🚀 go-pugleaf

bfbaker@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I've just replaced my Millennium II PCI / Voodoo I combo with the Creative
> Labs Riva TNT AGP card, and I don't feel like I've traded up.  While it's
> nice to see my favorite games in higher resolutions, most of them show some
> bizzare behavior.  In Forsaken, some of the graphics are misplaced (tanks
> appearing as covered turrets, covered turrets appearing as subway cars, etc).
> In G-Police, the game plays well, but the letters in the menus are
> surrounded by a chunky black border.
> 
> The real show-stopper is the pathetic 2D performance.  Subspace is unplayable.
> If there's any action on the sceen, framerates drop to 2-4 fps.  In the
> Windows Explorer (tm), I can see the directories slowly appear and disappear
> when I expand and collapse the treeview (on the other hand, dragging windows
> around is as fast as ever).
> 
> I've heard enough people rave about both the 3D and 2D performance of this
> card that I must believe that you're not all nuts.  There must be something
> wrong in my setup.  The boring details appear below.
> 
> If anyone has seen similar symptoms, or has any suggestions,
> please let me know.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Brian Baker.
> bfbaker _at sign goes here_ netcom.com
> 
> Hardware:
> Supermicro P6DLF motherboard
> Dual 300Mhz PIIs
> 256MB SDRAM
> DPT 2144UW SCSI PCI card
> Cogent EM960 ethernet PCI card
> 
> Software:
> Windows 95 4.00.950 B
> Latest CL TNT drivers (no tweeks)
> 
Unless you are planning to upgrade to NT, Linux, or another OS that 
supports multi-processing I recommend that you  sell that extra 
P-II 300, it's sitting there unused. (Unless you plan to keep it as
a backup in case the first one fails.)

> BIOS:
> AGP aperature size: 256MB
> Palette snoop: Disabled
> 
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