3D Boards

Well.. my system just doesn't like the Intergraph Reactor 3d board, but what about the Screamer 3d.. Mistique or Creative Laps 3d blaster (PCI) board?? Any comments are greatly appreciated! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

> Well.. my system just doesn't like the Intergraph Reactor 3d board, > but what about the Screamer 3d.. Mistique or Creative Laps 3d blaster > (PCI) board?? Any comments are greatly appreciated! > MERRY CHRISTMAS! Charlie: What kind of system do you have a DELL P-150??? Don

Quoted text (11 lines)

>> Well.. my system just doesn't like the Intergraph Reactor 3d board, >> but what about the Screamer 3d.. Mistique or Creative Laps 3d blaster >> (PCI) board?? Any comments are greatly appreciated! >> MERRY CHRISTMAS! >Charlie: >What kind of system do you have a DELL P-150??? >Don

Don, I made the system myself... the motherboard is a Intel FX Chip Set (256 cache) (J-656C). I've got a Intel Pentium 150 cpu.. 24 megs of memory. 3 hard drives (all Western Digital) and a quad speed hard drive. I've got a Practical Periferals 28.8 fax modem, sound blaster 16 sound card.. ch3 game card.

Quoted text (11 lines)

> > Well.. my system just doesn't like the Intergraph Reactor 3d board, > > but what about the Screamer 3d.. Mistique or Creative Laps 3d blaster > > (PCI) board?? Any comments are greatly appreciated! > > MERRY CHRISTMAS! > Charlie: > What kind of system do you have a DELL P-150??? > Don

The Canopus TOTAL 3D board is now the tops rendition board. I bmarked it vs. the Reactor which I also own (its going to my kids pC) and it is a full _31%_ faster than Reactor. It is somewhat faster than Sierra's card, but not as big a diff as Reactor. Just make sure your mboard supports dma or buy a new mboard that does. antia-aliased 640x480 N2 at 30+ fps is gorgeous. Leigh

It is faster mainly because of the optimized drivers. The hardware differences should have a minimal effect (faster RAMDAC and 5 or 10ns faster RAM). I've been out of town for the past week, so care to tell me how your running N2 with anti-aliasing? I checked with Intergraph, Rendition, and Sierra and could not find a patch. -- Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

Quoted text (7 lines)

>The Canopus TOTAL 3D board is now the tops rendition board. I bmarked >it vs. the Reactor which I also own (its going to my kids pC) and it is >a full _31%_ faster than Reactor. It is somewhat faster than Sierra's >card, but not as big a diff as Reactor. Just make sure your mboard >supports dma or buy a new mboard that does. antia-aliased 640x480 N2 at >30+ fps is gorgeous. >Leigh

How is it 31% faster? Verite 1000 chip still? Better bios? Better Drivers? Faster clock? Mystery? Hey Charlie, have you tried removing EVERY other board from your computer? I had a time getting my REACTOR to work in my machine. It turned out that I had another board using the same IRQ that the REACTOR board was using from the factory. The reactor board does not come with any DOS utility to view or set the board settings. It TOTALLY delends on Windows'95 to make these changes. It worries me. Do any of the other Verite 1000 based boards come with a utility that can be used to view or set the on board plug and play settings? In my case, once I knew that my Aztech brand sound board was preventing my Intergraph Reactor from operating, I simply changed the IRQ settings on the Aztech board. This allowed the machine to boot so that Windows'95 could do it's thing. -- Best Wishes!!! Robert Huggins Raleigh, NC

It has a faster RAMDAC and slightly faster EDO RAM (about 5ns faster than the Reactor's RAM). These really are not too significant, as it is the optimized drivers that account for most of the speed increase. -- Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

The Reactor has a 135mhz RAMDAC, and the Canopus no longer has their speed posted on their specs page (I seem to remember it was like 170mhz or something). The Total3D uses 40ns RAM, while the Reactor has 45ns or 50ns RAM (I'm not sure which). I haven't heard of renedit, are you talking about renutil? -- Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

But, Eric, this guy (Leigh Anderson) is claiming a 31% speed increase in VQuake, ie: *Verite 3D mode*. That's based on the hardware and the BIOS, not the Windows drivers. I'm skeptical, but he's insistent. ;) Of course, he also says NASCAR2 has anti-aliasing... Pick one or more: Model Rockets (competition-NERCB) / PCs (even Atari!) / Papyrus ICR-ICR2-NCR / Who needs a life when you have multiple non-lives?

He also said it was faster than the Sierra card, but not nearly as large a difference as the Reactor. In non-Win95 related stuff (DOS games) the Reactor and Sierra card are identical in performance (give or take a fps). -- Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/