Why neither ATI nor nVidia use Fragment AA?

Posted on 2006-12-08, 16:54

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by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Well, I'm talking about the 16x Fragment Anti-Aliasing originally used by Matrox Parhelia. The AA method only takes "fragment pixels" (pixels on the edge of an object) and then collects 16 sub-pixel samples for AA purpose. Theoritically, this method means way bigger sample size with less fill rate …

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Re: "Best of Both World" sound card? (EAX and A3D)

Posted on 2006-12-07, 16:19

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It means it won't sound right, most likely. A3D 1.0 isn't nearly as neat as 2.0 anyway. Lots of games use EAX higher than 2.0. EAX is by far the most popular standard and is supported by almost every modern game. EAX 3 on up adds more than just new reverb too. It does obstructions, for example. …

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Re: I keep picking villains for my avatars....

Posted on 2006-12-04, 16:44

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So when are we going to see Dr. Evil? 😀

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Re: I keep picking villains for my avatars....

Posted on 2006-12-04, 16:40

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That's Dr. Loveless from Wild Wild West TV series, am I correct?

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Re: creative isa, sb16 and vibra 16, what is the difference?

Posted on 2006-12-04, 16:17

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Do you mean CTCM, It's for all SB PnP and it doesn't eat memory. It just sets it up. No, it is not CTCM for sure. I think it's "pre-CTCM" of some sort. I don't kinda remember, but IIRC the name of the file is something like DWCFGMG.SYS or such (sorry, I don't remember the exact wording, I left that …

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Re: creative isa, sb16 and vibra 16, what is the difference?

Posted on 2006-12-04, 01:58

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I have a Vibra 16. IIRC it is an ISA Plug and Play card, so it needs a TSR driver to run in DOS (the driver is not for the sound card, but for DMA setting, IRQ setting, etc). I don't know whether I happen to own the model, or all Vibra 16 cards need such driver to run in DOS, though.

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Re: "Best of Both World" sound card? (EAX and A3D)

Posted on 2006-12-03, 12:28

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There aren't any cards that do A3D 2.0 as well as a Vortex 2. Creative's cards wrap A3D 1.x to EAX. Does it mean lower audio quality, higher CPU usage, or both? I think higher CPU usage won't be much problem these days, so if wrapping A3D 1.x to EAX only means higher CPU usage (but no degradation …

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Re: Windows partition kind?

Posted on 2006-11-30, 08:14

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hajime wrote: I am planning to make a Windows 98 and a DOS partition (2 of them), and I know that for the DOS one, the type is FAT32... But what kind of partition is that of Windows? If you're already using FAT32 for DOS, there's no point of using FAT16 for Windows, so use FAT32 for that one too.

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Re: "Best of Both World" sound card? (EAX and A3D)

Posted on 2006-11-30, 05:05

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Update: I just remember about some utility called Aureal A2D , which can run A3D games on non-A3D sound cards. Of course it is CPU-hungry, but with today's CPU, I guess it won't matter. IIRC it can A3D 2.0 games too. So I guess the problem is setteld with A3D. Even without A3D sound card, we can …

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Re: "Best of Both World" sound card? (EAX and A3D)

Posted on 2006-11-30, 02:55

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The problem with A3D 2.0 is that it was only supported by Aureal's Vortex 2 chips. The algorithims are based in hardware, and it was too expensive to license it and support it in competitors' chips. Also, supporting it in software caused too much of a performance hit during the day. But how about …

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Re: "Best of Both World" sound card? (EAX and A3D)

Posted on 2006-11-29, 11:02

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Sometimes I wonder how PC audio would be like if Creative actually made their stuff themselves instead of ripping it out of their dead competitors. We could have cheap, high quality MIDI (E-MU), compatibility with ISA cards (Ensoniq), superior 3D sound (Aureal), and Dolby Digital encoding in …

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Re: "Best of Both World" sound card? (EAX and A3D)

Posted on 2006-11-29, 02:25

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I thought the Audigy2 supported the lot? Though I can't say I've really looked into it, my MX300 is just fine for all my needs. What is the highest A3D version supported by Audigy2? What's the highest EAX supported by MX300? See, it's such things that I'm thinking about. I'm actually looking for …

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System Shock Portable?

Posted on 2006-11-28, 16:27

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Uh, I don't know if you guys have heard about this, but it seems I just found a portable version of System Shock here. The page is temporarily closed due to high traffic, so I couldn't find FAQ or anything, but the it still provides a download link for the game. Could it be dream come true?

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Re: Help with building retro PC

Posted on 2006-11-28, 08:54

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Great Hierophant wrote: A very concise analysis. However, I would like to make a few observations: If you are one of the lucky few to find a Quantum3D Obsidian2 X-24, you would only need one ISA slot Nitpick: you mean PCI slot, don't you? 😉

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"Best of Both World" sound card? (EAX and A3D)

Posted on 2006-11-28, 03:46

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Well, I guess it's kinda typical for today's sound card to support EAX and Aureal 3D. However, such sound cards usually only provide A3D 1.0, not 2.0. Diamond Monster MX300, on the other hand, supports A3D 2.0 and EAX. However, it doesn't support EAX Advanced HD. So which sound card is the best in …

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Re: RAM in DOS

Posted on 2006-11-28, 02:41

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The amount of memory detected depend on the version of himem.sys you use. Some detect only 64MB, other can detect up to 4GB (max in 32 bit addressing) Makes me wonder: will the amount of detected memory cause incompatibility problems? (ie: certain DOS games won't run, etc) See, such thing actually …

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Re: The Windows 9x PC

Posted on 2006-11-27, 02:03

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MB - The P3B-F offers one major advantage over the P2B models, a jumperless motherboard. It can probably support later PIIIs better than the older boards as well. This is vital for underclocking the CPU. Older boards have 2 ISA slots, newer boards only 1 ISA slot. I wonder: is there any PIII mobo …

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Re: How (in)compatible MS-DOS 7 is?

Posted on 2006-11-25, 15:26

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by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Whoa, you mean turning off the CPU caches? Should I go to BIOS, or are there utilities (small .EXE, etc) for that purpose? There are several tools to switch off the L1 cache, however, I'm not so sure about L2. Better use the BIOS settings instead (if that's still possible on a P4 motherboard) :wink …

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Re: Voodoo 5 single processor option

Posted on 2006-11-25, 14:34

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by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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I just had a look on my Voodoo 5 machine, which uses Amigamerlin drivers in Windows 2000. There are anti-aliasing seetings under OpenGL and DirectX, which allow a choice between 2x, 4x, disabled, fastest performance etc., and also have an option for single processor [no AA]. So at least in Windows …

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Re: The Games of Lost Hope

Posted on 2006-11-24, 13:44

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Greetings, Is the a listing anywhere for the DOS or Windows games that either "just aren't going to run no matter what" or had 3Dfx support built into them and therefore won't work with Glidos or Glide wrappers? I'm referring to games that didn't get Direct3d support, so the only way to get …

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