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

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From: bfbaker
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:00
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Greetings,

Thanks to all who have responded so far.  Here's some further info on
the situation:

The bogus graphics in Forsaken were caused by a bad saved game file. (Oops!)

I have installed the USB patch, and switched to the Nvidia reference drivers,
and the 2D performance did not improve.

2D performance gets even worse in 32-bit color (as one might expect).  When
using the treeview in Windows Explorer, expanding a directory with 22
subdirectories takes ~2.5 seconds to finish drawing.

I'm running out of ideas here.  Perhaps the good folks at NECX will trade me
for a shiny new VooDoo II card...  :-(>

Later,
Brian Baker.

Previous post:
> 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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Subject: Followup: Help! Pathetic 2D performance with CL Riva TNT AGP
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