There are rumours that Nvidia will come out with an Nforce chipset for the Hammer, and due to the architecture of it, memory sharing would be no longer possible.
So there would be 32 or 64MB RAM on-board, exclusively dedicated to the GPU (BTW it was the same way in the 486 and pentium's day : integrated video parts had their own 1MB of memory on the mainboard)
I disagree. the GF4MX has the same bandwith savings technologies as the GeForce4 (Z-buffer optimisation, occlusion culling and so). plus you can use dual PC2700 DDR on the Nforce2 versus Nforce1's dual PC2100.
And there are benches out that show that the nforce2's integrated GPU is two times more powerful than the Nforce1's one.
simply type "descent -640x480" (or 640x400, 320x400, and... 320x100 bwahahaha) and your problem should be fixed.
descent looks really nice in high resolution (and strange in 320x100. that resolution makes it playable on a 486SX)
There's also a 3DFX patch that allows you play in 800x600, even on a Voodoo1!
I found the solution to my problem (and thanks to the moderators for having moded me down)
just copy the miniGL driver(3DFXvgl.dll) in the game's directory.
I've just downloaded it and ran it : it was a slideshow but ran properly. It was obviously doing some software opengl instead of using my great Voodoo2s SLI. I copied the opengl32.dll from c:\windows\system : it won't work either
So I took the opengl32.dll from wickedGL.
It runs very fast on my celeron 500 w/ voodoo2 SLI, but... I have no GUI at all, no HUD, it seems that the screen shows what's on my left, and I get tons of "hall of mirrors". Has someone experienced that too?
this piece of news is talking about euros? so why not using the euro symbol which is and not that crappy "EUR"? just type 10000 or 10000
(But... Maybe the "" character doesn't display well here?)
Same thing in France. Mobile phone numbers begin with 06 (and we've got reserved numbers too : 08 for commercial number phones and ISPs; 1 for emergency numbers - 15, 17, 18 ; 36 for various services - for example the Minitel, a splendid 1200 baud dumb terminal that many millions of French people own)
Receiving calls is not charged. I think blocking undesired calls is possible too. The caller's number always appear on your phone's (wireless or not) screen anyway. [but you can protect your identity for free too.]
I didn't even imagine received calls were charged in US, a alleged liberal country.
"If render-farms can't do it in anything approaching real-time, I don't really think that GPU's stand a chance yet"
I don't see your point. GPU are far more efficient in real-time rendering that render-farms. you'd need a LOT of CPU power to render doom III in software mode. Or even Unreal Tournament in 1600x1200.
"To test modules for which they do not have automatic equipment, or to test compatibility, they use a whole series of different computers. Old 486 machines, laptops and dual CPU servers are sometimes running Quake III for days and days. All this to be sure that things don't crash due to a faulty memory module."
lol, I wanna see Q3a on a 486 DX/4 120 with 128MB EDO and a GeForce 4MX PCI! considering Q1 was running at 5fps on a DX/2 66 with a 1MB orchid VLB card...
Nuclear power is the future! fuck you stupid ecologist!
my country, France, has the best nuclear technology in the world, and we build nuclear plants in China and India.
Nuclear power is the safest and the cleanest energy!
"Economics. Oil is cheaper to use than any of those. Solar, Wind and Nuclear require big capital investments up front and provide electrical energy which can't be stored without a big drop in efficiency. Oil and hydrogen, depending on how difficult it will be to mine it, don't have this problem"
No, nuclear power is cheaper than oil. In my country, France, 80% of the eletricity is made in nuclear plants.
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"Even if the race had started with a single, unalterable set of chromosomes, you'd expect to find significant damage in them by now, or to put it another way, significant variation due to damage"
So you admit there are random genetic mutations! that's the basement of the darwinian theory:p So, within a period of millions of years, how can one think that new species cannot appear?
BTW, God does not exist. [I shouldn't say that. It's useless. Even Alicebot (www.alicebot.org) who is an artificial entity told me I was wrong]
I don't know exactly when that standard was created, 1947 or 1949? I'm a bit young to remember it (it was near 40 years before my birth). But french TV set had a resolution of 819p (better than your poor 720...) Sadly they went back to 625p (theoretical value. it seems to be 576p otherwise) in 1962 for european compatibility (and for color there would have been bandwith problems)
but I don't care about HDTV: my 576p has better quality than DVD, with a classic reception (normal antenna, no cable or satellit). NTSC stinks. SECAM (séquentiel à mémoire) is way better. It's funny to see high quality images live from Palestine or Pakistan and blurry bullshit from Washington DC. NTSC looks worse than european VHS.
"Actually, the U.S. has almost zero net carbon emissions. " senseless affirmation, US is 25% of CO2 emissions whereas it's less than 5% of the world populations. Forests emitt as much carbon as they absorb it. US have four times the per-capita emissions of France.
Sorry but your country is clearly irresponsible. Thank Bush jr, the moron flooded by petrodollars
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A speech synthetizer (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/22/14342 40&mode=thread&tid=106) in order to do a Full-Audio text search?
I'm sure someone could do it IN SOVIET RUSSIA
that's it
No, it's Superman!
