Re: 233MMX, what PCI Graphics card?
Posted on 2017-05-04, 08:58
Voodoo 3 PCI.
Re: Image Quality of various old video cards (Quake 3 comparison)
Posted on 2017-05-03, 19:57
Even sliding the texture quality to maximum in the nvidia driver control panel, on period-proper detonators? How many times do I have to tell - "Any GeForce from original 256 to 7xxx series on any driver"? And if nobody can remember how actually texture compression looks like in Quake 3... well, …
Re: Image Quality of various old video cards (Quake 3 comparison)
Posted on 2017-05-02, 17:06
You've missed the point completely. Quake 3 is just an example and problem itself is much more global. For the record I've never had any of these ugly Not noticing something =/= not having it. I was oblivious too for a long time. And for the record, even TNT2 is much better in that regard. r_ext_ …
Re: Image Quality of various old video cards (Quake 3 comparison)
Posted on 2017-05-01, 12:31
Kyro 1 Radeon SDR/DDR/7200 Radeon 7000/VE Results will be pretty much identical to Kyro II and Radeon 7500 respectively, but I'am not stopping anyone to try. V2 SLI and V3, maybe V1 if it can run Q3 decently V1/V2/V3 cards can be tested in Unreal/Unreal Tournament as an alternative. It's easy to …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-04-30, 23:26
Skyscraper wrote: Name another video card and I will tell you why it's worse than the Geforce FX5900 Ultra That's doubtful сuz you need 3dfx anyway, and none of GeForce cards can do things properly.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-04-30, 22:33
Ah, infamous lead-free BGA problem. I have 3 8800 Ultra and none of them are working right now because of that problem. No problem with Quadro variants though, but they tend to run cooler and overclock less. Don't get me wrong here, nVidia did some very good engineering over the last 2 decades but …
Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)
Posted on 2017-04-27, 13:43
appiah4 wrote: so you can't really hold its abundance of VRAM against it, it actually cost less despite more memory IIRC. Kyro II was released in early 2001 and GTS in early 2000.
Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)
Posted on 2017-04-27, 12:05
Recent GeForce 2 GTS vs Kyro II comparison does not specify how much VRAM both cards have. Most likely it's 32mb (GTS) vs 64mb (Kyro II) showdown, where heavy tests just demonstrate VRAM bottleneck instead of pure performance difference between this cards.
Re: How is 16-bit dithering controlled?
Posted on 2017-04-24, 20:25
If it was there, then wasn't, then was again Once again - you can't get dithering on Fermi, Kepler and Maxwell GPUs with fresh drivers. Period. So it seems like anything after G80 and before Pascal series just can't render 16-bit modes. Also you still get dithering on any card before G80 with …
Re: How is 16-bit dithering controlled?
Posted on 2017-04-24, 17:54
swaaye wrote: FP16 is a floating point number precision. I know, but only GPUs with that feature suddenly got 16-bit dithering back. I can't get dithering on the Kepler or Maxwell based GPU.
Re: How is 16-bit dithering controlled?
Posted on 2017-04-24, 15:21
on my 1070 It support ditherting? Interesting, probably that's why: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-and-1070-founders-edition-review/5 Speaking of architectural details, I know that the question of FP16 (half precision) compute performance has been of significant …
Re: How is 16-bit dithering controlled?
Posted on 2017-04-23, 19:13
Both Nvidia and AMD dropped 16-bit dithering completely. Most likely they even can't do 16-bit mode and just internally scale it to 32-bit.
Re: Image Quality of various old video cards (Quake 3 comparison)
Posted on 2017-04-23, 18:24
Curious if V3 can match V4/5.. You can do some screenshots via HyperSnap for comparison. Otherwise the severity of banding Some color gradation is expected, due to low resolution of the sky layers and limitations of 32bit color. On the other hand, blocky bits are not expected with linear filtering.
Re: Image Quality of various old video cards (Quake 3 comparison)
Posted on 2017-04-23, 17:09
Radeon 7500 Quake 3 Sky Radeon 7500 - 1.png Quake 3 Sky Radeon 7500 - 1 edge.png Quake 3 Sky Radeon 7500 - 2.png Quake 3 Sky Radeon 7500 - 2 edge.png Radeon 7500 Driver info.png Quality of linear filtering is kinda bad, but still better than GeForce. From best to worst so far: Voodoo 4/5 > Riva TNT2 …
Re: How is 16-bit dithering controlled?
Posted on 2017-04-23, 12:00
some games just refuse to use dithering regardless Examples?
Re: Image Quality of various old video cards (Quake 3 comparison)
Posted on 2017-04-22, 23:11
Meanwhile I've tested Riva TNT2 Pro, result are kinda interesting. It's definitely less blocky, but not on par with super smooth Voodoo 4/5. Riva TNT2 Quake3 Sky TNT2.png Riva TNT2 edge Quake3 Sky TNT2 edge.png Voodoo 4 lossless Quake3 Sky Voodoo 4.png Voodoo 4 lossless edge Quake3 Sky Voodoo 4 edge …
Re: PCI vs Older AGP
Posted on 2017-04-22, 19:51
If clocks are faster - yes, will be faster in general.
Re: PCI vs Older AGP
Posted on 2017-04-22, 19:27
fsmith2003 wrote: If I were to take a PCI card from say 1999 or 2000 with slightly more Memory and Clock speeds would it equal out to a slower 1998 era AGP card. Nope. PCI won't hurt perfomance that bad to equalize them, unless you're pushing vram limits, which may require some use of AGP texturing …
Re: What Radeon card for a 800 P3?
Posted on 2017-04-22, 13:26
PhilsComputerLab wrote: looks noticeably worse than the one I supplied Another map, different sky texture. Q3DM5 please. Pattern didn't change though - color transitions are still blocky.
Re: What Radeon card for a 800 P3?
Posted on 2017-04-22, 12:48
PhilsComputerLab wrote: And another one with a dark cloud? Pretty much same thing: Filename Quake 3 GeForce edge Phil's DVI capture.png File size 462.46 KiB Views 2040 views Looks like Quadro series are plagued as well.
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