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bfbaker@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
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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 though I was bad, mine does everything fast except for the dlib blits test
in wintune98, that is why it pulls like 30-40 mpixel/sec.  d3d and opengl
though...

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


it still ain't gonna help w/ windows explorer, no not even sli...
>
>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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