If you're in the market for a new video card, you'd be hard pressed to
beat the TNT from NVidia (OEM cards can be had for as little as $115),
though currently for GPL both Rendition and 3Dfx have their advantages.
- Eric
If you're in the market for a new video card, you'd be hard pressed to
beat the TNT from NVidia (OEM cards can be had for as little as $115),
though currently for GPL both Rendition and 3Dfx have their advantages.
- Eric
- Eric
Adventure.....didn't
PII 266, 64meg ram, Viper V330 (Nvida 128 4meg pci) 2d/3d graphics card.
I downloaded the OpenGL Beta2 drivers and am also running DX6
I've found that in training mode with ALL graphics turned on 640x480 I only
get about 10-12 fps, with most of the graphics turned down, I can get a fps
of about 16-18, but can't seem to crack 20fps.
I would suspect, that as twitchy as these cars are, you'd need a minimum of
25-30 fps to control the car effectively, and be able to be racey/driveable.
When I upgraded from a P133 to the PII 266 games like N2, ICRII, GP2 and
NFS2 became SOOOO playable that it was like night and day, I was able to
enable full graphics and get max framerates that the games can deliver!
I'm also considering a VoodooII upgrade but am wondering how much more it
will do for me... Or.... Would a faster system or overclocked system do more
than a bigger/better video card ???
If you do upgrade... Please do me a favor.... And post the differences
you've experienced by adding the Voodoo piggyback card to your existing
Veloicty 128 ?!
I'll do the same if/when I upgrade.
Thank you!
Jay J
- Eric
I also set the MipFiltering to 2 and the MirrorsEvery at 8.
It's helped, but.....
A strange thing that I've noticed.... When I goto graphics the accelerator
option, it's set to 'none' rather than OpenGL....
I change it to OpenGL, exit and restart but it's still on 'None'!
The 'APP.INI' file shows the lastRasterizerDLL set to rastOGL.dll, so I
assume i'm running OpenGL, but am I really ????
From what I've heard, and from my experience with the demo, prior to the
OpenGL patch, software mode is virtually unplayable, even on P II 450's,
with 128meg of RAM! So.... I assume i'm running OpenGL, and that the games
settings are just not showing it.
The problem is.... The 3d graphic options of: anti-aliasing, dynamic
lighting and specular highlights are greyed out, so I'm not too sure...
Anyone else encounter this problem?
Thank you in advance for the help!
Jay J
>I change it to OpenGL, exit and restart but it's still on 'None'!
>The 'APP.INI' file shows the lastRasterizerDLL set to rastOGL.dll, so I
>assume i'm running OpenGL, but am I really ????
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>- Eric
>>I've got a very similar setup to yours.
>>PII 266, 64meg ram, Viper V330 (Nvida 128 4meg pci) 2d/3d graphics
>card.
>>I downloaded the OpenGL Beta2 drivers and am also running DX6...
- Eric