Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019
Posted on 2018-06-14, 14:12
Re: Keyboard + Mouse advice
Posted on 2018-06-08, 00:19
Can't go wrong with Intellimouse. Low DPI for low-res applications, capable of PS/2 with five buttons, has historical value, and to appease OCD sufferers, it's a Microsoft mouse to be used with a Microsoft operating system.
Re: Whats the difference DX6 vs DX7
Posted on 2018-06-06, 12:14
As far as I am aware of, all DX7 class hardware also supports per-pixel lighting and dot product bump mapping.
Re: Surprisingly demanding old 3D games
Posted on 2018-04-14, 19:25
swaaye wrote: Sure. But NV also used to say GF2GTS was meant for your 1600x1200 enjoyment. For running the most rudimentary 3D applications, sure. It becomes evident that such high pixel counts are very limiting on that thing just by looking at its specs alone.
Re: Voodoo 3 IQ question (Quake 3)
Posted on 2018-04-05, 20:10
The overbrights in Quake3 requires the whole scene to be generally made darker (128 or 0.5 at best for many textures) for a higher lighting volume, pretty much halving color precision (on any hardware) with the brightness automatically cranked up. This will also make the dithering (as well as the …
Re: Fog Table & 8-bit Paletted Textures
Posted on 2018-03-09, 21:01
They were 3dfx hardware enabled features. Even the contemporary NVIDIA gear predating the GeForce 256 lacked paletted textures and only supported table fog through emulation. Table fog makes a visual difference in stuff as late as Thief II (2000). Final Fantasy VII (1998) refused to enable D3D …
Re: Are Voodoo graphics card THAT good ?
Posted on 2018-02-25, 16:40
leileilol wrote: Remember that Q3's appearance is intended to have feature parity on a GL 1.1 base level without any extensions Doesn't the brightness control essentially count as an extension, though? I don't think it was supported on Windows NT at the time.
Re: Are Voodoo graphics card THAT good ?
Posted on 2018-02-24, 09:33
The fact that even the Voodoo 3 doesn't support the OpenGL combiner extension has led me to believe that this is Id Software's rationale for using the ubiquitously-supported feature of manipulating video brightness for the purpose of widening the dynamic range in Quake 3, at the cost of colour …
Re: Half-dead ELSA Erazor X2 (GeForce 256 DDR)
Posted on 2018-01-05, 15:16
Goodness, put a NSFW warning on that link.
Re: Oldest graphics card with openGL 2.1 support?
Posted on 2017-12-26, 06:05
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/11/en-us This might not actually be 2.1
Re: TOP 5 videocards of all time
Posted on 2017-12-26, 03:26
Voodoo 5 Voodoo 4 Voodoo 3 Voodoo 2 Voodoo 1 *This post was sponsored by 3dfx
Re: Image Quality of various old video cards (Quake 3 comparison)
Posted on 2017-12-17, 18:28
Found some related comparison in my archives, which I did 7 years ago. Radeon X1950XTX vs GeForce 8800 Ultra in Bioshock, both under Windows XP. Quality of shading was much improved with DX10 hardware. I have a 7900 GTX lying around somewhere, a perfect match for the X1950XTX. I'll try to get it …
Re: Suddenly can't edit posts anymore?
Posted on 2017-12-15, 17:11
Oh, so that's why they were posted? To protest against the absence of editing? I don't think upsetting those who are sensitive to graphic material is productive, though
Games using NVIDIA register combiners
Posted on 2017-12-12, 15:35
After recently becoming fascinated by the power of the DX7 generation of NVIDIA chips, I wanted to see how games have been exploiting it in various ways. I am just not aware of many games that make use of it one way or another, at least not with OpenGL. The only title that pops into my mind is Doom …
Re: Image Quality of various old video cards (Quake 3 comparison)
Posted on 2017-12-10, 14:30
So it took three whole generations of graphics to address this? I wonder what made it so difficult to properly implement DXT1 compared to DXT3.
Re: Half-Life overbright compatibility
Posted on 2017-12-06, 02:25
Using a tool to enable OpenGL extension limiting on the NVIDIA drivers results in a functional gl_overbright in Half-Life Steam on a modern PC. Unfortunately, without multitexture support, detail textures are also disabled. Wouldn't it be insanely easy to have both by using GL_RGB_SCALE? As a bonus, …
Re: DOS games with weird resolutions?
Posted on 2017-11-15, 23:33
leileilol wrote: Jazz Jackrabbit (320x199) An uneven number? But why
Re: TMU & Pipeline Clarification
Posted on 2017-11-07, 12:51
This should enable eight full texture blends at 60 FPS. Is this reasoning valid? Well, not entirely. The GeForce256 can still perform two textures in a single pass, if I'm not mistaken. It just has less TMUs. So the second texture read can still be done in just 4 extra bytes. But you will get …
Re: TMU & Pipeline Clarification
Posted on 2017-11-07, 00:21
That does clear some things up. I thought the pipelines with their single TMUs would work together by each processing their own texture, combining the results together just as they are about to be sent to the framebuffer. So I suppose that the second texture stage is initialized right away, avoiding …
Re: TMU & Pipeline Clarification
Posted on 2017-11-06, 21:30
Of course, if you only used one texture, the other TMU sat there idling. I was under the impression that the Geforce's Quadpipe allowed it to work with multiple adjacent pixels in parallel, rendering a single texture with full speed, while a single pipeline setup with multitexturing (Voodoo 2) …
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