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Article #1052Re: Help! Pathetic 2D performance with CL Riva TNT AGP
From: Jeff Atwood
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 00:00
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Wow, something is definitely wrong. Have you tried the nvidia reference drivers from www.nvidia.com ? Also, make sure your card has an interrupt assigned to it in device manager and the BIOS. Jeff bfbaker@my-dejanews.com wrote in message <70sq3o$96b$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>... >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) > >BIOS: >AGP aperature size: 256MB >Palette snoop: Disabled > >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1039e9,a04d3663235432ff X-Google-Attributes: gid1039e9,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,a04d3663235432ff X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: 108f8e,a04d3663235432ff X-Google-Attributes: gid108f8e,public From: "Jeff Atwood" <jatwood@nospammy.a.crl.com.nospammy> Subject: Re: Help! Pathetic 2D performance with CL Riva TNT AGP Date: 1998/10/24 Message-ID: <36327508.0@news.mti.net> X-Deja-AN: 404738644 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.214.112.4 References: <70sq3o$96b$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Trace: 24 Oct 1998 20:53:09 -0500, 208.214.112.4 Organization: MTI Internet Services Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,creative.products.graphics_blaster.riva_tnt