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Re: Direct3D, "Shaders", nomenclature fun

Posted on 2017-06-20, 20:57

appiah4 wrote: ATi TRUFORM on R200 hardware was lightyears ahead of what the competition was doing Quake 3 engine - Bézier curves. Messiah/Sacrifice - custom tesselation engine with T&L support.

Re: Quadro4 vs Geforce 4 in W89SE gaming rig

Posted on 2017-06-19, 18:58

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

No major benefits or losses.

Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-06-18, 11:13

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

In older games you only really saw big gains at higher resolutions. That's mainly because of the CPU bottleneck in such old games. I actually compared the two when I looked at 4x2 NVIDIA architectures You forgot to mention that GeForce 4 had two vertex shader units (three for FX 5900). sometimes …

Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-06-17, 20:39

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

Scali wrote: This is pointless. Of course it is, since you have no proof. Anandtech article with default settings and old Athlon 1ghz/Sdram test bench is a joke.

Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-06-17, 20:05

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

In cherry-picked (synthetic) benchmarks, yes. In real life, absolutely not. You're wrong again. http://www.ixbt.com/video2/over2k4-ss-1024.shtml http://www.ixbt.com/video2/over2k4-ut-1024.shtml http://www.ixbt.com/video2/over2k4-cd-1024.shtml By the way it's really nice article (very huge amount of …

Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-06-17, 14:31

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

Scali wrote: I think his point is that it's not 1.5x-2x It is. http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/gf3ti500/index.html

Re: Canopus pure 3d issues.

Posted on 2017-06-17, 13:52

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

Richie31 wrote: Is the card broke or is it another issue? Thanks guys. Your card is broken, it's TMU memory failure. You can try to underclock it though.

Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-06-17, 13:28

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

I remember people touting they were "Future Proof" because of DX8 They were in fact. You can't play Silent Hill 3 and Prince of Persia with DX7 hardware. The geforce 3s werent significantly faster than top of the line Geforce 2s but offered DX8 capabilities 1.5x-2x increase in performance is a …

Re: VGA Digital Output

Posted on 2017-06-16, 22:26

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

Yep, Voodoo 2 SLI is analog. At least it's true for mainstream cards. Quantum3D cards could be digital though.

Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-06-16, 22:14

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

I just wanted to mention that you guys are insane Those who bid that much for a "cooked" video card (back of the card near GPU area) are probably insane. Yeah I've been halfheartedly thinking of getting an 8800 GTX or Ultra again. Probably should invest in dual GPU cards. 9800GX2 and first GTX295 …

Re: Diagnosing a Voodoo 3 3000 (scrambled/columns)

Posted on 2017-06-15, 20:05

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

Kyosho wrote: There's no superficial damage to any, at least. Check temperature. One of them could be overheating, indicating failure.

Re: Diagnosing a Voodoo 3 3000 (scrambled/columns)

Posted on 2017-06-15, 19:43

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

Memory perhaps?

Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-06-15, 18:21

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

Yes, GeForce 256 have full support for DOT3 bumpmapping, but it's quite slow. http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/gf2hwtl

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-06-14, 11:47

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Another rare find - ASUS Deluxe versions of GeForce 4 Ti 4600 and 4200. Filename ASUS GeForce 4 Ti Deluxe cards.jpg File size 1.88 MiB Views 889 views You don't want to know how cheap they were 😈

Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-06-13, 19:07

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

"Fully boxed" tag have no value for this cards. There's nothing interesting in there.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-06-13, 19:02

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So far I've tested only GeForce 6600GT and HSI bridge had no problems with 440BX chipset. If I'am no mistaken, someone here mentioned about Galaxy 7600GS working with AGP 3.3v board.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-06-13, 14:44

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you possibly the most powerful AGP 3.3v compatible video card - Galaxy GeForce 7900GS AGP! Filename Galaxy 7900GS AGO front.jpg File size 939.96 KiB Views 1160 views Filename Galaxy 7900GS AGP back.jpg File size 1.35 MiB Views 1160 views Also Sparkle 6600GT: …

Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-06-13, 13:57

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote: Yeah but first Titan's will drop down to be 20 dollar cards for like 2 years. Doubtful. They sit right in the middle of mainstream (GeForce) and pro cards (Quadro) with somewhat limited quantity. Will be cheap sure, but not dirt cheap.