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**dnickle** · 5 October 1999, 00:19

Use MGAtweak, it works great, and shows all those settings. Cheers!

**Maggi** · 5 October 1999, 00:59

Welcome aboard son !

Where's father Joel with the holy water ???

LOL

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Make sure not to use a colordepth of 24bpp !!!

That's the only colordepth that is not hardware accelerated. Use 32bpp for true color and 16bpp for high color instead.

For a clock readout, you could either use PowerStrip or GX Performance Tuner, both are available from www.entechtaiwan.com ...

Btw, excellent note about the whiners !!!
Two thumbs up !!!

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Cheerio,
Maggi
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Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
2x P3-450 @ 464MHz
512MB CAS2 SDRAM
Millenium G400 32MB DH

**deejay** · 5 October 1999, 03:00

Congrats on your purchase,
I would be very interested how the G400 handles the popular games on your system (assuming you play games) like quakeII ,Half life, shock system II etc. I too have a PII 350 and 128 Mgs of ram and am about to (if I can find one) purchase a G400 32mb. I have seen it mentioned on these forums that the P350 may be a little underpowered for this card, I'd be interested in your thoughts.
Thanks.

Dave.

**The Rock** · 5 October 1999, 13:29

Thanks for all the replies guys (and gals if that applies ).

Deejay: I do play games, but not too many of the 3d variety, although I'm getting System Shock 2 sometime soon. The only 3d game I looked at recently was the Unreal Tournament demo, which looks great and plays incredibly well at 1024x768x32bit with all details on high, but I haven't played much of it and haven't really messed with UT's settings enough to give an accurate picture. But in limited play for me it flew and looks amazing, and I'm not using a MAX either. When I get my games collection back, I'll put it thru its paces and post some impressions here.

Gurm: that link you posted for G400Tweak seems dead. Thanks for the reply though. I'll do some searching for it. Those jaggies MUST go.

Maggi: Nice system; did you take out a 20 year mortgage on that?

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The Rock
"Discourage incest - ban country music NOW!"

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**Gurm** · 5 October 1999, 16:38

1) In some demos (like the G400 tech demo), I get jagged edges from hell; HOW can I mess with anti-aliasing on this card and fix this?

I use G400Tweak: http://home.thezone.net/~bm/myfiles.htm

Which adds a tab to your display settings allowing you to turn things on and off, like filtering and sub-pixel accuracy and stuff, this might help. Also, make sure you're not in 24-bit mode, it isn't accelerated at all.

2) I'm using the latest drivers (5.25.019) and the latest OpenGL ICD (I think) and Win98's screen savers look kinda pukey. The OpenGL ones are dog slow. Can I improve this?

This is a known bug. Some people they work for, some people they don't. The problem is that while the screensavers are in OpenGL, they use D3D mode change calls. This confuses the hell out of MANY ICD's (including ATI, 3dfx, etc. etc.) and they remain unaccelerated.

3) I have the Matrox tweak utility for overclocking (which I won't do), but is there a prog I can get to display my mem/clock speed settings?

Someone already mentioned MGATweak. Give it a shot.

- Gurm

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G. U. R. M. It's not hard to spell, is it? Then don't screw it up!
The word "Gurm" is in no way Copyright 1999 Jorden van der Elst.

**deejay** · 6 October 1999, 03:41

The Rock,
Thanks for the input on the gaming slant. My next game will also be system shock 2, supposed to be awesome. I guess my humble 350 PII will cope admirably.
I look forward to your comments re performance as and when.
Thanks again.
Oh I couldn't agree more about the country and western.

Cheers
Deejay

**PurpleHaze** · 6 October 1999, 07:05

So that's why the OGL screensavers are always slow. Neeto.

I'm really just posting because my sig bests Maggi's

Except for the memory. And nobody can afford memory now.

*phiz

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Ami Y. Koriuchi - foxyviolet@hotmail.com
Asus P2B 1010 - P3-500 - And a G400Max now.
256MB 6NS 70 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW

You're a ... 'guest' ... of the Master Control Program.

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**Mark F** · 6 October 1999, 08:02

Hey deejay,

>Oh I couldn't agree more about the country and western.

What WESTERN? I live on the d@mn EAST coast, and I'm subjected to it, daily. ;(

Mark F.

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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a CD

**Maggi** · 6 October 1999, 08:59

So you wanna mess with the big boys, Ami ?

Eat this new sig !

