Concerned ...

[frankymail]

Nope, it was one of those self-inflatable ones, like the lifevests on airplanes… The problem is that if it goes off it the wrong place… You've got to be careful with those things. BTW, i'm also the reason they invented those long balloons… and no matter how hard I try, I just can't fold mine in half, because I can't even reach the other end

Man, this is turning into a |H|ardOCP forum discussion...

C Ya, gotta have at least some work done

[{PainCresT}DAn]

Originally posted by Marshmallowman
And as matrox says in won't be q3 fps king...because q3 barely uses the new hardware...eg at 160fps it will be running cool, and if you enable AA your fps will stay at 160 and still won't break a sweat.

Sorry to quote ya but if that statement is even close to being true then you damn right I'll be impressed a whole shitload because that would be awsome.

My GF3 Ti200 64MB drops to half the fps(from about 100 FPS) it has without AA when enabled using Quincux (or whatever it is called), its not really that bad but I have to drop from 1024 to 800 because it sits around 60 FPS when nothing is going on. I must admit that it looks great but when I play CS everything is smooth until someone throws a smoke bomb (and btw I have it set to best quality for smoke detail) and then 20 to 30 FPS while I have the smoke visible on the screen.

My rig:
MSI K7T Turbo 2 (KT133a)
512MB Micron CAS2 PC133
Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53Ghz not OC'd... just upgraded still much fast than 900Mhz TBird... will eventualy oc it)
Volcano 7 CPU Cooler
MSI StarForce GF3 Ti200 64MB
Intel Pro 10/100 NIC
SB Audigy X-Gamer
WD 60GB HDD
MS IntelliEye Explorer V3.0 (totaly rocks never skips totaly recomend it... and I hate MS so this is totaly worth the money)
I always max the eye candy on my machine and won't settle for less since I've been playing games for about 22 years I'm tired of blur and blocky crap.(I'm not that old but I started playing video games at 4 years old... VIC 20 OH YEAH BABY, audio cassette storage the only way, LOL... you do the math , I'm not that old)
The rest makes not difference...

[ZokesPro]

Man oh man. FPS this FPS that. Do we really need Quake 3 to run at FPS?

Don't think so. If it never goes under say 40 than it's all good!

Remember that nVidia doesn't focus on quality just speed, speed ain't where it's at no more, weez gots da speed now! Beleedat!

[{PainCresT}DAn]

Hey if you havn't noticed I'm not trying to bad mouth the Parhelia but totaly praise it.

I have the rig you see above and I still get 20 to 30 FPS with eye candy on ... Thats pathetic that I have all that good gear and still get bad FPS on a 5 YEAR OLD GAME... and I'll tell ya that even when I had a 900MHZ CPU it was the same ... did not change all that much just a bit (a little bit better). The reason for the 900MHZ remark is to stress that its not just old engine and slow CPU that can cause problems in other words its an old game so therefore T&L and GPU stuff didn't exist so its done old style... on CPU and increasing the CPU speed didn't make a difference on the smoke bomb problem.

[ZokesPro]

I know what your saying.

But you have to remember that those benchmarks could very well be false.

[Evildead666]

Originally posted by {PainCresT}DAn


... VIC 20 OH YEAH BABY, audio cassette storage the only way, LOL... you do the math , I'm not that old)
The rest makes not difference...

I used to have a Dragon 32
about the same era. First digitized speech in "Intruder Alert!".
Those good old tapes......

[Indiana]

Don't know this "intruder Alert" speech.
But I sure can remember the first understandable "speech" (kind of) that I heard from a computer: it was the C=64 game ghostbusters.
BTW, I started with a VC20 as well, then C=128, Amiga,....

(BTW, anyone remember that funny-sounding Amiga speech synthesis where you could let the computer spell any sentence you typed?)

[xortam]

The first computerized voice I recall hearing was around the late '60s. The computer (don't know what) sang "Daisy".

[ssmith]

The first computerized voice I recall hearing was around the late '60s. The computer (don't know what) sang "Daisy".

Erm, that would be the HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke's '2001 A Space Oddysey', as Dave Bowman pulls the circuits out of the poor stricken chess playing computer.

[xortam]

No, this was much earlier than that. I was amused when I saw it redone in "2001". I think Kubrick had Hal sing "Daisy" as a reversion to that earlier programming, as if the computers had a common lineage. I'll have to ask my Dad if he recalls the details.

[Indiana]

Well, of course I meant computers affordable to the normal mortal being....

[xortam]

Originally posted by Indiana
Well, of course I meant computers affordable to the normal mortal being....

Oh, you mean those personal computers that everyone's been talking about.

[frankymail]

Nope, I think he's talking about those things called "Dells" that everyone seems to be getting these days

[Marshmallowman]

poker SAM-> atari well before ghost busters

first speaking mass market consumer computer
(without add on hardware)

[TdB]

back on topic:

why you shouldn´t be concerned:

http://forum.matrox.com/mgaforum/Forum8/HTML/001254.html

haig, I was wondering does the Parhelia has the highest lowest frames than other cards ?

the answer from haig:

Yes