the mem window, just try switching between screens, the difference is obvious. Unless of course you've set P96 MMU on. I have to have it off for warp3d to work correctly.