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Cheers,
Maggi
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Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB Bios 1010 final
Double Pentium III-450 @ 464 MHz
4 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead
Nokia 445Xi (21")
Nokia 447Xpro (17")
2 x IBM DDRS-34560W
1 x IBM DDRS-39130W
Syquest 5.25" 44, 88 & 200 MB
Syquest 3.5" 270 MB
IOmega 250 MB ZIP-Drive
IOmega 2 GB JAZ-Drive
Sony CDU-76S CD-ROM
Asus CD-S400/A CD-ROM
Python 4mm DAT
100Mbit full-duplex 3Com FastEtherlink XL NIC
Wacom A3-Pad
AGFA Arcus II Scanner
Epson Stylus Photo

**IceStorm** · 6 October 1999, 09:12

I don't know how you define "flying" for UT on the G400. I'm getting the distinct impression I should blow away Win98SE and reinstall, but I'm willing to futz with the registry first.

Anywho, if you want to quantitize "flying" for the G400 under UT, go to Tools, and turn on Timedemo Statistics. Play on Turbine against the computer for about 3 or 4 minutes. Run around a lot and shoot off the rocket launcher a bit, too, and get in some firefights with the bots. The numbers will tell you how your card is really doing. Come back and report your average, lowest, and highest frame rate here.

As for .sigs, here's mine. :-)

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Primary System: PIII-540 (450@4.5x120), Soyo 6BA+ III, 256MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, G400 MAX in multi-monitor mode. V2 SLI rig. Two Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900u monitors, 3Com 3C905, SoundBlaster Live!, DeskTop Theater DTT2500 DIGITAL Speaker System (Sweeeeeet!), 2nd Parallel Port, WD AC41800 18GB HD, WD AC310100 10GB HD, Toshiba SD-M1212 6x DVD-ROM, HP 8100i CD-RW, Epson Stylus Pro, Sharp JX-9400 LJ-II compatible, OptiUPS PowerES 650, MS SideWinder Precision Pro USB joystick, Logitech 3-button mouse, Mitsumi keyboard, Win98 SE, Belkin OmniCube 4-port KVM, 10/100 5-port Linksys Ethernet switch (30~40MB/min under Win98SE).

Secondary System: PII-266, Asus P2B BIOS 1008, 128MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, Millennium II, 3Com 3C590, ADSL Modem 640kbit down/90kbit up, 3Com 3C509, Mylex BT-930 SCSI card, Seagate 2GB Hawk, NEC 6x CD-ROM, Linux distro S.u.S.E. 6.1 (IP Masquerade works!)

Tertiary System: DFI G568IPC Intel 430HX chipset, P200MMX, 256MB of parity EDO RAM, Millennium II, Intel Pro/100+ client NIC, SoundBlaster 16 MCD, Fujitsu 3.5GB HD, WD 1.2GB HD, Creative Dxr3 DVD decoder card, Hitachi GD-2500 6x DVD-ROM, Win98 SE

All specs subject to change.

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**Himself** · 6 October 1999, 09:20

http://home.thezone.net/~bm/myfiles.html

He left off the 'L'.

**The Rock** · 6 October 1999, 09:52

Himself: DOH!!! I shoulda seen that. Thanks. This G400 Tweak is niiiicce. Just what I was looking for.

Mark: I just moved up to Ottawa from Nova Scotia, and BOY do I feel your pain. Nothing can enrage a man more than music by the Rankin Family, with the possible exception of ATI video cards.

Goddamn, man, I'm gonna have to buy a whole new system just to keep up with all you people's boasting.

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The Rock
"Discourage incest - ban country music NOW!"

System:
P2 350 /w Asus P2B 1010 (PC equivalent of 3 inch penis)
128 Meg PC100 SDRAM
17.2Gig Maxtor DiamondMax HD
6.4Gig Fujitsu HD
Matrox G400 32Meg
SB PCI 128 Sound
Modem Blaster 56K Modem
Panasonic 2x/4x SCSI Toaster
32X CD-ROM

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**Maggi** · 6 October 1999, 16:09

LOL ... not really, Rocky

It is my new working rig and if I'd add all the peripherals and add-ons that are plugged in, my sig would exceed your browser

Back at home I have an Asus P2B-S with a Celery300A @ 504MHz and the MillG400 32MB DH @ 150/200MHz and 256MG CAS2 SDRAM.
That one's more my league of funds ...

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Cheerio,
Maggi
________________________
Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
2x P3-450 @ 464MHz
512MB CAS2 SDRAM
Millenium G400 32MB DH

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