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Article #1054Followup: Help! Pathetic 2D performance with CL Riva TNT AGP
From: bfbaker
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:00
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 > > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own > -----------== 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: bfbaker@my-dejanews.com Subject: Followup: Help! Pathetic 2D performance with CL Riva TNT AGP Date: 1998/10/25 Message-ID: <70vs0v$s1v$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 404917642 References: <70sq3o$96b$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x1.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 24.239.13.204 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Oct 25 18:52:16 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,creative.products.graphics_blaster.riva_tnt X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (Win95; I)