Unreal Tournament + GeForce2 Pro = ROCKS!!!!!

[Boogy Man]

Just wanted to say anyone playing Unreal and who was thinking about upgrading to a GeForce card - dont hold back. I had a Viper2 running metal drivers which gave pretty good pic quality and high FPS (60 -70)
& stability. But I needed that little bit extra edge. So I tried the GeForce Hercules Prophet 64mb PRO . I had tried the original GeForce (3 different makes) when they first came out and had nothing but lockups in games. I swore off Geforce forever, but the new drivers 6.35 version make this newer card scream while being stable. It will cruise UT at over 100 FPS while looking good.
Make sure you download the drivers (Renderer)from Epic for unreal. I run UT in either D3d or Opengl. If you run the original UT drivers the picture will be quite dark and hard to see the enemy. The new drivers from Epic force you to turn down the brightness which I never had to do before. Picture looks awesome. No lockups at all - it's been running non-stop for 24 hrs so far. I played all sorts of games with it too. Q3, NHL Hockey 2001, with np probs.
So I say go for it.

My system specs are:
Athlon 800 K7
Gigbyte 7ix
256 Ram
GeForce2 64 Prophet Pro
IBM 20g hardrive 7200
Soundblaster X-gamer
Sony G400 19in Monitor

[Sol]

Originally posted by Boogy Man:
Just wanted to say anyone playing Unreal and who was thinking about upgrading to a GeForce card - dont hold back. I had a Viper2 running metal drivers which gave pretty good pic quality and high FPS (60 -70)
& stability. But I needed that little bit extra edge. So I tried the GeForce Hercules Prophet 64mb PRO . I had tried the original GeForce (3 different makes) when they first came out and had nothing but lockups in games. I swore off Geforce forever, but the new drivers 6.35 version make this newer card scream while being stable. It will cruise UT at over 100 FPS while looking good.
Make sure you download the drivers (Renderer)from Epic for unreal. I run UT in either D3d or Opengl. If you run the original UT drivers the picture will be quite dark and hard to see the enemy. The new drivers from Epic force you to turn down the brightness which I never had to do before. Picture looks awesome. No lockups at all - it's been running non-stop for 24 hrs so far. I played all sorts of games with it too. Q3, NHL Hockey 2001, with np probs.
So I say go for it.

My system specs are:
Athlon 800 K7
Gigbyte 7ix
256 Ram
GeForce2 64 Prophet Pro
IBM 20g hardrive 7200
Soundblaster X-gamer
Sony G400 19in Monitor

If you don't mind me asking, what OS are you running?



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"You know, I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads. Is that too much to ask?"

[Adamp44]

Cool, I just bought that same card. My current card is okay, but causes problems in UT and Deus Ex. I'm hopeing to solve the problem. I just hope it's not Win2K that's killing my games.

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900MHz@1GHz Thunderbird
Global WIN FOP38 w/Artic Silver
Abit KT7-RAID
256MB Crucial PC133 CAS2
32MB Diamond Viper TNT2 Ultra
Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer 5.1
Cambridge SoundWorks DTT2500 5.1
30GB IBM Deskstar 75GXP
NetGear Ethernet Card
50X CD-ROM
Generic Floppy
Enlight 7237 w/300W PSU
15" ADI MicroScan

[Sol]

I had problems with my GeForce 2 and UT. I am running win2k and in DirectX the gameplay was really laggy. I changed over to OpenGL and everything was fine.

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"You know, I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads. Is that too much to ask?"

[Boogy Man]

Oh yeah - I running Win98 SE with DirectX 7.0. I'm a little afraid to try DirectX 8.0 due to hearing stability problems. Any feedback would help.

[BoogyMan]

Originally posted by Boogy Man:
Oh yeah - I running Win98 SE with DirectX 7.0. I'm a little afraid to try DirectX 8.0 due to hearing stability problems. Any feedback would help.

Who is this guy, anyways??


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"Everybody funny. Now you funny, too."

[Dude]

Originally posted by BoogyMan:

Who is this guy, anyways??

LOL



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I'm not fluffy!

