Re: Games you can play with a Riva 128?
Posted on 2015-07-16, 18:06
Riva 128 is one quirky, ugly, but fast (for 97) GPU.
Re: Rage Fury MAXX fairly viable in classic gaming?
Posted on 2015-07-16, 17:09
From what I gather, AGP doesn't support multiple devices. A Maximum PC article said the MAXX enumerates one GPU as AGP and the other as PCI.[1] Apparently this doesn't work on NT5. Ooops. Voodoo5 works differently.[2] Windows 9x is probably the best choice for a Rage card anyway though.
Re: Rage Fury MAXX fairly viable in classic gaming?
Posted on 2015-07-16, 02:11
It's probably quite viable for some games, but a GeForce 256 is faster and more flexible. I think there are fluidity problems with the early ATI AFR, and we also know ATI drivers weren't amazing back then.
Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0
Posted on 2015-07-15, 22:33
Aye to SM3. It knocks a lot of Unreal 3 based games off the table for X850 as well. Certainly a card that "lived fast and died young." :lol: Curiosity: Oblivion actually has SM3.0 effects? The HDR is SM3-based. With an R4x0 based card you can only use the "bloom" effect and it's decidedly less …
Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0
Posted on 2015-07-15, 22:27
Yeah I am aware of how 6800 Ultra and X800/X850 stack up. You can go back a page in that review and see how Doom3 stacks up on R4x0 too. Probably applies for Prey, Quake4, and ETQW as well. Another thing to think about with R4x0 vs. NV4x is the SM2 vs. SM3 perspective. I played Oblivion on a X850XT …
Re: Best PCI GFX for P-III?
Posted on 2015-07-15, 18:52
The 5600 is a slightly faster chip than the 5200/5500. I could see a 5200 Ultra being faster than some 5600s perhaps.
Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0
Posted on 2015-07-15, 17:26
I think Riddick also uses the Ultrashadow capability. And the other idTech4 games of course. I was digging around for info about it about a month ago. Apparently GCN supports the depth bounds test GL extension.
Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0
Posted on 2015-07-15, 16:26
GeForce 6 made major strides over GeForce FX in that area, but in many games it still lagged behind R400 with all settings maxed out. I thought NV40 and R400 were on fairly equal footing. Sure there were games where one side would win but there wasn't anything really extreme as with the previous …
Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0
Posted on 2015-07-15, 16:15
Frankly I think a lot of people bought FX cards because of vendor loyalty and not much else.
Re: The New Creative Labs Sound Blaster Drivers Collection. (Updated 6th Jan. 2014)
Posted on 2015-07-15, 05:31
vetz wrote: I believe I do 😀 I'll check and get back to you. Any luck finding that CD?
Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0
Posted on 2015-07-14, 20:36
I'm not sure if this (capacitor problems) is the entirety of the "R300 death issues" but I will say that over the years I've experienced a higher-than-expected rate of failure for R300 cards compared to other cards from that era (e.g. Radeon 9000, GeForce FX, etc), and heard the same from others …
Re: The Forgotten Noire of Internet Cafés
Posted on 2015-07-14, 19:44
I went to one back in the mid '90s. They had a Forte VFX-1 VR setup and I was able to try Mechwarrior 2 and Flight Unlimited. That's it though.
Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0
Posted on 2015-07-14, 18:32
NV solder issue has its own thread now.
Re: HD 2900XT
Posted on 2015-07-14, 17:32
Our projection machine at work has a Crossfire 4850 setup. Sadly AMD dropped support for it quite quickly, and there are no official drivers for Windows 8. We could sorta use the Windows 7 drivers, but they had some visual bugs in some cases. I had the same with the X1800/X1900 earlier, which …
Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0
Posted on 2015-07-14, 17:25
Thing is, many users have reported that a ghett0 reflow in their oven fixed their cards. Which wouldn't work if it was really the chip itself that had cracked. Also here's a story of Humus successfully ghett0-reflowing a Radeon from that era: http://www.humus.name/index.php?page=News&ID=283 That's …
Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0
Posted on 2015-07-14, 17:15
I have seen personally solder problems with 7900, 8600 and 8800. It tends to manifest as driver crashes, BSODs, or occasional display corruption. But I do have several 8600GT cards in use and an 8800GT that works fine too. However, that 8800GT needed a cooler replacement to become stable. The single …
Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0
Posted on 2015-07-14, 01:07
D'oh! You meant the game RAGE. :blush: I was thinking of "Rage" as in ATi Rage 128... :lol: :lol: Man I don't know how ATI even survived their Rage card era. Talk about driver horrors... Thank OEM sales for their survival, no doubt. Rage was a huge mess, it still is bad on my 5850, and I know …
Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0
Posted on 2015-07-14, 00:53
RAGE disaster? Remember when RAGE was released and basically didn't run on Radeons for the first 2 weeks? It was very slow and had problems like missing textures and crashes. It took about 3 months for AMD to iron out the problems with it. I remember 4 hotfix drivers? It was as if they had done no …
Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0
Posted on 2015-07-14, 00:38
NWN1 requires/uses palletized textures (I say slash because I've read some reports that the Diamond edition removed this requirement, but I'm not certain of that), which R300 doesn't support. I'm not sure about KOTOR. For KOTOR on a 8500-9800, Catalyst 4.2 is the one to use. There seem to be some …
Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0
Posted on 2015-07-13, 21:58
5900XT runs various D3D7/8 games considerably faster than a 9600XT. That's why people thought it was a good deal. It's primarily what the reviews were covering at the time. The childish name calling had better come to an abrupt end, by the way.
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