Gimpy:
Video cards that come with computers from places like Best Buy, are rarely "relatively good".
3D Studio Max and Maya are poor benchmarks to use for 3D processing power. I don't even know if they use any 3D acceleration by default.
Flameduck, here's the Vanta page:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/vanta.html
"Leveraging the NVIDIA TNT architecture"
Gimpy:
I was using a TNT based card about five years ago. That's anchient by today's standards.
Doom runs fine? Do you mean Doom 3? I suppose it's possible that if they turn off every single special effect it might, since the models are so low poly. But that doesn't mean your card is good.
Go to that website I linked, and download the drivers there. I suspect BlitzMax runs so slow because you're using the OpenGL drivers, and OpenGL if I remember correctly was poorly supported way back when. Maybe your drivers are old. Or maybe Nvidia didn't care to make good OpenGL drivers for your card. If that is the case maybe you can set the Max renderer to the Direct3D one, but I'm new to the language myself so I don't know how you do that.
Video cards that come with computers from places like Best Buy, are rarely "relatively good".
3D Studio Max and Maya are poor benchmarks to use for 3D processing power. I don't even know if they use any 3D acceleration by default.
Flameduck, here's the Vanta page:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/vanta.html
"Leveraging the NVIDIA TNT architecture"
Gimpy:
I was using a TNT based card about five years ago. That's anchient by today's standards.
Doom runs fine? Do you mean Doom 3? I suppose it's possible that if they turn off every single special effect it might, since the models are so low poly. But that doesn't mean your card is good.
Go to that website I linked, and download the drivers there. I suspect BlitzMax runs so slow because you're using the OpenGL drivers, and OpenGL if I remember correctly was poorly supported way back when. Maybe your drivers are old. Or maybe Nvidia didn't care to make good OpenGL drivers for your card. If that is the case maybe you can set the Max renderer to the Direct3D one, but I'm new to the language myself so I don't know how you do that.