Quake 3 v1.32 Athlon XP Optimzed DLLs

Omega65

spotted this on <a href="http://www.amdzone.com&quot; target=_blank>AMDZone</a>

<a href="http://speedycpu.dyndns.org/opt/&quot; target=_blank>Quake 3 v1.32 Athlon XP Optimzed DLLs</a>

Quake3 v1.32

<a href="ftp://newageoc.com/pub/opt/q3xp-132opt.exe&quot; target=_blank>AMD Athlon XP DLL's</a> - Finally here! Enjoy guys. This gives quite an FPS boost.

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, 175/750fsb lost to

a "stock" Athlon XP 2700+(2166MHz, 166fsb) using these dlls...

Thrax

Holy fsck. Nice.

See what happens when Quake3 is finally benchmarked fairly with each processor using its respective performance-enhancing registers?

AMD wins, as I knew it should have all along. IT always seemed fishy to me that a game NOT optomized for SSE2 would slaughter the Athlon even when speeds were identical (P4 2.0B, Athlon XP 2400). It always made me feel something was broken.

Apparently it was.

Garg

I'm glad these came out, but it would have been nice if they came out before I had one hundred million frames per second. (or if I still played Q3).

FormFactor

Hmm, Ill have to install q3a again. give these a try.


It would be nice to see some benchmarks against the p4 now that the odds are evened out a bit.

LIQuid

can someone send me these.... if they have them, none of the mirrors work