If you haven't got the Isle of Morg demo

[Eternal_God]

Damn right. I was just testing out all the demos, and all of them are amazing.

But after experimenting with the Isle of Morg demo, I'm having a hard time lifting my jaw up from the floor.

To all those who still believe that the Voodoo5 is the better card - you need to see these demos. T+L may not be used in games yet, but it is the future (the demos show a glimpse of it), and the Voodoo 5 doesn't have it. It matters, believe me.

Here's what John Carmack (gaming god) has to say about the Voodoo 5 and the GeForce 2 - these qoutes are from his gaming plan @ http://finger.planetquake.com/plan.asp?userid=johnc&id=14425

"There are two drawbacks: it's expensive, and it won't take advantage of the new rasterization features coming in future games. It probably wouldn't be wise to buy a voodoo5 if you plan on keeping it for two years."

"GeForce is my baseline for current rendering work, so I can wholeheartedly
recommend it."

There you have it.

- Eternal God
My jaw still hurts! :mad:

[Faking]

If this isn't the most amazing thing you've ever seen on a computer then I'd like to see what is. Some Geforce 2's are shipping with this demo and some aren't. If you haven't got it it's about 40mb and available from a link in their May 2000 news archive. Don't know if it works on a geforce 1 but I expect so.
http://www.ixbt-labs.com/news

[$h@d0w]

Hi guys,

Agreed the demos are fantastic, really eye-popping stuff ;-)

But I'm having problems getting the Principles of Shading demo working, keeps crashing before it loads fully, tried 32bit/16bit colour desktop but that didn't help.

Any ideas?

PS - the crystal ball demo is my fav, also the lightning one, feck, I like em all ! ;-)

[Stormy]

Triple post.. ouch...

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[Stormy]

Tripple post.. :)

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[Stormy]

The Isle of Morg demo was choppy as hell on mine..

What settings did you use to run it? Texture size? Colour Depth and Resolution?

Quake 3 on the other hand was gorgeous and quick right up at 1600x1200 as is the MDK2 Demo.

Mike

[sunama]

stormy, try slowing down your gpu speed. (yes i do mean slow it down. bring it down to around 195 and apparently that sorts out that problem, u can overclock your memory speed as high as u want to though).

Also, a quote from eternal god's post:

Here's what John Carmack (gaming god) has to say about the Voodoo 5 and the GeForce 2 -
"There are two drawbacks: it's expensive, and it won't take advantage of the new rasterization features coming in future games. It probably wouldn't be wise to buy a voodoo5 if you plan on keeping it for two years."

I completely agree with what he said, but, i have no intention of keeping my video card for 2 years (i dont think many of us are using power vr or voodoo grafix cards-these are 2 years old). I usually change video cards every year so no sense in me spending money on something (t+l) that cant be used in games. By then (1 year) rampage will be out with t+l and maybe that might be able to compete with nvidias t+l engine. Who knows...
For now, i vote for the v5 5500 with its superior image quality, higher frame rates with fsaa enabled, its greater overclocking ability and not to mention its ability to work well with 800mhz+ cpus (which i have :)).

sunama



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