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Sunday, October 3, 1999

UT D3D Speed Up -- 10:36 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I saw on the Unreal Tournament.com that D3D users can get a major speed boost by turning off the HUD. I was skeptical, but I tried it. WOW! My average framerate jumped from 28 to 35-37 at 640x480x16 on my TNT! They said they are working closely with NVIDIA and others to find a way to get that to work better in D3D. The long and the short? UT went from being virtually unplayable online to being playable. That's a Good Thing (tMS) in anyone's book.

Update: I just played the same level twice (DM-Tempest: up to 30 kills with five bots), once with no HUD, once with just the little health and armor indicators at the bottom. No HUD: 33 fps, Little bitty HUD: 30.5 fps. Obviously the conditions weren't exactly the same, but I tried to stay in the thick of the action as much as possible. It does show that even a little HUD has a big framerate impact. Fortunately you can set the game for no HUD, then just hit - when you need to peek at it and = to make it go away again.

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