Author Topic: VooDoo 5 users (Read 666 times)

skernsk · « **on:** May 15, 2002, 10:13:06 AM »

I have a VooDoo 5 and have never really used the Anti - Aliasing. It is supposed to make a better pisture, but when I turn it on the text in the chat bar becomes very blurry and makes me go cross-eyed.

Is there another setting I need to adjust?

SOB · « **Reply #1 on:** May 15, 2002, 11:42:15 AM »

What res are you running at? I found all aspects of the picture looked best at 1024x768 with FSAA on.

SOB

Lephturn · « **Reply #2 on:** May 15, 2002, 11:44:48 AM »

If you have not been using FSAA with a V5... you are missing the whole reason to have this card IMO! I always run 1024x768 32 bit with 2x FSAA. Works great.

This is on Win98SE with an Athlon 700 (classic slot A) and 256 MB PC133 RAM. Just FYI.

Dunno what my framerate is... I turn that ugly green text off. It plays smooth though, with the exception of flying through smoke of course. Sometimes thick clouds can slow me down a bit too.

LePaul · « **Reply #3 on:** May 15, 2002, 12:27:38 PM »

Same as Lephturn...I pay the price for 2x FSAA (19 fps) but everything looks great.

I'm piecing together my new AMD Athlon XP 2000+ system now...its a real struggle on whether to bring the V5 over into it, or go with the GeForce 4 4600.

qts · « **Reply #4 on:** May 15, 2002, 03:15:19 PM »

I run my V5 at 1024x768x32x2FSAA and it's wonderful.

skernsk · « **Reply #5 on:** May 15, 2002, 03:21:40 PM »

I am running 1024 x 768 32 Bit color. I have 1,3G athlon and 512Mb RAM. I am using Windows 98se.

For some reason the text is fuzzy. I have tried using my monitor colntrols to fix it, but that is not helping. I now have to find our MOIRE control is and Degauss

My refresh rate is 75mHz although there is a choice to put it up to 85mHz

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #6 on:** May 17, 2002, 01:49:03 PM »

Skernsk, anti-aliasing adds a border a pixel thick around everything displayed on the screen.

So text, and other things, appear more blurry than they were before... but the image is now smooth.

It's because it's sampling together two images, so basically, there is no fix.. the text is about the only thing you'll notice not as good as before... everything else is much smoother and nicer. looking.
-SW

skernsk · « **Reply #7 on:** May 17, 2002, 02:07:30 PM »

Thanks folks. I'll get used t the text, the picture is much nicer.

Apache · « **Reply #8 on:** May 17, 2002, 07:12:25 PM »

Mine does the same thing skernsk, no matter what res. Thats with anti-alias on. If I have it set to fastest performance, everything is clear.

bloom25 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 17, 2002, 07:31:12 PM »

A little off-topic:

LePaul, do not use the V5 in your new system. Your framerate is limited by that card. Upgrading the rest of the system is not going to increase your framerates by any large margin.

There's also the issue of continued driver support for DX 8 and DX 9 future games.

LePaul · « **Reply #10 on:** May 20, 2002, 11:59:15 AM »

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Originally posted by bloom25
A little off-topic:

LePaul, do not use the V5 in your new system. Your framerate is limited by that card. Upgrading the rest of the system is not going to increase your framerates by any large margin.

There's also the issue of continued driver support for DX 8 and DX 9 future games.

Thanks....well, guess that geforce 4 4600 has even more reason to come home to papa! Which brand is best tho?

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #11 on:** May 20, 2002, 02:09:20 PM »

Not really Bloom, I tripled my fps going from C466 to an AMD Athlon 200(FSB)/900Mhz...

Still using a Voodoo5.

Even if he got a GF4, his system doesn't have the horsepower to push it. It makes more sense to upgrade mobo/memory/CPU first.
-SW

LePaul · « **Reply #12 on:** May 21, 2002, 09:59:14 AM »

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Originally posted by AKSWulfe
Not really Bloom, I tripled my fps going from C466 to an AMD Athlon 200(FSB)/900Mhz...

Still using a Voodoo5.

Even if he got a GF4, his system doesn't have the horsepower to push it. It makes more sense to upgrade mobo/memory/CPU first.
-SW

Umm, here are the new specs of the new system (still laying in their boxes...)

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU

MSI K7T Turbo2 (MS-6330 v5.0) Athlon Motherboard with onboard sound

512mb PC 133 RAM

Still debating which video card (GeForce 4 4600? Which brand?), DVD drive, hard disk, etc..

Eagler · « **Reply #13 on:** May 21, 2002, 10:54:36 AM »

PNY Geforce 4 ti4400 here

XP2000 & 512 ram

1280x1024 32bit

get a rock solid 85fps (limit of 19 trinitron monitor at that res as I use vsync enabled)

after reinstall of Win98 and AH, the 3D stereo glasses that came with card work pretty good. Got a 12 kill sortie in my 109f (2 refuels) this morning before work with my 3D glasses on

using drivers that came with card

gl

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #14 on:** May 21, 2002, 11:17:16 AM »

Oh, see, that's what I get for not reading the entire thread.. I thought you were still on that PII or PIII 500 you had.

I dunno what GF4s are good or not.
-SW