Re: WinXP Ultimate Legacy Video Cards

Posted on 2015-07-11, 18:09

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by swaaye

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Yeah with NV you can use NVidia Inspector to force sparse grid supersampling. It works with any GeForce 8 or newer chip. It can be troublesome with some games. You enable it by forcing normal 4X MSAA and 4X SGSSAA in the Transparency AA box. I don't know why they don't support it officially. It …

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Re: Rage 128 Pro

Posted on 2015-07-11, 17:56

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by swaaye

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F2bnp wrote: I didn't bother to check to be honest. Card checks out as Rage 128 Pro GL, so I'm guessing 125MHz? Did they pull a Matrox by not specifying exact clock speed with these? Yeah the clocks do vary considerably among the different cards. That's not a 64-bit RAM bus card is it?

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Re: Rage 128 Pro

Posted on 2015-07-11, 17:30

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by swaaye

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What are the clocks on the particular Rage 128 Pro you have?

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Re: Rage 128 Pro

Posted on 2015-07-11, 05:02

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by swaaye

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Bingo. Lots of people must have bought them back then for their excellent DVD playback. Image quality seemed alright for the most part, although I did notice some fuzziness. Can't say I agree with you guys on 32bit speed, the hit is still pretty substantial, e.g. running 800x600 32bit == 1024x768 …

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Re: Rage 128 Pro

Posted on 2015-07-11, 03:13

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by swaaye

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Image quality on rage 128 and 128 pro,should be ok when using 32 bits colour setting in games,also performance should't be affected much running games in 32 bits compared with 16bits. The bilinear filtering is a touch blocky. Some kind of precision reduction. I think there may also be a blending …

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Re: Rage 128 Pro

Posted on 2015-07-10, 22:57

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by swaaye

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Excellent cards for DVD playback. Supports almost the entire MPEG2 pipeline, including the iDCT process. Voodoo3 and TNT2 (or GeForce) can't touch this. 3D is fine too, though quality is lacking a bit. Their filtering isn't quite correct. It's a touch blocky.

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Re: WinXP Ultimate Legacy Video Cards

Posted on 2015-07-10, 19:12

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by swaaye

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With older games you should use SSAA or MSAA+TAA/AAA. The quality will be better. VSR/DSR are brute force methods to AA modern games that can't have those forced upon them.

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Re: The New Creative Labs Sound Blaster Drivers Collection. (Updated 6th Jan. 2014)

Posted on 2015-07-09, 03:14

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by swaaye

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Does someone have the install CD for a X-Fi Titanium (SB0880)? I apparently don't have one.... I am looking to run the oldest drivers that support these cards.

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Re: make old PC useful on modern internet/windows 7

Posted on 2015-07-09, 00:50

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by swaaye

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It is pretty easy to determine if Flash is using the GPU. HTML5 is mysterious.

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Re: What processor and graphics card is a good match for Need for Speed III?

Posted on 2015-07-09, 00:27

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by swaaye

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Davros wrote: You need at least a voodoo2 with 12mb the 8mb v2's dont have enough memory for the cockpit view (or is that nfs 4?) 2MB texture memory means no car dash. Voodoo2 8MB and Voodoo1 4MB.

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Re: make old PC useful on modern internet/windows 7

Posted on 2015-07-08, 19:06

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by swaaye

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Firefox seems to use H.264 for its HTML5 videos. Does anyone know if this decodes on a modern GPU then? I wish it was easier to determine exactly what is going on with web video and GPU decode... Something else I've noticed is Firefox tends to get better network utilization than Chrome on Windows XP …

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Re: Texture filtering quality comparison

Posted on 2015-07-07, 21:09

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by swaaye

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leileilol wrote: Does anyone have a Geforce2 result? I swore that had aniso too though I could be mistaken. GeForce2 does support it but I believe it is limited to 2x or 4x. I can't seem to find a control panel image.

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Re: 939 8gb rig AN8 or A8N??

Posted on 2015-07-07, 19:29

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by swaaye

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Well it sorta works. I wouldn't suggest it. The AN8 board doesn't officially support buffered ECC DIMMs and I would say it shows.

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Re: GF4 or Radeon9600

Posted on 2015-07-07, 18:50

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by swaaye

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Moved the texture filtering chat to a new thread Texture filtering quality comparison

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Re: K6-2 450

Posted on 2015-07-07, 18:28

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by swaaye

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Yeah if you use a video card with MPEG2 processing it is more manageable. Pure software decode is somewhat difficult to get smooth however. I was playing with this a few weeks ago. ASUS P5A and K6-3+ running from 200-600MHz. Tried a few different video cards. Voodoo3 as the software decode test. …

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Re: GF4 or Radeon9600

Posted on 2015-07-07, 04:55

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by swaaye

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The petals are angle dependence, You can also see optimized trilinear filtering in the jaggyness of the mipmap transitions. The 6150 is essentially doing bilinear filtering. With the DirectX 9 Radeons I think you can get better filtering with control panel tweaks. Not sure though. It doesn't really …

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Re: GF4 or Radeon9600

Posted on 2015-07-06, 18:04

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by swaaye

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I don't think I've noticed the filtering optimizations R300/R400 do. Geforce 5-7 are another story though. ATI was even frequently praised for their image quality compared to what NV was doing to compete. You can just set Geforce to HQ mode, but it has a speed cost. NV 50 series drivers were the …

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Re: GF4 or Radeon9600

Posted on 2015-07-05, 18:24

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by swaaye

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Yea the DirectX 7/8 Radeons have fairly ugly AF. AF cannot even be performed with trilinear filtering. But it could still look nice compared to standard blurred mipmaps of other chips, and the speed hit was minimal.

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Texture filtering quality comparison

Posted on 2015-07-05, 05:11

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by swaaye

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9600's AF is a lot less demanding than GF4's, but also looks a bit less nice. It's hard to notice though. 9600 also has some trilinear filtering optimizations that people called "brilinear" that sped trilinear filtering up as well for the little chip. Again it reduced image quality but it's not easy …

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Re: Voodoo Banshee

Posted on 2015-07-05, 05:08

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by swaaye

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Banshee is a fine choice for a K6-3, similar to a Voodoo2 in speed but capable of higher resolution, more texture storage, and packing an excellent VGA / GUI engine.

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