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are you running NT4?

if you (and have  a PPro) are it is apparently possible to assign things to
IRQ's around the 40's

this was in an old (years) magazine I read ages ago where his nic was on irq
44....

just a thought

Matt Hope ICQ - 758900. St-Hughs college Oxford

rabid wrote in message <36631eb6.928169@news.ym1.on.wave.home.com>...
>planning on getting the fuzion myself.....
>currently have a viper 330 - iam assuming the fuzion is a fair bit
>faster than my viper?.......also, will be running it at 1280 on a 19"
>monitor.....hope the text is good ?
>cant get a voodoo 2 because i have no irq's left...hehe
>system is pentium pro 200, 128 ram and aging.......
>
>
>
>
>
>
>On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:45:09 -0700, "Bubba" <kc5mop@azstarnet.com>
>wrote:
>
>>check out the NG 3dfx.products.voodoobanshee. Most of the posts seem to be
>>about the Creative Labs Banshee defect, I mean product. People are having
>>loads of problems with them. Not a whole lot on the Diamond Fushion which
I
>>think says a lot about the product. IMO I get the Fushion which comes with
>>an CPU fan ( The CL doesn't ). My cards in the mail on it's way to me.
>>
>>Bubba
>>
>>
>>>>Hiya all..
>>>>    Been scouring the newsgroups and web over the past few days looking
>>for
>>>>info about voodoo2 banshee cards.... I am about to purchase the 16meg
>>creative
>>>>banshee card for my P200mmx system. Its purpose is partly to make quake2
>>>
>>
>

I just put one in my P166 Aptiva. Here's what works in 3D mode so far.

GLQuake and Quake 2 (special quake drivers on the CD that comes with the 
system)
Tomb Raider 2 and 3
Sim Copter with patch

That's it. Everything else has to run in non-3D mode or the system craps 
up. It can't do anything but 800x600 or 640x480 in 8 or 16bit color. Even 
my old crappy 2-meg non-3D ATI-Mach64 could do 1024x768. I wish I had 
spent the extra $50 and gotten a real Voodoo2. :<

Your milage may vary.


In article <366286E9.1C08350D@iinet.net.au>, scafidi@iinet.net.au says...
> Hiya all..
>     Been scouring the newsgroups and web over the past few days looking for
> info about voodoo2 banshee cards.... I am about to purchase the 16meg creative
>

A friend of mine recently bought the Banshee...it works great in my opinion
(and I have a monster 3d 2).  It's not quite as fast as my V2 but it looks
just as good, maybe better.  We've got Unreal and Half-Life and Quake2
working great with it.  Quake 2 is the only one that liked 800x600.  The
others had to be notched down.  He has 200MMX + 32MB  I'd say for $100 it
was a great addition to his system.  As far as their 2D capabilities...he's
running at 1024x768 with no problems.  All the colors are nice and crisp....
Seems like a great card for the money to me..

-Dustin

Ambrose Scafidi wrote in message <366286E9.1C08350D@iinet.net.au>...
>Hiya all..
>    Been scouring the newsgroups and web over the past few days looking for
>info about voodoo2 banshee cards.... I am about to purchase the 16meg
creative
>banshee card for my P200mmx system. Its purpose is partly to make quake2
>prettier but mostly to replace my ageing diamond stealth 2000 series gfx
card
>(its about 3 years old....).
>
>What i would like to read is some kind of feedback regarding peoples
>experience with banshee cards.... not to mention their performance on a
system
>such as mine. And what they are "really" like compared to a true Voodoo2
card.
>i have seen people say they are not as good on the grounds of interrupts
and
>frame rates... a lot of talk about their 3d capabilities.... but what about
>their 2d capabilities? compatibility?....
>
>your in zeros and ones,
>    Ambrose Scafidi
>
>

Ambrose Scafidi <scafidi@iinet.net.au> wrote in article
<366286E9.1C08350D@iinet.net.au>...
> Hiya all..
>     Been scouring the newsgroups and web over the past few days looking
for
> info about voodoo2 banshee cards.... I am about to purchase the 16meg
creative
> banshee card for my P200mmx system. Its purpose is partly to make quake2
> prettier but mostly to replace my ageing diamond stealth 2000 series gfx
card
> (its about 3 years old....).
> 
> What i would like to read is some kind of feedback regarding peoples
> experience with banshee cards.... not to mention their performance on a
system
> such as mine. And what they are "really" like compared to a true Voodoo2
card.
> i have seen people say they are not as good on the grounds of interrupts
and
> frame rates... a lot of talk about their 3d capabilities.... but what
about
> their 2d capabilities? compatibility?....
> 
> your in zeros and ones,
>     Ambrose Scafidi
> 
whoops dont know> 

I own the Banshee card and aside from a few driver problems with AOL 4.0 I
think it is a good card.  If you do play games like quake that use
multi-texturing you need the V2 for good performance, otherwise, the Banshee
is just as good if not better (more memory).  I run at 1024x768 and it does
look great.
Ambrose Scafidi wrote in message <366286E9.1C08350D@iinet.net.au>...
>Hiya all..
>    Been scouring the newsgroups and web over the past few days looking for
>info about voodoo2 banshee cards.... I am about to purchase the 16meg
creative
>banshee card for my P200mmx system. Its purpose is partly to make quake2
>prettier but mostly to replace my ageing diamond stealth 2000 series gfx
card
>(its about 3 years old....).
>
>What i would like to read is some kind of feedback regarding peoples
>experience with banshee cards.... not to mention their performance on a
system
>such as mine. And what they are "really" like compared to a true Voodoo2
card.
>i have seen people say they are not as good on the grounds of interrupts
and
>frame rates... a lot of talk about their 3d capabilities.... but what about
>their 2d capabilities? compatibility?....
>
>your in zeros and ones,
>    Ambrose Scafidi
>
>

planning on getting the fuzion myself.....
currently have a viper 330 - iam assuming the fuzion is a fair bit
faster than my viper?.......also, will be running it at 1280 on a 19"
monitor.....hope the text is good ?
cant get a voodoo 2 because i have no irq's left...hehe
system is pentium pro 200, 128 ram and aging.......






