I Just Found The Holy Grail Of Video Card Software
Marik_Steele
To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
<div class="IPBDescription">My GeForce2 isn't ancient anymore!</div> I just found what may be a holy grail of 3d card software for gaming.
The bad news: it'll probably make performance stink. Horribly.
The good news: if what I'm reading is correct, it'll get games like Deus Ex 2, Halo, and Prince of Persia to <i>run</i> to begin with. The sort of games that seem to be programmed to make my GeForce2 laugh in my face when trying to start them, saying "foolish human, do you think I'm going to make the effort just to please you?"
Software T&L emulation. 'nuff said. If you're like me and you're too broke (or too careful with money) to buy a more recent video card, it's at <a href='http://www.tommti-systems.de' target='_blank'>www.tommti-systems.de</a>, in the Files section. It's called 3d-analyze, and was mentioned in the website FAQ for One Must Fall: Battlegrounds as a way of getting the game to work on video cards below minimum requirements (even Voodoo 5's and TNT2's, if your CPU is fast enough to make up for your video card's age).
Sorry to say that I haven't actually tried it yet myself, but I'm going to try the DX2 demo the moment I'm not busy tonight...or tomorrow night. I'm getting allergic to work...
The bad news: it'll probably make performance stink. Horribly.
The good news: if what I'm reading is correct, it'll get games like Deus Ex 2, Halo, and Prince of Persia to <i>run</i> to begin with. The sort of games that seem to be programmed to make my GeForce2 laugh in my face when trying to start them, saying "foolish human, do you think I'm going to make the effort just to please you?"
Software T&L emulation. 'nuff said. If you're like me and you're too broke (or too careful with money) to buy a more recent video card, it's at <a href='http://www.tommti-systems.de' target='_blank'>www.tommti-systems.de</a>, in the Files section. It's called 3d-analyze, and was mentioned in the website FAQ for One Must Fall: Battlegrounds as a way of getting the game to work on video cards below minimum requirements (even Voodoo 5's and TNT2's, if your CPU is fast enough to make up for your video card's age).
Sorry to say that I haven't actually tried it yet myself, but I'm going to try the DX2 demo the moment I'm not busy tonight...or tomorrow night. I'm getting allergic to work...
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I'm starting to play through The Sands of Time a second time...damn I loved that game.
Here's the rub: if your card can't run DX2 or the like on your vid card normally, forcing it to run anyway will get you right around 2fps. Hurray.
Save yourself the trouble and spend $80 on a graphics card. I did, and it runs DX2 just fine in 800x600 with options turned most of the way up (1.6gHz processor btw). When that one craps out a few years down the line, go get another $80 one. The difference between it and a $200-$500 card isn't worth it unless you <i>really</i> care about the graphical settings being cranked up.
Here's the rub: if your card can't run DX2 or the like on your vid card normally, forcing it to run anyway will get you right around 2fps. Hurray.
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2FPS is good enough for me. I played through the 2-level demo of DX1 at least a half dozen times, then bought the game and played the first half of it twice, all on a system with an on-board 8meg video card and a CPU 66MHz below "minimum" system requirements. Had to run it with <a href='http://www.sonicspot.com/winsolo/winsolo.html' target='_blank'>WinSolo</a>, which is about as hardcore as you can get with Win98 memory management -- let the computer load the system kernel and just enough drivers to get video, sound, and IO working, then load game and enjoy at <10FPS. Playing it through to the end on this newer system was an enjoyable step up.
If DX2 is as good, I'll be fine with the demo until I can afford a new video card. As it is right now any time I have for gaming goes to NS or Planescape: Torment, so I can probably get enough Gaming Goodness ™ to hold me off entirely until spring, when I'll be sick of telling my friends to shut up if they're about to spoil DX2 or KOTOR's plot.
[edit]I'm looking around in the manual for this program, trying to understand the non-english...but this chart and the word "tested" look favorable: it looks like this program is tested and working for Halo, the DX2 demo, 3dMark03...I'm going to be messing with a lot of stuff this weekend.
I would say yay now I could maybe run unreal 2 but alas, my dad has borked my computer
Crappy game, imo.