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Re: Help! Pathetic 2D performance with CL Riva TNT AGP

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From: Jeff Atwood
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
>
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From: "Jeff Atwood" <jatwood@nospammy.a.crl.com.nospammy>
Subject: Re: Help! Pathetic 2D performance with CL Riva TNT AGP
Date: 1998/10/24
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