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UNBELIEVABLE!! GeForce3 Ti200 w/ Q3 at 2048x1536

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scrubman

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OH MY GOSH!!! i cant believe my eyes!! first i was amazed at the speed that i was able play Quake3 at and then i turned up all the setting to max and WOW!! it looks soooo cool!!! but this is the real kicker... i just happened to take a look at the Samsung support website looking to see if they had anything to improve the quality of my monitor (900ift) and low and behold, there was a new driver available!!! this driver not only made everything clearer and easier to read but upped my maximum resolution 4 notches!!! so naturally the first thing i did was cranked that baby up to the new max, 2048x1536 and checked out Quake3 Arena! well, it is simply unbelievable! its like a whole new game!!! i just cant even put it in words how spectacular it looks... here is one of the many screen captures i took... it is untouched, just changed to .jpg format... it looks nice but still nothing compared to when it is actually viewed at 2048x1536! NVidia RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quake3 Arena at 2048x1536 everything maxed!

warning: the image is 850k


****UPDATE****

Even though i was so impressed with how good Q3 looked i have to admit, even though i dont think its quite as impressive graphically, i am playing Serious Sam 2 a lot more these days! it still blows me away what a difference a vid card upgrade can make! my P3 @1 Ghz is gonna last me a little longer now!!!

here is a screen shot from SS2 at 2048x1536 everything maxed... again, the detail on the gun is much more impressive when viewed at the resolution of the picture!
 
uhhh, its more like foaming at the mouth! im just psyched that i extended the life of my Pentium3 for a little while longer for only a $100 upgrade, with helpfrom this forum! 🙂
 
To be quite honest, it doesn't look all that great to me. Aliasing galore on that gun, etc. Plus the character is still very blocky - evidence that the software is too old.

Anyways, to echo some of the others here, with a Geforce 3 for Quake III I'd probably run a much lower resolution and turn on AA and anisotropy. But I'd still wanna maintain an average frame rate of 85+ or so.
 


<< To be quite honest, it doesn't look all that great to me. Aliasing galore on that gun, etc. Plus the character is still very blocky - evidence that the software is too old. >>



Q3 is three years old folks. What is that like triassic in the computer era? 😉

Yes the poly count is waaaaaay low in this dinosaur. I also agree that FSAA just blurs the details. StarWars Starfighter looks damn fine at 1280x1024 with everything maxed out on my Ti4600 though. 🙂

What kind of FPS do you get with a timedemo at that res? I remember getting my first GF2 nearly two years ago and running that res and getting almost 30 fps which was damn fine at the time. 🙂

Cheers!
 


<< i just happened to take a look at the Samsung support website looking to see if they had anything to improve the quality of my monitor (900ift) and low and behold, there was a new driver available!!! this driver not only made everything clearer and easier to read but upped my maximum resolution 4 notches!!! >>



A new driver that does that? that sounds incredible! 😀 throw down the URL for us! (I have a 900IFT too)
 
my refresh rate is only 60hz at that resolution...

i got 52 fps at that res...

those jaggies you see are almost invisible to the eye at 2048x1536, anything less than that just magnifies it...

and for those of you with Samsung displays here is a link to the newest drivers... i was really shocked to see that just an updated driver could increase my maximum resolution! went from 1600x1200@72hz to 2048x1536@60Hz!

and thanks ATers for all your replies!! 😀
 
the new driver is really nothing more than a new inf file that updates the res in the registry. it can be done manually as i have done in the past...
 
I doubt it makes a difference whether its win2k or winxp. As i mentioned above, its just an INF file that updates the registry. The OS shouldnt have anything to do with the capability of the monitor to do 2048. Id be willing to bet that you can grab the XP inf file and use it. If not, just grab your current win2k inf off the machine and hack it with the xp inf from samsung site...
 


<< I doubt it makes a difference whether its win2k or winxp. As i mentioned above, its just an INF file that updates the registry. The OS shouldnt have anything to do with the capability of the monitor to do 2048. Id be willing to bet that you can grab the XP inf file and use it. If not, just grab your current win2k inf off the machine and hack it with the xp inf from samsung site... >>


OK then. How do I add 1400x1050x75 to my Rage 128 in NT 4? Powerstrip doesn't seem to work. Right now I'm using 1600x1200x75 for my Samsung 950p, but that's pushing it.
 


<< OK then. How do I add 1400x1050x75 to my Rage 128 in NT 4? >>



I used to edit my display (nvidia detonator inf) roles to support this resolution at 120 Hz for my Iiyama VMP510 and it worked great. I don't know about ATi's drivers though.

Cheers!
 


<< I doubt it makes a difference whether its win2k or winxp. >>



There was no XP driver either... it's only 9x.

if it makes for clearer text and better picture.. it irks me.. but if it were a lesser issue or no known improvements i wouldnt care.. but i want to see clearer text !!!
 
Yield-------------------> dont get your hopes up too high because the improvement on text clarity is marginal at best... this big thing was the higher resolutions...

 
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