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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Re: 939 8gb rig AN8 or A8N??

Posted on 2015-07-05, 00:23

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by swaaye

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Getting 4 of these DIMMs going is nigh impossible. I think it might be working at DDR200 speed but it's hard to be positive it's stable. The power off issue is a parity error being detected I think. Overall I don't suggest AN8 for 2GB registered PC3200. Socket 939 in general is a pain in the rear …

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Re: AGP falling back to PCI on Aladdin V. HELP

Posted on 2015-07-04, 22:33

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by swaaye

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Mamba wrote: I think I need to modify the registry of the forceware somehow to prevent them to do it. Don't know how. Rivatuner can change the NV AGP settings but you are likely to have problems....

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Re: AGP falling back to PCI on Aladdin V. HELP

Posted on 2015-07-04, 21:27

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by swaaye

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Look up Ali AGP Utility 1.40 for an easy way to see the Aladdin AGP parameters. I'm not sure how stable any geforce or radeon can be on this chipset though.

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Re: 939 8gb rig AN8 or A8N??

Posted on 2015-07-04, 17:01

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by swaaye

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I got it working. It was RAM timing that was causing the shutdown. I had to set RAS Precharge to 6T. However, it appears that ECC is disabled. http://s9.postimg.org/8evbs4d0r/Clipboard01.png http://s9.postimg.org/u00efq9rf/Clipboard02.png http://s9.postimg.org/l7jfs1omj/Clipboard03.png

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Re: 939 8gb rig AN8 or A8N??

Posted on 2015-07-04, 01:51

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by swaaye

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I got 8GB of ECC DDR PC3200 and have tried it. The system POSTs and I can run Memtest86+ fine with 2x2GB installed. All 4GB is recognized. However, trying to boot XP or a Vista x64 install CD causes the system to power off and this is 100% repeatable. I can't determine what is causing this. I …

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Re: Need Help finding ATI drivers

Posted on 2015-07-03, 20:32

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by swaaye

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Probably August 2003. 😉 Why go that far back though? The oldest driver I use for a R300 or later card is Catalyst 4.2 and that's only for KOTOR.

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Re: K6-2 450

Posted on 2015-07-02, 19:03

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by swaaye

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More interesting. Yes, a K6-2/3 will be a gimpy game machine. You can also see the thrill that people who upgraded from K6 to Duron experienced. :) https://web.archive.org/web/20040218102625/http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=15000172 https://web.archive.org/web/20031229013654/http://www. …

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Re: S3 Savage 2000

Posted on 2015-07-02, 18:43

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by swaaye

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OldUnreal has an OpenGL renderer (UTGLR) that supports S3TC. It works on any card with at least DirectX 8 compliance. The DirectX 9 renderer can do it too. Glide does detail textures fine but has no S3TC support. Voodoo1 and 2 run low on texture memory with UT though. Voodoo1 4MB and Voodoo2 8MB …

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Re: S3 Savage 2000

Posted on 2015-07-02, 05:36

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by swaaye

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I loved the look of the detail textures in Unreal and UT. Is the Metal renderer stuttering strangely at all with them?

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