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Aureal Vortex 2

discussed in 25 posts, 1999-2003 · overall tone mixed

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SB Live Value or Diamond MX300 for GPL? 1999-05-28 · 31 posts
Greger Huttu asked which sound card would best speed up GPL over his SB16. Owners said the SB Live Value is functionally the same as the full Live for games, and Eric Busch explained that upcoming Papyrus titles would support A3D 2.0 and DirectSound3D, while GPL 1.1 would not add A3D. Mark Dod favoured the MX300 for A3D, and a Rendition fan's posts drew mockery.
NASCAR Racing 2002 random lockups 2002-07-02 · 21 posts
Alex Kihurani reported frequent lockups in NASCAR Racing 2002 with a GeForce 256. Suggestions included different Nvidia drivers, VIA chipset drivers, lowering the AGP aperture and removing Daemon Tools. He found older official drivers made the game work.
Surround sound and spotters in the cockpit view debate 2002-02-27 · 26 posts
Tom Pabst suggested that good 3D surround sound and the spotter compensate for the cockpit view's limited vision. Others said NR2002's positional sound was worse than NASCAR 4's or broke on some sound cards, and recalled DTR's excellent 3D sound. Real helmet restrictions on peripheral vision were also debated.
Maximum CPU speed for GPL and OS choice 2001-11-14 · 28 posts
Alison Hine asked for a friend what CPU speed GPL can run without the speed patch and which OS to choose. Replies said unpatched GPL starts having problems at roughly 1.2–1.4 GHz on Athlons and higher on P4s, that the speed patch causes no problems with other utilities, and that Windows 98SE remained safest. Several shared stable motherboard and hardware setups.