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| | Senior Member with 819 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Experience: Advanced | | I noticed those Omega Drivers just the other day. Its a shame there is no comparison of their performance to the stock standard drivers. I'd like to see how much of a performance hit using the Omega drivers for better quality will lead to.
But I for one generally like to have my video card settings right in the middle. With a nice balance of fps and high resolution. | | Distinguished Member with 9,628 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Myrtle Beach SC (paradise) Experience: Intermediate | | Just for info. The omega drivers are the stock standard drivers that have been optimized, and when installing you have the option of installing for preformance, quality, or a mix of both. | | Senior Member with 819 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Experience: Advanced | | Ahh well that sounds better. I didn't realise it had that option. Ohh well, I still like to leave the fun of tweaking upto myself | | Member with 55 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: With TyTy, of the Tundra - a Jack Russell Terrior of reknown | | I have a Nvidia Pro - Gforce2 GTS. Running on ME platform, 600 Mhz, Duron ... Gigabyte 7ZX motherboard, the vid card from Gainward (aka CardExpert). 256Meg Ram. 32Meg aperature setting now.
Firstly - this great thing is not ME compatible? Dang. Sounds like a typical fine thing that ME won't handle. I'm getting used to it though.
I have used the "coolbits" registry patch - overclocking seems ok.
I've read that this card can be altered with some patience and care to be a faster card - hardware surgery tweaks with the card's guts!
No stomach here for the touchy stuff with the card - there's some horror stories out there on failed attempts. But - would love a way to bring the video speed higher. It's probably this hag OS I'm using ... ME is a hard hard environment to stick with. A new OS is just hard to budget now. Thing is, I'm wondering if I was better off with a VooDoo 4500 I yanked so's to play some games that hated that card ...
Anybody ... ideas? Tweaks?
Spark | | Senior Member with 819 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Experience: Advanced | | Pay a visit over too http://www.techspot.com/guides-hardware.shtml and have a look at the Geforce 2 tweak guide. I'm sure you'll be able to gain some extra speed.
You mentioned you've overclocked your card. Thats the simplest way yo get extra speed. I reccommend a program like NVMax too do the job. Just be careful about the extra heat. Having a program like 3dMark2002 would also be a nice way to measure how much faster you've increased your video card. It's a program that gives you a 3d benchmark for comparison. Its really handy. | | Senior Member with 241 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: 34:45 south, 138:37 east Experience: Advanced | | Thanks for the tweak guide page, I found it real interesting | | Member with 55 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: With TyTy, of the Tundra - a Jack Russell Terrior of reknown | | You have my thanks too.
I am in the process of downloading the NVMax program you mentioned.
I can't explain why, but those of you in OZ seem to be quite good with video issues. It was an Aussie site that showed how to use the "coolbits" reg change - some other tips too. I am grateful to all of you.
Regards,
Spark
__________________ "Careful with that axe, Eugene." - Pink Floyd | | Senior Member with 819 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Experience: Advanced | | Lol  Sparkle Tom, I can't speak for all Australians. But I know I love my video card so much, and just want to be able to make it go as fast as possible. So maybe all Australians have a drive for making their video cards perform optimally? And so in the process we've all become experts on video issues. Lol | | Senior Member with 1,877 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: North Carolina, USA Experience: Programming-Advanced|EVER |
09-Apr-2003, 04:22 PM
#10 | is there a site like this for audio adapters? I have a pc that has a weird sound card. The windows driver does an awful job and it sound disgusting. | | Senior Member with 819 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Experience: Advanced |
10-Apr-2003, 08:05 AM
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