[Adamp44]

Originally posted by Boogy Man:
Oh yeah - I running Win98 SE with DirectX 7.0. I'm a little afraid to try DirectX 8.0 due to hearing stability problems. Any feedback would help.

Unoriginal.

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900MHz@1GHz Thunderbird
Global WIN FOP38 w/Artic Silver
Abit KT7-RAID
256MB Crucial PC133 CAS2
32MB Diamond Viper TNT2 Ultra
Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer 5.1
Cambridge SoundWorks DTT2500 5.1
30GB IBM Deskstar 75GXP
NetGear Ethernet Card
50X CD-ROM
Generic Floppy
Enlight 7237 w/300W PSU
15" ADI MicroScan

[cmaMath]

So, what are these special driver from Epic you are talking about?

I am running a Hercules Prophet 2 Ultra with 1.1GHz T-Bird. Have you tried utilizing the FSAA? I have been messing around with it tonight and you can play UT at 1024x768x32 at 4X FSAA! Not too shabby.

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cmaMath13@juno.com

TB 1.1GHz
Asus A7V KT133
256MB PC133 SDRAM
64MB DDR Hercules Prophet Ultra
SB Live!
45GB IBM Deskstar (ATA 100)
32/12/10a Plexwriter
16/40x Pioneer DVD
US Robotics Hardware Modem

[sapasion]

Originally posted by BoogyMan:

Who is this guy, anyways??

Oh no there's two!

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Fear
Fear attracts the fearful; the strong, the weak, the innocent, the corrupt
Fear
Fear is my ally

[Cam]

I run UT in D3D right now at 1024x768x32. With VSYNC off it hovers pretty close to 125 fps which blows me away. ONly using patch 4.36 and stock renderer. i tried the UT S3TC disk and the LOKI ogl but it was studdery. I may try this new renderer too. I too am not using DX 8 cuz of the lack of DX 8 drivers from nVidia though there are 7.17's which apparently are buggy I've read. I guess the renderer works with DX 7 obviously too.

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Cam

My rig is...

AMD Athlon 1000
ASUS A7V
Maxtor 30.5 GIG ATA 100
128 PC 133
SB Live! Value
ASUS V7700 Geforce 2 GTS 32 Meg
Dell 19" Trinitron Monitor

Sure beats the old k6-2

[BoogyMan]

Originally posted by sapasion:
Oh no there's two!

Only one Shark Daddy.

Only one.


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everythings blue
in this world
the deepest shade of mushroom blue
all fuzzy
spilling out of my head

[The Gingerbread Man]

Originally posted by Adamp44:
Cool, I just bought that same card. My current card is okay, but causes problems in UT and Deus Ex. I'm hopeing to solve the problem. I just hope it's not Win2K that's killing my games.

[The Gingerbread Man]

Hey I noticed you have the KT7-Raid. have you tried the 3D Prophet II Pro with this mobo yet? I have both and I kept getting the beeps when I tried to start it up. I read on the go.to/kt7faq website that there is a known problem with this combo that Guillemot acknowledges. They will repair it if you RMA it. I was just curious to know if you've had any success with it or have RMA'd it to Guillemot. I'm considering RMA'ing it back to the vendor and getting the Hercules Ultra instead.

Originally posted by Adamp44:
Cool, I just bought that same card. My current card is okay, but causes problems in UT and Deus Ex. I'm hopeing to solve the problem. I just hope it's not Win2K that's killing my games.

[Boogy Man]

The Epic drivers are the "Renderer" drivers you install in the Unrealtournament/systems folder. These are the D3D & opengl .dll files. I want to say that when I installed the D3D renderer driver I had a decrease in FPS and overall performance, aproximately 50%, so I put the original D3D driver back.
I installed the Loki opengl drivers over the weekend. These drivers rock!!
Make sure you edit your Unrealtournament.ini file to take advantage of the S3TC textures.
I made two screenshots of the D3D & Opengl. The Opengl blows away the D3D in looks, but performance is about the same. It also took care of that stuttering I was getting in opengl before.

On the flip side - What are the best GeForce drivers out right now? I'm currently running the Hercules 6.35? I've heard the Nvidia 6.50 are good? Any comments?

The "original" Boogy Man