Elsa Gladiac 721TV-Out GeForce3 Ti200

Author : Wayne Date : 30th December 2001

3DVelocity would like to thank Elsa for their help and courtesy in providing this graphics card for review.

Performance Benchmarks :

DroneZ Mark :

In the words of the authors, DroneZ mixes an extremely hi-tech 3D engine (nGenius 2) with classic arcade gameplay in a unique setting with intriguing and rewarding visuals, and I'm certainly not going to argue. Gameplay may be old-school, but Paris-based game developer Zetha have used every visual trick in the OpenGL handbook to create a stunning world that puts great demands on your video subsytem.

 

FSAA Performance :

Finally let's see how much of a hit the 721 takes with anti-aliasing enabled. For this I ran the Quake3 Arena Timedemo 001 at various resolutions and with each of the four anti-aliasing options in action. Maximum quality settings were used.

You may notice a rather strange trend at the two higher resolutions of 1280x1024. At both of these resolutions, using 4xAA exceeded the storage available in the frame buffer and it appears that the GPU reverts back to 2xAA. It's a known fact that using 4xAA at 1600x1200-32bpp exceeds the buffer storage limits but it appears that this also happened at 1280x1024. Either way, it's not an issue specific to the Elsa 721, and I'd sooner it dropped to 2xAA than kicked me back to the desktop at a critical point in the game.

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