Recent content by 2dfx

Go into the sound mixer, and get the Sound Recording to use Line In instead of the other audio in sources such as the microphone.

here we go http://www.geocities.com/porotuner/imagequality.html

Yeah but the bottleneck is in the ram, not the core.

WIth Q3 1.27, the lightmaps and the sky have an option not to be compressed when DXTC is on, which fixes much of the problems and is noticably slower. I think the variable for this is: r_ext_compress_texutres 1 For the compression of all textures, which looks shocking, i think the variable...

Hmm, GF cards convert textures to 16bit with DXT1 on, and hardware reviewers leave DXT1 on on while reviewing cards with q3, even though it looks like crap. Could it be that nVidia was cheating with Q3 benchmarks and possibly others?

It will feel fast since he's upgrading from a P3 500. Ignorance is bliss. ;)

Aureal decided to make their own boards. S3 decided to make their own boards by aquiring diamond. 3dfx decided to make their own boards by aquiring STB. Common result: owned

I heard they stopped the compression of lightmaps, which was what caused the discolouration artifacts.

It looks like you installed the K7V bios. :P

IMO its not worth getting the heatsink off and overclocking the core since it doesn't improve performance much. The GF2 MX is memory bandwidth limited, and the best way to improve performance is to overclock the memory.

Instead of just running hl.exe run it by typing hl.exe -32bpp I've tried it a while before but doesn't seem to do much.

Does 32bit colour make much of a difference in cs or just eat some frame rates?

I also heard the 64mb ones are more overclockable since they use Hyundai DDR SDRAM which is more overclockable than the Infineon DDR SGRAM. But IMO its not worth the extra cost for the extra 32mb.

One of the Taisol ones I think.

Extra power consumption is not bad in itself. Same deal with heat, its not bad itself. Its the effects its causes which are bad. If the card doesn't lock up or screw up the system somehow because of it, well then I don't see anything that's wrong with it.