🚀 go-pugleaf

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What store did you buy it in? On their web site they say you can only order it
directly from them... Sounds like you got some kind of faked hack or
something...

> Shane Lai wrote in message <349c50fc.4450954@news.interlog.com>...
> > I purchased a Canopus Pure3d yesterday as an upgrade from my
> >Diamond Monster 3d since I play a lot of Quake2 online and I was
> >getting pretty severe slowdowns with the Monster when there were a
> >bunch of people in the same room.
> > Anyway, I installed it using the latest drivers released
> >yesterday, and since I could take it up to 60mhz in the settings
> >panel, I did - started up quake2 and....system locks up, reboot, take
> >it down to 59, and still lockup, I had to take it all the way down to
> >54 so it wouldn't keep crashing. BTW, I have a fan blowing across the
> >chips to keep them cool. I took it back to the store since I thought
> >it may be defective (there was a little sticker on the card saying
> >"fan failure") and just popped in a new one today with the very same
> >results.
> > The bottomline is, my older Monster3d has been running at
> >62mhz for the last 6 months without any problem whatsoever - no
> >texture tearing, no lock-ups, just a really high framerate...and now I
> >find that my "upgrade" to the Canopus Pure3d is really a downgrade.
> >Suffice to say, I'm *very very* dissapointed with the Pure3d.
> > Perhaps, in their effort to keep up with the Christmas rush,
> >they've loosened their quality control measures...