Author Topic: NEW VIA/133 AGP GART DRIVERS (Read 796 times)

Animal · « **on:** May 25, 2001, 02:41:00 AM »

MAJOR performance boost for me on Aces High. Havent tried other games, but reports are good on the whole.
I can fly at 1024x768x32 with 4xFSAA and it only drops below 30 when flying thru a lot of smoke.

couldnt do that before.
http://www.viahardware.com/download/vagp405c.zip

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #1 on:** May 25, 2001, 07:59:00 AM »

Your hardware setup Animal?

Animal · « **Reply #2 on:** May 25, 2001, 03:48:00 PM »

oops sorry

Asus A7V BIOS 1007
AMD Duron at 1ghz
256mb PC133 SDRAM
GeForce 2 GTS 32MB
Windows 98 SE

Remember to install the drivers in TURBO mode.

bloom25 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 25, 2001, 07:04:00 PM »

I installed them under Win2k. I didn't notice much of a difference. They didn't seem to break anything, but at most I only picked up a frame or two.

Chances are they resolve some compatibility issues, so installing them is not a bad idea anyway.

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Animal · « **Reply #4 on:** May 26, 2001, 12:32:00 AM »

cc thanks for testing.

for me it was a big fr boost on AH.
Its no placebo effect either, I just couldnt fly before with 4x anti aliasing. now I can.

maybe I got such a boost because I had a bad driver installation before?

bloom25 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 26, 2001, 12:33:00 AM »

You have a voodoo 5 card right? Maybe this version improved the performance of them. They are so new that the issues that they fixed haven't yet been published.

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Animal · « **Reply #6 on:** May 26, 2001, 12:43:00 AM »

Geforce 2 GTS 32mb

Pollock · « **Reply #7 on:** May 26, 2001, 04:04:00 PM »

Animal

I have a tbird 850 with gforce gts 32meg, how do you run 4X fsaa and are there any jaggies. I run 1280 X 1024 but monitor only does it at 60HZ would change to FSAA if fr stays above 30 in smoke I run 60 highest so far

Animal · « **Reply #8 on:** May 26, 2001, 04:35:00 PM »

Pollock,
You are running 60 fastest because your Hz is set at that speed, and you have V-Synch OFF.

To run FSAA and all other settings, I use nVmax. Its a nice utility to tweak nvidia cards.
www.nvmax.com

MrSiD · « **Reply #9 on:** May 27, 2001, 04:47:00 AM »

Animal: actually vsync ON limits your framerate according to your monitor refresh rate. Vsync OFF you can get much higher framerates regardless of your monitor refresh speed.

However when playing Aces High, it's reckommended to keep vsync ON at all times because leaving it off can cause rubber bullet effects. I know, I've been there.

Sandman_SBM · « **Reply #10 on:** May 27, 2001, 11:53:00 AM »

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Originally posted by MrSiD:
Animal: actually vsync ON limits your framerate according to your monitor refresh rate. Vsync OFF you can get much higher framerates regardless of your monitor refresh speed.

Hmmm on 1.07 did the VSYNC selection go away? I see options for frame rate limiting: Unlimited, 45FPS, and 60FPS.

BTW... I'm using a Voodoo 3.

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SKurj · « **Reply #11 on:** May 28, 2001, 07:41:00 PM »

Vsync was never an option in Aces, its selectable within your video card's advanced options, or via a tweak utility.

SKurj

Sandman_SBM · « **Reply #12 on:** May 29, 2001, 12:01:00 AM »

Okay... it seems to me there were some other video options before... can't recall what they were.

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