Demise: Rise of the Ku'tan: Video Card Questions

Video Card Questions

Chezni
posted 05-02-2001 07:28 PM
I just purchased a new video card. Do you think it will work with demise, and if so, which drivers do you recommend? The card is: Leadtek Winfast Geforce 2 Pro GTS 64MB 5.5ns DDR RAM 4X AGP If you need some more info about the card or my computer, I would like to provide it for you. Thank you!

Decklin
posted 05-02-2001 10:05 PM
I'd just download Directx 8a and go with that as a quick and easy start ... there are others on the board that are very expert on these matters so post back if you have problems ...

Tribulation
posted 05-03-2001 03:34 AM
I recommend using the Nvidia reference drivers, specifically driver version 1080. While these are not certified drivers, they do offer a bigger performance gain then the 6.50 drivers (which are certified). The 1080 drivers, which I hear is the most stable of the bunch, work great for my GeForce 256 and I haven't seen any stability issues when playing Demise or just working on my computer in general. If my card works great, yours should work even better! Tribulation (known as Apocalypc in MP)

Chezni
posted 05-03-2001 05:20 PM
Thank you! I can only download the 650 drivers, I looked at nvidia's site for a while and still can't find the refrence drivers you mentioned, where did you get them?

Tribulation
posted 05-03-2001 10:57 PM
videocarddrivers.com

MadDoc
posted 05-05-2001 10:27 PM
In reference to useing the 1080 Video Drivers. 1. Yes you can increase performance with these drivers. But not enought for the side effects. now for the downside. Twinview is automatically installed (weather you have it or not) and if you overclock your card these drivers have some problems as well. Tested the 650 753 and 1080 drivers useing 3dMark 2000 and there was only a 100 score dif between the 753 and 1080 drivers. This was done on a Celeron 466 (OC 525 75mhz), GeForce MX 2 32mb (Hercules) at 2x runnin 200MHZ Chip and 200MHZ Ram. After installing the 1080 drivers I had MAJOR artifact problems on screen.

Chezni
posted 05-05-2001 11:46 PM
I am not so slick on testing the drivers, the only way I could think of to test these drivers was to go to a room in the dungeon and test the FPS, then switch drivers and go to the same room and test the FPS again. I did this only for two rooms, one crowded and one with only a lot of furnature. Actually, the 650 drivers worked a lot better...the 1080s without antialiasing work about as fast as the 650s with antialiasing. Thanks Tribulation for mentioning both drivers so I could test them. Before this card, whenever I fought monsters I got less than one frame per second, I am not exaggerating. Now under the worst circumstances I get about 8, but I usually get over thirty, and empty rooms get somewhere in the fifties. I found out that the monsters have attack animations! It goes a bit faster without antialiasing, but, I never saw antialiasing on my screen before...except in 2d.... BTW, I have a Pentium2 400Mhz with 196 mb of ram. Thanks everyone!

Maxim
posted 05-29-2001 09:29 AM
Your card is the heat, any new drivers should do you just great, demise isn't a big graphics powerhouse, great dungeon textures and creature skins, but it's not "Halo" with huge expanses of space, it says in the book for the game if you are getting better than 20 you're good to go, I've been playing two versions, one on my laptop (P333 with no 3d accel) and one on my BEAST (1.1 w/gforce2GTS PRO) I'll tell you now, your card, is the bomb baby, the bomb... Are you getting errors in the game though, when I was using a Geforce 2 MX I got alot of texture tearing, and triangle like distortions in the graphics, how does it look through your computer's eyes???