GeForce FSAA question

I have a Geforce 256 (32meg) and a Voodoo2 card on my Dell p3 600 with 256 ram and sblive. I upgraded to the new Detonator 3 drivers tonight and for the first time I tried FSAA by going to the display/settings/advanced/geforce and moving the dial from none to 4 x 4 (figureing to see nice graphics but a strong FPS hit) Nothing changed in N4 or GPL. Changed to 2 x 2, still nothing. Went back to the original (no FSAA) settings and still no difference. V-sync is off in OpenGL (I dont have an option for it in the Geforce settings) and N4 has always run better in D3D, which seems to go against the grain in the newsgroups. With sliders down to 25 to 50 percent I get around 40 fps offline from the back of the pack at Dega, so no real problems with FPS but I would like to know why FSAA isnt working in D3D on the GeForce card. Is there a problem running the Voodoo2 card with it? Also, what is all the hulabaloo about the new D-3 drivers? Didn't gain one single FPS in N4. Any help would be appreciated TIA Mike

"Race1530" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I have a Geforce 256 (32meg) and a Voodoo2 card on my Dell p3 600 with 256ram > and sblive. I upgraded to the new Detonator 3 drivers tonight and for the > first time I tried FSAA by going to the display/settings/advanced/geforceand > moving the dial from none to 4 x 4 (figureing to see nice graphics but astrong > FPS hit) Nothing changed in N4 or GPL. This isn't an Elsa card by any chance? I upgraded to an Elsa Gladiac GeForce 2 Ultra 64Mb from a Voodoo3 2000 yesterday and had a similar problem. Initially the FSAA worked, theen I rebooted and it stopped working. It turned out that I had enabled the 3D Stereo option for the 3D Revelator glasses which came with the card. This option cannot be used with FSAA on so the FSAA option was automatically disabled. If you have an Elsa card switch 3D Stereo off. Cheers Phil -- F1 GPL Handicap: -0.01 secs F2 GPL Handicap: +115.79 secs

You also have to check the little box for forcing FSAA in all apps. "Race1530" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I have a Geforce 256 (32meg) and a Voodoo2 card on my Dell p3 600 with 256ram > and sblive. I upgraded to the new Detonator 3 drivers tonight and for the > first time I tried FSAA by going to the display/settings/advanced/geforceand > moving the dial from none to 4 x 4 (figureing to see nice graphics but astrong > FPS hit) Nothing changed in N4 or GPL. Changed to 2 x 2, stillnothing. > Went back to the original (no FSAA) settings and still no difference. > V-sync is off in OpenGL (I dont have an option for it in the Geforcesettings) > and N4 has always run better in D3D, which seems to go against the grainin the > newsgroups. With sliders down to 25 to 50 percent I get around 40 fpsoffline > from the back of the pack at Dega, so no real problems with FPS but Iwould > like to know why FSAA isnt working in D3D on the GeForce card. Is there a > problem running the Voodoo2 card with it? Also, what is all the hulabaloo > about the new D-3 drivers? Didn't gain one single FPS in N4. > Any help would be appreciated > TIA > Mike

I dont know if its an "elsa" card. It came with the Dell System when I bought it a year ago. Just says NVidia GeForce 256. And yes, I do have the "Force All Apps" checked. Anything else I can try? Thanks Mike

On 15 Feb 2001 06:35:49 GMT, [email hidden] (Race1530) wrote:

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>I have a Geforce 256 (32meg) and a Voodoo2 card on my Dell p3 600 with 256 ram >and sblive. I upgraded to the new Detonator 3 drivers tonight and for the >first time I tried FSAA by going to the display/settings/advanced/geforce and >moving the dial from none to 4 x 4 (figureing to see nice graphics but a strong >FPS hit) Nothing changed in N4 or GPL. Changed to 2 x 2, still nothing. >Went back to the original (no FSAA) settings and still no difference. >V-sync is off in OpenGL (I dont have an option for it in the Geforce settings) >and N4 has always run better in D3D, which seems to go against the grain in the >newsgroups. With sliders down to 25 to 50 percent I get around 40 fps offline >from the back of the pack at Dega, so no real problems with FPS but I would >like to know why FSAA isnt working in D3D on the GeForce card. Is there a >problem running the Voodoo2 card with it? Also, what is all the hulabaloo >about the new D-3 drivers? Didn't gain one single FPS in N4. >Any help would be appreciated >TIA >Mike

You'll have to reboot after changing FSAA settings... /petern