rec.autos.simulators

Well.. my system just doesn't like the Intergraph Reactor 3d board,
but what about the Screamer 3d.. Mistique or Creative Laps 3d blaster
(PCI) board??  Any comments are greatly appreciated!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

What kind of system do you have a DELL P-150???

Don

Leigh

It is faster mainly because of the optimized drivers.  The hardware
differences should have a minimal effect (faster RAMDAC and 5 or 10ns
faster RAM).  I've been out of town for the past week, so care to tell
me how your running N2 with anti-aliasing?  I checked with Intergraph,
Rendition, and Sierra and could not find a patch.

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Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative
Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

Verite 1000 chip still?
Better bios?
Better Drivers?
Faster clock?
Mystery?

Hey Charlie, have you tried removing EVERY other board from your
computer?  I had a time getting my REACTOR to work in my machine.  It
turned out that I had another board using the same IRQ that the
REACTOR board was using from the factory.  The reactor board does not
come with any DOS utility to view or set the board settings.  It
TOTALLY delends on Windows'95 to make these changes.

It worries me.  Do any of the other Verite 1000 based boards come with
a utility that can be used to view or set the on board plug and play
settings?

In my case, once I knew that my Aztech brand sound board was
preventing my Intergraph Reactor from operating, I simply changed the
IRQ settings on the Aztech board.  This allowed the machine to boot so
that Windows'95 could do it's thing.
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Best Wishes!!!
Robert Huggins
Raleigh, NC

It has a faster RAMDAC and slightly faster EDO RAM (about 5ns faster
than the Reactor's RAM).  These really are not too significant, as it
is the optimized drivers that account for most of the speed increase.

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Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative
Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

The Reactor has a 135mhz RAMDAC, and the Canopus no longer has their
speed posted on their specs page (I seem to remember it was like 170mhz
or something).  The Total3D uses 40ns RAM, while the Reactor has 45ns
or 50ns RAM (I'm not sure which).  

I haven't heard of renedit, are you talking about renutil?

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Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative
Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

   But, Eric, this guy (Leigh Anderson) is claiming a 31% speed
increase in VQuake, ie: *Verite 3D mode*.  That's based on the
hardware and the BIOS, not the Windows drivers.  I'm skeptical, but
he's insistent.  ;)

   Of course, he also says NASCAR2 has anti-aliasing...

Pick one or more: Model Rockets (competition-NERCB) / PCs (even Atari!) /
Papyrus ICR-ICR2-NCR / Who needs a life when you have multiple non-lives?

He also said it was faster than the Sierra card, but not nearly as
large a difference as the Reactor.  In non-Win95 related stuff (DOS
games) the Reactor and Sierra card are identical in performance (give
or take a fps).

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Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative
Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/