also, as far as a delay setting up the screen is concerned: what kind of refresh rates are you specifying?
In general, things are very fast on my 2800+ / Radeon 9600Pro. If I specify a unreasonably high refreshrate in the Graphics command though, I do see an extensive delay before anything start appearing on the screen.
e.g. Hertz=500 gives me a 20 second delay before anything appears. when things finally appear the stepsizes of sprites it does appear that the internal logics of a game operate at that speed. (Sprites can move 5 times as far in the same interval as when specifying 100Hz)
In general, things are very fast on my 2800+ / Radeon 9600Pro. If I specify a unreasonably high refreshrate in the Graphics command though, I do see an extensive delay before anything start appearing on the screen.
e.g. Hertz=500 gives me a 20 second delay before anything appears. when things finally appear the stepsizes of sprites it does appear that the internal logics of a game operate at that speed. (Sprites can move 5 times as far in the same interval as when specifying 100Hz)