Pocket Loox Performance Test

[David Horn]

[James S]

[David Horn]

[James S]

Read about the Zayo Xscale pocket pc. It gets 56fps in PocketTV, whereas the iPaq XScale gets 22fps. I'm pretty sure that optimizations are on the way...

[Mike Bannick]

oh well the human eye can only recognise 30 fps

[James S]

I know I can recognize up to 120FPS. I know if Q3 drops below 90FPS when I'm playing online. 45 is just horrible, I don't even want to think about it. My monitor refresh at 140Hz, too, just in case you were wondering.

[TechMage]

I got my Jornada 568 to play Quake at 9.6 FPS with JS Overclock.

Maybe that new Asus Pocket PC will run Quake at 15 FPS. That would kick arse.

[benkenobi0]

Hey, how can you tell how fast it's running, I want to compare stuff with a friend.

[TechMage]

[Guest]

on the asus my pal quake runs at 10.3 fps.

[mali.]

on the asus my pal quake runs at 10.3 fps.

[James S]

sounds genuine to me.

[Guest]

[James S]

It gets 10.3FPS on the Asus MyPal A600. The Asus has no special video chip inside of it, that's the ATI Imageon inside Toshiba's e740 and it actually makes it run slower.

[sponge]

I believe the new devices use a hardware blitter, or something to that effect, that takes off quite a bit of load from the processor. According to jadam, Imageon speed ups are on the way.. but you can never be sure wtf jadam is talking about :P

The human eye can see 60 FPS, though tests have found the "sweet spot" to be 60-90FPS. Anyone that says higher probably is more of a placebo type thing. Most monitors refresh at 60hz, though people who know what they're doing will have it at 85hz, so it's drawing no more than 85 frames a second. Usually getting a refresh rate over 85hz is hard in higher resolutions.

If the video card/driver was for a 3D card, you'd be right. But here the processor is doing ALL the work, and anything to take the load off the processor will speed it up.