Re: Proprietary 3D API's
Posted on 2008-05-01, 19:05
What was the #9 Verite card called? I thought they canned that card.
Re: Proprietary 3D API's
Posted on 2008-04-29, 23:35
i've never seen vquake actually. Is the dynamic light a big orange glowy ball similar to GLQuake? PNG screenies? It's hard to zoom in and study with the JPG artifacts getting in the way. WYSIWYG :) It's not as good as GLQuake, but is a lot better than plain Quake. No transparent water. You get …
Re: Proprietary 3D API's
Posted on 2008-04-29, 20:11
S3 S3D By the way, the only hardware-accelerated version of Terminal Velocity is for the S3 Virge (S3D). It actually runs pretty well, too. So does the Tomb Raider Virge patch actually. Virge can look somewhat better than Voodoo1, believe it or not, because Voodoo1 has a very blurry filtering …
Re: Proprietary 3D API's
Posted on 2008-04-29, 19:59
I messed around with IndyCar 2 and its Verite patch a year ago or so. It actually is very good looking, fast, and uses anti-aliasing for a very clean look. I was very impressed with the anti-aliasing because AA is certainly not something that gets used frequently in games even today. A couple of …
Re: Proprietary 3D API's
Posted on 2008-04-29, 04:27
There's a Canopus Total3D (V1000) on eBay right now. It's the same as the Sierra Screamin' 3D. http://cgi.ebay.com/Canopus-Total-3D-Verite-PCI-Video-Card_W0QQitemZ150241067640QQihZ005QQcategoryZ3762QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Here's a Diamond Stealth II S220 (Verite V2100). BTW, Diamond …
Re: Proprietary 3D API's
Posted on 2008-04-26, 18:54
There's Panzer Dragoon and Virtua Fighter 2, I believe, that were ported from Saturn for NV1. NV1 and Saturn use similar rendering techniques. Rendition RRedline/Speedy3D is at least somewhat "forward compatible". You can run VQuake on V2x00, for example. I think quite a few V1000-only games got …
Re: Which gfx card to choose?
Posted on 2008-04-23, 18:03
The only answer is a PIII-E 600 or so! 😈 I found that it took that much CPU to get Cybermage completely smooth in SVGA, if you can believe it. With the wicked fast VGA core of a GeForce FX, no less. A PIII-450 wasn't quite enough. I was a little stunned, honestly.
Re: Pentium 3 - 500 Enough for Win98 Racing Games?
Posted on 2008-04-20, 22:36
Should do the trick. And a Radeon 7500 is a lot faster than a Voodoo2 if you have the choice in a game. I'd use the 7500 for D3D/Opengl and the Voodoo2 just for Glide. If you run into any problems with DOS games and that Radeon, try a GeForce instead. GeForce FX is excellent for DOS and D3D/OpenGL. …
Re: Which gfx card to choose?
Posted on 2008-04-16, 20:39
Well it's just that it was designed primarily for GUI use. Apparently they couldn't be bothered to develop a decent VGA engine and just outsourced to the cheapest alternative. It's also possible that they couldn't integrate a VGA engine with a GUI accelerator due to manufacturing limits back then …
Re: Voodoo 4500/PCI is actually *slower* than a 3000/AGP!
Posted on 2008-04-16, 17:50
UltraDMA/33 shouldn't be able to burst at more than 33MB/s. Strange... You should get yourself a cheap UltraDMA 100/133 card. I only use the onboard controllers on old boards for CDROMs.
Re: Which gfx card to choose?
Posted on 2008-04-16, 17:29
I had a Viper VLB once. It used a Oak chip for DOS. It is very, very slow in DOS. The Number Nine Imagine 128 does the same thing actually, with a Windows accelerator chip and a cheap, slow secondary chip for VGA compatibility. The Windows drivers are questionable for Viper, especially if you are …
Re: Voodoo 4500/PCI is actually *slower* than a 3000/AGP!
Posted on 2008-04-15, 17:48
Yeah I'd lean towards either bus contention with other cards or a poor PCI implementation with low bandwidth. A way to test that would be a buffered HDD transfer rate test from say HDTach. If say your UltraDMA/133 drive is only pulling 50MB/s buffered, that's not good. BTW, an AGP Voodoo card only …
Re: Voodoo2 vs. Voodoo3/5
Posted on 2008-04-11, 19:45
2.3 Ghz is usually where the mobile Barton's start to want more than 1.65v. 2500 MHz is usually a >1.8v proposition. Especially with a desktop Barton. I had a desktop chip that needed >2.0v to get there. It'll dump tons of heat at 1.80v and up. Gets to be rather pointless because it won't be much …
Re: Creative's way: how to make friends
Posted on 2008-04-11, 18:08
Yeah, as someone who also say PC sound go from nothing to what it is today (ie PC speaker -> Tandy 1000 -> SBPro -> Ensoniq Soundscape -> AudioPCI -> SBLive! -> Audigy 2) , I think the wannabe-audiophile PC users kinda miss the point. :) I want a card that does what I need, which happens to include …
Re: Voodoo2 vs. Voodoo3/5
Posted on 2008-04-11, 18:01
Yeah you need a mobile chip to have unlocked multipliers. Closing the L1 bridges on Palomino and later is extremely hard because of the change from that ceramic package to the "organic" one. You should be able to undervolt that thing quite a bit with the clock rate reduced that much. Probably can't …
Re: Computer Gaming World is DEAD. Long live "Games for Windows"
Posted on 2008-04-09, 18:54
I don't know what to say. It was time for it to go, I think. The mag hasn't really been "great" since pre-2001, IMO. The '90s were just an incredible time for them and the industry. Then funding, advertising, and readership fell apart from 2000 onward and the mag suffered badly in various ways. Jeff …
Re: Voodoo2 vs. Voodoo3/5
Posted on 2008-04-09, 18:46
I have a Athlon XP-M 2500+, a mobile Barton core, on a Shuttle AK31A. That has a KT266A chipset. I had to do a wiremod (put wires into) the socket to get the mulitplier up to a nice 16.5x (lol). BIOS sees it as a "Unknown CPU Type", as did my now-dead nForce2 board, but it works perfectly. It's …
Re: Voodoo2 vs. Voodoo3/5
Posted on 2008-04-06, 18:41
let's put it another way: If you want 100% Glide compatibility in every way, you have to use a Voodoo1. A Voodoo2 may be able to be coerced into playing the older games too, but it's not a guaranteed thing. Voodoo Banshee/3/4/5 have considerable advantages over Voodoo1/2/Rush. Unless you are sure …
Re: Voodoo2 vs. Voodoo3/5
Posted on 2008-04-05, 05:58
Yeah 3dfx never got a card out with HW T&L. Geometry "assist" is just a software-based equivalent that may or may not work, as you read. I've never even messed with it. Games of those days didn't need it at all. I wouldn't be surprised if "geometry assist" was added solely to get a few extra points …
Re: Voodoo2 vs. Voodoo3/5
Posted on 2008-04-04, 19:14
Voodoo3 and 5 will just look better because of the removal of the pass-thru cable. They are obviously going to be faster too. Voodoo5 adds 32-bit color depth too. Its anti-aliasing is quite good, but it does drag down performance quite a bit. Go look up reviews of it. They will have screenshots. A …
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