🚀 go-pugleaf

Nvidia didn't write the driver for nt4, which is a basic rather shitty
icd..  read some reviews from Zanshin's Glquake dojo or
Brian Hook's .plan about the Riva and glquake using specific
drivers for the card..

Chris


Maurice Van Emburgh (mve@texas.net) wrote:
: Yesterday I received an Asus V3000 Explorer, which is a Riva128 AGP
: card.
: It doesn't have video out, but otherwise should be the same as the STB
: and
: Diamond cards. The memory is 10ns SGRAM.
: 
: I'm running Windows NT 4 (sp3 of course), Pentium II 274mhz (68mhzx4).
: Asus
: P2L97 w/ 96MB 10ns SDRAM.
: 
: The drivers dated 8/4/97 included on the CD are horribly slow. I'm using
: the 
: STB NT4 drivers dated 10/1/97 and they're very fast. DO NOT install the
: Diamond 
: NT4 drivers using their install utility- the OS wouldn't load- incl. VGA
: Mode. I imagine
: it'd be safe if you can replace the .sys/.dlls within Display Properties
: however.
: 
: I can't speak to Windows95 at this point (will moneky with that over the
: weekend), but
: the bottom line regarding GlQuake/GlQuakeWorld is, don't buy this card
: to replace a 3dfx
: Voodoo card, nor even to expect to be happy with Glquake alone in as a
: stand alone card.
: 
: While fps is slightly higher than my Orhid R3d (which I run at only
: 50mhz), texture thrashing/
: pausing, cracking of textures, and generally image quality is rather
: poor under the current set
: of drivers. R3d Glquake under NT performs the same as under Win95, so my
: comparison is made with
: 'all other things being equal.'
: 
: This card may yet have a lot of potential to be a top-notch
: Glquake/Glquake2 etc card, as the 
: improvement in the 2d drivers with 2 month's effort was quite
: remarkable. However, I don't see
: it ever being a 'Voodoo' killer.
: 
: Note also: it's very clear that AGP support is very minimal at the OS
: level, don't go out of your
: way to upgrade to AGP and get a new video card if gaming is your central
: motivation. AGP will shine
: when Win98/NT5 are out. Then the 'Banshee'-AGP will probably blow
: everything away on a system such as 
: I have.
: 
: With all this said, I needed a better 2d card to replace my old S3- no
: need to leave the AGP slot
: emtpy, and for $154, the card is good deal. 2D performance and image
: quality (including at 1600x1200-75hz
: on my 21" monitor), is excellent.
: 
: Well, hope this helps some people.
: 
: -mve