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Posted by TalonHunter on 10-09-2001 01:05 AM:

Geforce 3 and FreeSpace 2

I'm dying to get my hands on this mod!!!
It looks sweet!!!

Anyway.... Is anyone having trouble with FreeSpace 2 using a Geforce 3 card?
The text on any screen doesn't look right. I get weird artifacts..
Also, the sound gets a bit choppy..

I am running Windows ME on a P3-1ghz, 512RAM,
Geforce3, and Sound Bastard Live X-Gamer.

Yes, I beleive that I have the latest drivers for everything and DirectX 8.0a.

Any Ideas??

Posted by IceFire on 10-09-2001 01:09 AM:

Hrmm...not really...except that the Drivers might be the problem and that they will get better as time goes on.

Thats always the case. GeForce 2 drivers are starting to get pretty good now but they weren't nearly as good before. Its part of the evolutionary process.

Heck....by the time GeForce 4 or whatever it is comes out (I'm not talking about TI either) some games might take advantage of GeForce 3 and its drivers will be ready.

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Posted by JC Denton on 10-09-2001 02:35 AM:

and maybe by then Geforce 3s will be a bit more affordable

Posted by Darkblade on 10-09-2001 05:20 AM:

GeForce 3, eh?

Hmmm... try installing 20.80 drivers which you can get at http://www.m3dzone.com and then try playing the game.

If it doesn't help then go to http://www.geforcefaq.com which contains troubleshooting for every kind of errors with GeForce cards. I'd suggest to try these...

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Posted by CptWhite on 10-09-2001 05:43 AM:

choppy writting eh. sounds like AA is on if you ask me. go to display properties to turn off

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Posted by IPAndrews on 10-09-2001 11:52 AM:

Most of the cost of the GF3 is playing for that bloody ginormous cooling fan. Break out the marshmellows guys.

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Posted by FSF Ashrak on 10-09-2001 12:05 PM:

SB and NVIDIA

well you see i got TNT 2 and SB live and my sound is allso choppy its because of a conflict between OS NVIDIA and SB change the soundcard to another firm and itll be a ok

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Posted by Black Sheep 2000 on 10-09-2001 07:31 PM:

Check if you have the anti aliasing activated!

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Posted by Fuzzy Modem on 10-10-2001 07:07 AM:

Any other Geforce 3 complaints? I'm trying to decide between it and the new Radion.

Posted by Mr. Fury on 10-10-2001 02:22 PM:

Buy Radeon 8500.
More features and it's faster.

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Posted by FSF Ashrak on 10-10-2001 02:27 PM:

faster than GF3 dont think so my friend

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Posted by MCO Strife on 10-10-2001 04:39 PM:

I feel left out, I only have a Voodoo Banshee still it does the trick for now, when it is necessary to buy a new 3D card I will, first things first I want a mic and a few pints, I'm glad there is a pub near me that does pints for Â£1, that's right Â£1

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Posted by Mr. Fury on 10-10-2001 04:46 PM:

It IS faster.

Posted by Troll on 10-10-2001 05:14 PM:

TalonHunter, as CptWhite and Black Sheep said, it is the anti-aliasing. I had the same issue when I had the anti-aliasing set on Quincunx, but when I switched to "allow applications to choose" it went away and works perfectly. Although, I also have a SB Live X-Gamer and I never had any problem with the sound, before or after switching the AA, so I don't know what to tell ya there.

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Posted by Alphakiller on 10-10-2001 07:40 PM:

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Originally posted by Mr. Fury
It IS faster.

Faster in what? 32-bit? 16-bit? Low-res? High-res? You can't just make a blanket statement like that - especially with ATI's mislabelling going on - buy a retail card and you get core memory 30MHz faster than OEM (for some models, anyway). That's some serious bs right there

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Posted by Mr. Fury on 10-10-2001 07:53 PM:

In overall performance.

Edit: Well early tests and comparisons have shown that when released Radeon 8500 can kick GF3's arse in most games.

Posted by Fuzzy Modem on 10-10-2001 07:55 PM:

I know that the new radion does %200 better in particle effects than the geforce3. As i work alot in Maya and use paricle instancing this is a big plus.

Posted by Alphakiller on 10-11-2001 12:53 AM:

http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q3/010814/images/image020.gif

Yeah, a lot faster than a GF3. Oh wait, did the GF3 beat it in 1600x1200x32? Why yes it did! And this is before the official (21.81) Det4s came out, so add some points because of those. 20.80s aren't as fast as 21.81s, I have some numbers on that if you care.
(To be fair, ATI's drivers for the Radeon 8500 have also improved, so I imagine these benchmarks would be very similar today, maybe higher numbers, but proportionally the same.)

Sorry...can't say it's "A lot faster" when facts don't support it.
I have nothing against ATI - nor nVidia - but I dislike blatant fanboyism. I prefer nVidia because of driver support and 3D gaming, nothing more. Now, with the Radeon 8500 coming out, I'm re-evaluating, since it does look really cool. But I won't be getting a new 3D card until the GeForce 5, or something like that. ... so whatever. Truform is a neat idea, have you seen some of those comparison shots? Not bad.

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Posted by Turnsky on 10-11-2001 01:24 AM:

Since when the hell FS2 could support 1600x1200x32?!

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Posted by Londo Molari on 10-11-2001 01:43 AM:

someon asked what they mean by faster/better

Radeon 8500 has a faster clockspeed 250 and 275mhz I think (Geforce3 is 233mhz), and its also compliant with ALL DirectX8.1 components (geforce 3 is not), tho those will probably not be implemented in the life of these cards...

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