Re: Quake performance SGI vs Sun

From: JCS (mjcs_750_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:40:51 -0600

"Alexis Cousein" <al@brussels.sgi.com> wrote in message
news:c48nkj$a22c9$1@fido.engr.sgi.com...
> Dennis Grevenstein wrote:
> > These results don't look so good for those SGI machines
> > compared to my Ultra2. Okay, Quake is not "real work"
> > but nevertheless: Why do SGIs perform so bad at Quake?
> >
> Well, who'd want to play Quake1 when you have a perfectly good Quake2?
>
> I used to play it on the iR (anti-aliased) and the Vpro V8 we had
> -- didn't seem that putrid.

Alexis,

Have you ever tried it on an MXI Octane? Very playable, but it locks up the
machine after a few levels - even
telnet is not particularly responsive. I'm somewhat concerned that there
might be a fault in my MXI
card. I haven't tried it with fastfan set yet.

JCS