Well prior to the 770 I had a Viper 550, prior to that I had a 2d+Canopus
Voodoo 1. The Viper cards have awesome color saturation, much better then
the voodoo cards, speed wise all the reviews I have seen rate the TNT2 cards
as good or better then the voodoo-3.
Rokenn
>From: John Kim <kim@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] OT-High Speed Access
>Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 12:32:16 -0400 (EDT)
>
>From: John Kim <kim@...>
>
>On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Rokenn Swiftsong wrote:
> > >From: John Kim <kim@...>
> >
> > >The worst are are effect spells. Those will drop my Celeron
> > >450 with Voodoo3 card (overclocked to 3000 speed) to about 2
> > >frames per second, even at low particle density.
> >
> > This is why I have taken to turning particle density OFF in a large
>group
> > and always tell my group members they should too. I have a PIII-450 with
>a
> > Viper 770 and 256MB of ram and I still get massive lag in caster heavy
> > battles. The only problem with PD being off is that many songs and
>spells
> > give no visual clue. Verant should make it so there is something, even
>a
> > little glow. As it is I have to pay very close attention to the text
> > messages in battle to weave well, it can get very tedious.
>
>Yup, that's why I leave it on low. If I'm busy charming or
>mesmerizing or raising everyone's resist, I have to know
>whether or not my party needs me to chain as well, and I
>usually can't tell if I can't see the root graphic effects
>swirling around the mob.
>
>Since you have a 770 (TNT2, right?), can I ask what card you
>had before, and how you feel about the performance of the 770?
>I'm thinking of upgrading from my Voodoo3 to a TNT2 card.
>The V3 speed is very nice, but the color banding is obvious
>and I think it's a bit slow with the heavy spell effects. The
>spell effects don't seem to lag the card as badly in glide
>mode, but framerate is a bit slower and the banding is even
>worse.
>
>--
>John H. Kim
>kim@...
>
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