Quake 2 Demo1

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We experienced some nasty flickering problems in Quake 2 while we were testing the normal S540 card. The timedemos played fine, but we noticed the screen was constantly flashing in the menus, during the demo, and while we were running around an empty map. We'll blame it on the beta drivers for now. Strangely, the normal Savage S540 card scored very well in the Quake 2 300A 640 x 480 benchmarks, but we'll also attribute the Savage 4's 640 x 480 score to the buggy drivers.

The Xtreme didn't have any flickering problems in Quake 2 with the 1.03 drivers. We did notice that the benchmark scores were about 10% higher when we tested the Xtreme with the Savage 4 beta drivers, but the annoying flickering more than outweighs the benefits of the extra framerate.