rec.autos.simulators

by **Chris Bloo** » Thu, 04 May 2000 04:00:00

Well I'm glad I bought a Voodoo 2. My primary card is a Savage
4 32 mb at the moment which handles the D3D stuff pretty well.

Seeing as everything seems to be going the D3D route nowadays, I
can just upgrade my primary graphics card and keep the V2 in
there for GPL.

With the inevitable other upgrades GPL will only get faster and
smoother, I just won't have the goodies that come with the V5.

As always though it is hard to tell which direction graphics
cards (or anything else related to computers) will go next.
I've heard about a new PC architecture, will we still be able to
play our present sims/games with these pc's? Does anyone know
of any informative web sites that have information about this?

Chris

>> I have no***pit problems with GPL on my GeForce with Win
2000...

>But for how long? That's the only thing that bothers me with
the NVidia
>cards (and only with GPL). They may offer an acceptable
solution for GPL,
>but that could change rather quickly due to the beta status of
the GPL patch
>and evolving driver updates. What most concerns me is DX8. If
NVidia ships
>new drivers that are required for new games and you need older
drivers to
>play GPL.... well, it can get a bit messy.

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by **Alex Kihuran** » Fri, 05 May 2000 04:00:00

Hmm...Ive only had 3 problems with many sims with my GeForce. DTR didn't
have a mouse pointer, but that is now fixed, Midtown Madness had flashy
graphics, but the patch fixed it, and with NFS:PU I just needed the new
drivers. No problems other than that.

Thanks,
Alex

> Looking at the 5500 pictures on the url that gep supplied, I'm a bit
> disappointed at the banding in the sky, something I've noticed on other
> sites as well. Still, this seems like the best choice of the new cards.
If
> it performs near to the new geForce, I'll go for it. When I got rid of my
> last nVidia card it was to get rid of hassles and updated drivers every
> other day. Yea, eventually I got the games to perform well on the nVidia
> cards, but every time I loaded a new game, I kept my fingers crossed that
it
> would run on the card, and after about a month of fiddling it usually did.
> Another thing to keep in mind is that nVidia drivers get slower as they
are
> updated, while in the rest of the industry new drivers mean faster
> performance. I guess I've turned into a "plug 'n go" type of guy ;-)

> --
> Slot

> Tweaks & Reviews
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> > I currently own a Voodoo3 3000 (overclocked to 183 mhz) and like every
> time
> > the new graphic cars come around I have that eager to buy one. But this
> time
> > I think it's quite hard.
> > IMHO nVidia's product is superior to 3DFX's, but I'm not sure whether it
> is
> > superior in the games I will use it with. First of all I play quite some
> > Glide games (especially GPL ofcourse and also Falcon 4.0(and in the
future
> > GP3 ), the other games I play now and then are mainly D3D. And as far as
> > I've understood the Voodoo5 is better at D3D than the Geforce, is that
> true?
> > I don't think much of FSAA, it sure looks good but the frame rate hit is
> > just far too big and T&L isn't implemented in those games I play (or
will
> > play within half a year). So why would I upgrade at all you might think,
> > well I can use the extra fill rate quite good especially for the games I
> > mentioned earlier.
> > Is there anyone who can make things more clear for me, or who's facing
the
> > same dilemma?

rec.autos.simulators

Geforce 2 GTS or Voodoo5?

Geforce 2 GTS or Voodoo5?

Geforce 2 GTS or Voodoo5?