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Funny: 3dfx problems
I put a voodoo3 2000 pci into my work pc, replacing an older 4meg card.
My thought was it would give me a faster ramdac + more memory, and if I happened to play q3a on my dual pro...
Well, things ran really poorly. So I checked the q3config and i noticed: set r_smp "0".
I set the value to one, and q3 won't run. Now, I think the PPRo is nice, albeit old, chip. but one 200 PPro won't run q3. 2 might just be playable. But, 3dfx drivers have no SMP! So I checked out the message boards at 3dfxgamers.com, and guess what, the people over there are pissed! I thought the occasional flame here was bad. But there, people are ruthless.
First somebody trashes 3dfx for no smp, then the loyalists call him a baby. then all hell breaks loose. Amusing.
Though, I'm a little disappointed that there is no smp...
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Home System:
G400 DH 32MB, PD 5.30, bios 1.5-22, TGL 1.0
RR-G, VidTools 1.51
Win98SE, DX 4.07.00
Celeron 400@450 (taking it easy on the PCI Bus, Asus P3B-F 1.01A, Bios 1004
128MB Crucial PC133, CTX VL710, SBLive Value, liveware 3.0
Promise Ultra66 w/1xWD136BA + 1xWD205BA
Work System:
Dual PPro 200 w/256k cache, Intel Providence PR440FX w/onboard UW SCSI, bios # 1.00.08
128MB 60ns buffered asyncronous ECC DRAM
9.1GB IBM Ultrastar 18ES UW SCSI
Voodoo3 2000 PCI 16MB
Hitachi SuperScan Elite 17
WinNT 4.0 SP6
[This message has been edited by moreau (edited 24 February 2000).]
My thought was it would give me a faster ramdac + more memory, and if I happened to play q3a on my dual pro...
Well, things ran really poorly. So I checked the q3config and i noticed: set r_smp "0".
I set the value to one, and q3 won't run. Now, I think the PPRo is nice, albeit old, chip. but one 200 PPro won't run q3. 2 might just be playable. But, 3dfx drivers have no SMP! So I checked out the message boards at 3dfxgamers.com, and guess what, the people over there are pissed! I thought the occasional flame here was bad. But there, people are ruthless.
First somebody trashes 3dfx for no smp, then the loyalists call him a baby. then all hell breaks loose. Amusing.
Though, I'm a little disappointed that there is no smp...
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Home System:
G400 DH 32MB, PD 5.30, bios 1.5-22, TGL 1.0
RR-G, VidTools 1.51
Win98SE, DX 4.07.00
Celeron 400@450 (taking it easy on the PCI Bus, Asus P3B-F 1.01A, Bios 1004
128MB Crucial PC133, CTX VL710, SBLive Value, liveware 3.0
Promise Ultra66 w/1xWD136BA + 1xWD205BA
Work System:
Dual PPro 200 w/256k cache, Intel Providence PR440FX w/onboard UW SCSI, bios # 1.00.08
128MB 60ns buffered asyncronous ECC DRAM
9.1GB IBM Ultrastar 18ES UW SCSI
Voodoo3 2000 PCI 16MB
Hitachi SuperScan Elite 17
WinNT 4.0 SP6
[This message has been edited by moreau (edited 24 February 2000).]
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