On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:45:09 -0700, "Bubba" <kc5mop@azstarnet.com>
wrote:

>check out the NG 3dfx.products.voodoobanshee. Most of the posts seem to be
>about the Creative Labs Banshee defect, I mean product. People are having
>loads of problems with them. Not a whole lot on the Diamond Fushion which I
>think says a lot about the product. IMO I get the Fushion which comes with
>an CPU fan ( The CL doesn't ). My cards in the mail on it's way to me.
>
>Bubba
>
>
>>>Hiya all..
>>>    Been scouring the newsgroups and web over the past few days looking
>for
>>>info about voodoo2 banshee cards.... I am about to purchase the 16meg
>creative
>>>banshee card for my P200mmx system. Its purpose is partly to make quake2
>>
>

When and if you get your card.
go here and do the Quake 2 autoexec.cfg maker,its really cool.
http://digitalsea.net/tweak3d/index.shtml
Doug Henry


Ambrose Scafidi wrote in message <366286E9.1C08350D@iinet.net.au>...
>Hiya all..
>    Been scouring the newsgroups and web over the past few days looking for
>info about voodoo2 banshee cards.... I am about to purchase the 16meg
creative
>banshee card for my P200mmx system. Its purpose is partly to make quake2
>prettier but mostly to replace my ageing diamond stealth 2000 series gfx
card
>(its about 3 years old....).
>
>What i would like to read is some kind of feedback regarding peoples
>experience with banshee cards.... not to mention their performance on a
system
>such as mine. And what they are "really" like compared to a true Voodoo2
card.
>i have seen people say they are not as good on the grounds of interrupts
and
>frame rates... a lot of talk about their 3d capabilities.... but what about
>their 2d capabilities? compatibility?....
>
>your in zeros and ones,
>    Ambrose Scafidi
>
>

check out the NG 3dfx.products.voodoobanshee. Most of the posts seem to be
about the Creative Labs Banshee defect, I mean product. People are having
loads of problems with them. Not a whole lot on the Diamond Fushion which I
think says a lot about the product. IMO I get the Fushion which comes with
an CPU fan ( The CL doesn't ). My cards in the mail on it's way to me.

Bubba


>>Hiya all..
>>    Been scouring the newsgroups and web over the past few days looking
for
>>info about voodoo2 banshee cards.... I am about to purchase the 16meg
creative
>>banshee card for my P200mmx system. Its purpose is partly to make quake2
>

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:52:09 +0800, Ambrose Scafidi
<scafidi@iinet.net.au> wrote:

sorry i don't have one :) i came close to getting one. but i did read
(from a pc mag)
quote from mag "..uncomprimising 2d and 3d performance..........
differs from voodoo 2 as it has 1 texture processor as opposed to 2
(for voodoo 2). so banshee will be slower for games like quake 2 and
unreal which use multitexturing. ..........banshee runs at higher
clock rate giving it faster fill rate means better performance for
non-multitexturing games. end quote.

they tested the phoenix pci card which was easy to install and had
comparible 3d image quality to most other voodoo2  cards.
ps u can download some banshee, voodoo2 drivers from 
www.guillemot.com (under tech support)
seeya


>Hiya all..
>    Been scouring the newsgroups and web over the past few days looking for
>info about voodoo2 banshee cards.... I am about to purchase the 16meg creative
>banshee card for my P200mmx system. Its purpose is partly to make quake2

Just out of curiosity what is evrything else?
I hav'nt ran into that problem.
Doug Henry

Harvey W. Harbicht (http://come.to/stupidlaratricks) wrote in message
<73ve3s$nno@newsops.execpc.com>...
>I just put one in my P166 Aptiva. Here's what works in 3D mode so far.
>
>GLQuake and Quake 2 (special quake drivers on the CD that comes with the
>system)
>Tomb Raider 2 and 3
>Sim Copter with patch
>
>That's it. Everything else has to run in non-3D mode or the system craps
>up. It can't do anything but 800x600 or 640x480 in 8 or 16bit color. Even
>my old crappy 2-meg non-3D ATI-Mach64 could do 1024x768. I wish I had
>spent the extra $50 and gotten a real Voodoo2. :<
>
>Your milage may vary.
>
>
>In article <366286E9.1C08350D@iinet.net.au>, scafidi@iinet.net.au says...
>> Hiya all..
>>     Been scouring the newsgroups and web over the past few days looking
for
>> info about voodoo2 banshee cards.... I am about to purchase the 16meg
creative
>>

I have a K6-233 system and I was wondering what the banshee people
with Socket 7 CPUs are getting for frame rates in 640x480 and maybe
800x600.... Thanks...

JOhn