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Sam Higgins

To answer questions that people gave to me:

FedX and Newegg get a thumbs up! Very good service.

Halo - You guys were right, good single player game, but chokes and gags
when FSAA and filtering is turned on. I sure hope this isn't a taste of what
DirectX9 is about.

UT2004 Demo - I lost some hair playing this one!

Chimp Demo - The Chimp demo with everything cranked up was really cool. You
have to see it to believe it.

Kingpin is outta site for an oldie. Filtering doesn't seem to effect it, but
the FSAA sure does! Half Life running great too and others which I won't get
into. I got friends that got some new stuff so were going to see tonight who
cry's uncle first, the 9800 Pro or us.

One last annoyance, can you have profiles with the Omega or ATI drivers?
What I mean is, have different sets of settings that are easy to access
without having to enter the drivers every time. Nvidia had this little
utility you could easily right click and access different profiles without
climbing into the driver settings to get to the profile. If not, no biggie.
Thanks!
 
Sam Higgins said:
To answer questions that people gave to me:

FedX and Newegg get a thumbs up! Very good service.

Halo - You guys were right, good single player game, but chokes and gags
when FSAA and filtering is turned on. I sure hope this isn't a taste of what
DirectX9 is about.

UT2004 Demo - I lost some hair playing this one!

Chimp Demo - The Chimp demo with everything cranked up was really cool. You
have to see it to believe it.

Kingpin is outta site for an oldie. Filtering doesn't seem to effect it, but
the FSAA sure does! Half Life running great too and others which I won't get
into. I got friends that got some new stuff so were going to see tonight who
cry's uncle first, the 9800 Pro or us.

One last annoyance, can you have profiles with the Omega or ATI drivers?
What I mean is, have different sets of settings that are easy to access
without having to enter the drivers every time. Nvidia had this little
utility you could easily right click and access different profiles without
climbing into the driver settings to get to the profile. If not, no biggie.
Thanks!
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Glad to hear that things are going great! Told you Chimp was cool! I use a
little program called Atuner. It works great. It's super simple and gets the
job done.
I might have to load up King Pin just to see what it looks like with the
9800Pro. The game looked very cool back in the day. JLC
 
Halo - You guys were right, good single player game, but chokes and gags
when FSAA and filtering is turned on. I sure hope this isn't a taste of what
DirectX9 is about.
Click to expand...

Halo does its own filtering, you shouldn't run it with FSAA. It isn't
at all representative of DX9.
 
To answer questions that people gave to me:

Halo - You guys were right, good single player game, but chokes and gags
when FSAA and filtering is turned on. I sure hope this isn't a taste of what
DirectX9 is about.
Click to expand...

That was me? I sometimes go into HALO servers to lets folks know
about UT2004... Some are cool about it "is it good?" some are pricks
"Halo is the best, nothing touches it" - without even trying it out.

HALO is actually a DX8 game, it looks a little better on my ATI9800
over the Ti4200 I have. Look at UT2004, Halo doesn't have 1/4 the
detail or 10x the feature set of UT2004. So for online gaming, Halo
truely BLOWS... Come on, 3-4 good maps out of the whole game?
UT2004 Demo - I lost some hair playing this one!
Click to expand...

Hope you mean that in a good way! (They need to tweak some things
still) I have 2 PCs networked - So I've done a guy on the sniper
tower while controlling the Raptor (Jet) and the effect is VERY COOL -
looks very much like a SCI FI move the way the Raptor moves and comes
over the edge and its head lights even work a bit. In HALO, the
purple stupid alien Banshee (jet) is more of a 3rd axis moving
object... The Raptor banks, shifts and spins very jet like... it
looks soo good. In HALO, you got SISSY POW and it falls out of the
sky. No gibs. No flaming wreckage. Also, keeps the enemy players
from Keeping the VECS to themselves.
Chimp Demo - The Chimp demo with everything cranked up was really cool. You
have to see it to believe it.
Click to expand...

Try out the DAWN demo, that requires a wrapper and such:

http://www.rage3d.com/content/articles/atidawning

And you can remove her leaves.
 
Sam Higgins said:
One last annoyance, can you have profiles with the Omega or ATI drivers?
Click to expand...

Look up "radlinker", Omega drivers come with it already installed. With ATI
drivers you have to install it seperately.
 
you might want to try dna drivers. you still have to use control panel or
task bar applet to change settings, but I have had real good luck with them
http://www.dna-drivers.nl/


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David MacLeod
Etna, Maine USA
P4 2.8 OC to 3.13
1 GB DDR 466
Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB
2 Seagate 120 RAID 0
 
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 02:33:52 GMT, "Sam Higgins"


||One last annoyance, can you have profiles with the Omega or ATI drivers?
||What I mean is, have different sets of settings that are easy to access
||without having to enter the drivers every time. Nvidia had this little
||utility you could easily right click and access different profiles without
||climbing into the driver settings to get to the profile. If not, no biggie.
||Thanks!
||

Check this free program out called Radlinker. It allows you to assign
independant settings for each shortcut. (FSAA ANIO overclock textures
etc) Works like a charm for me.

http://www28.brinkster.com/chrisww1942/


Pluvious
 
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:23:38 GMT, Darthy

|
||Hope you mean that in a good way! (They need to tweak some things
||still) I have 2 PCs networked - So I've done a guy on the sniper
||tower while controlling the Raptor (Jet) and the effect is VERY COOL -
||looks very much like a SCI FI move the way the Raptor moves and comes
||over the edge and its head lights even work a bit. In HALO, the
||purple stupid alien Banshee (jet) is more of a 3rd axis moving
||object... The Raptor banks, shifts and spins very jet like... it
||looks soo good. In HALO, you got SISSY POW and it falls out of the
||sky. No gibs. No flaming wreckage. Also, keeps the enemy players
||from Keeping the VECS to themselves.
||
||>

Did you know you can change to 1st person mode while in the Raptor and
other vehicles ?? Just hit F4 and bingo.

Pluvious
 
Debug said:
Look up "radlinker", Omega drivers come with it already installed. With ATI
drivers you have to install it seperately.
Click to expand...

That did the trick! I like that better than profiles. A rocky start with
this card but this is getting better and better.
 
HALO is actually a DX8 game, it looks a little better on my ATI9800
over the Ti4200 I have. Look at UT2004, Halo doesn't have 1/4 the
detail or 10x the feature set of UT2004. So for online gaming, Halo
truely BLOWS... Come on, 3-4 good maps out of the whole game?
Click to expand...

If I recall right, back in the day when 3Dfx was still alive and the TNT was
re-branded the Geforce, I think Halo was written to show off the T & L of
the Geforce 2? I have a review in the now disbanded boot? magazine of some
of the early work on Halo.
 
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:23:38 GMT, Darthy

|
||Hope you mean that in a good way! (They need to tweak some things
||still) I have 2 PCs networked - So I've done a guy on the sniper
||tower while controlling the Raptor (Jet) and the effect is VERY COOL -
||looks very much like a SCI FI move the way the Raptor moves and comes
||over the edge and its head lights even work a bit. In HALO, the
||purple stupid alien Banshee (jet) is more of a 3rd axis moving
||object... The Raptor banks, shifts and spins very jet like... it
||looks soo good. In HALO, you got SISSY POW and it falls out of the
||sky. No gibs. No flaming wreckage. Also, keeps the enemy players
||from Keeping the VECS to themselves.
||
||>

Did you know you can change to 1st person mode while in the Raptor and
other vehicles ?? Just hit F4 and bingo.
Click to expand...

Or simple rotate your mouse wheel...

Hitting F4 also works for FOOT mode.
 
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