Hardware T&L in 3d Mark

[q_bot_w11]

I have a GeForce2 MX and enabling hardware T&L worsens my 3d mark. Should this be the case?

[JustAnEngineer]

In most current games, GeForce2 and GeForce2MX cards are bottlenecked by memory bandwidth at 1024x768x32. The GeForce2MX/MX400 is especially limited by its 128-bit SDR SDRAM compared to the 128-bit DDR memory on the GeForce2 GTS/Pro/Ti. The GeForce2MX200 is doubly-castrated by its puny 64-bit SDR memory bus.

When you enable hardware T&L, even more data is sent back and forth for each pixel. Your card is probably already bottlenecked by its available bandwidth in this demo, so you end up going slower.

[dmitriylm]

My scores increased when I used T&L on my Geforce2 MX. Maybe your cpu is fast enough to handle T&L operations on its own? I used a 1Ghz tbird.

[q_bot_w11]

What score do you get on your tbird 1ghz?

I get 1500 ish without T+L. With T+L it drops sometimes as low as 700. Should I be getting more?