There are rumours that Nvidia will come out with an Nforce chipset for the Hammer, and due to the architecture of it, memory sharing would be no longer possible. So there would be 32 or 64MB RAM on-board, exclusively dedicated to the GPU (BTW it was the same way in the 486 and pentium's day : integrated video parts had their own 1MB of memory on the mainboard)
a DirectX 8.1 compliant would be way better
I disagree. the GF4MX has the same bandwith savings technologies as the GeForce4 (Z-buffer optimisation, occlusion culling and so). plus you can use dual PC2700 DDR on the Nforce2 versus Nforce1's dual PC2100.
And there are benches out that show that the nforce2's integrated GPU is two times more powerful than the Nforce1's one.
simply type "descent -640x480" (or 640x400, 320x400, and... 320x100 bwahahaha) and your problem should be fixed. descent looks really nice in high resolution (and strange in 320x100. that resolution makes it playable on a 486SX) There's also a 3DFX patch that allows you play in 800x600, even on a Voodoo1!
This is nothing else but an ENGINE. Not a real game. It's the worst FPS ever.
I found the solution to my problem (and thanks to the moderators for having moded me down) just copy the miniGL driver(3DFXvgl.dll) in the game's directory.
I've just downloaded it and ran it : it was a slideshow but ran properly. It was obviously doing some software opengl instead of using my great Voodoo2s SLI. I copied the opengl32.dll from c:\windows\system : it won't work either So I took the opengl32.dll from wickedGL. It runs very fast on my celeron 500 w/ voodoo2 SLI, but... I have no GUI at all, no HUD, it seems that the screen shows what's on my left, and I get tons of "hall of mirrors". Has someone experienced that too?
Fourth Post!!
What? I cannot add a 387 in my old IBM? Will this be extended to all PCs in order to force us to buy Palladium compliant hardware?
Would you buy a DVD player that would play your CD-ROMs 20 times slower?
this piece of news is talking about euros? so why not using the euro symbol which is and not that crappy "EUR"? just type 10000 or 10000 (But... Maybe the "" character doesn't display well here?)
Same thing in France. Mobile phone numbers begin with 06 (and we've got reserved numbers too : 08 for commercial number phones and ISPs; 1 for emergency numbers - 15, 17, 18 ; 36 for various services - for example the Minitel, a splendid 1200 baud dumb terminal that many millions of French people own) Receiving calls is not charged. I think blocking undesired calls is possible too. The caller's number always appear on your phone's (wireless or not) screen anyway. [but you can protect your identity for free too.] I didn't even imagine received calls were charged in US, a alleged liberal country.
"If render-farms can't do it in anything approaching real-time, I don't really think that GPU's stand a chance yet" I don't see your point. GPU are far more efficient in real-time rendering that render-farms. you'd need a LOT of CPU power to render doom III in software mode. Or even Unreal Tournament in 1600x1200.
"To test modules for which they do not have automatic equipment, or to test compatibility, they use a whole series of different computers. Old 486 machines, laptops and dual CPU servers are sometimes running Quake III for days and days. All this to be sure that things don't crash due to a faulty memory module."
lol, I wanna see Q3a on a 486 DX/4 120 with 128MB EDO and a GeForce 4MX PCI! considering Q1 was running at 5fps on a DX/2 66 with a 1MB orchid VLB card...
never heard about the atomic force microscope?
Nuclear power is the future! fuck you stupid ecologist! my country, France, has the best nuclear technology in the world, and we build nuclear plants in China and India. Nuclear power is the safest and the cleanest energy!
I thought Antarctica was ice on land... plus there's a HUGE amount of water in antarctic ices
Fuck you American imperialists, capitalism is evil!
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"Economics. Oil is cheaper to use than any of those. Solar, Wind and Nuclear require big capital investments up front and provide electrical energy which can't be stored without a big drop in efficiency. Oil and hydrogen, depending on how difficult it will be to mine it, don't have this problem" No, nuclear power is cheaper than oil. In my country, France, 80% of the eletricity is made in nuclear plants.
"Even if the race had started with a single, unalterable set of chromosomes, you'd expect to find significant damage in them by now, or to put it another way, significant variation due to damage"
:p
So you admit there are random genetic mutations! that's the basement of the darwinian theory
So, within a period of millions of years, how can one think that new species cannot appear?
BTW, God does not exist. [I shouldn't say that. It's useless. Even Alicebot (www.alicebot.org) who is an artificial entity told me I was wrong]
I don't know exactly when that standard was created, 1947 or 1949? I'm a bit young to remember it (it was near 40 years before my birth). But french TV set had a resolution of 819p (better than your poor 720...) Sadly they went back to 625p (theoretical value. it seems to be 576p otherwise) in 1962 for european compatibility (and for color there would have been bandwith problems) but I don't care about HDTV: my 576p has better quality than DVD, with a classic reception (normal antenna, no cable or satellit). NTSC stinks. SECAM (séquentiel à mémoire) is way better. It's funny to see high quality images live from Palestine or Pakistan and blurry bullshit from Washington DC. NTSC looks worse than european VHS.
"Actually, the U.S. has almost zero net carbon emissions. "
senseless affirmation, US is 25% of CO2 emissions whereas it's less than 5% of the world populations.
Forests emitt as much carbon as they absorb it.
US have four times the per-capita emissions of France.
Sorry but your country is clearly irresponsible. Thank Bush jr, the moron flooded by petrodollars