From: Martin Espinoza To: ml@qoole.com Reply-To: ml@qoole.com Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 17:17:48 +0000 Subject: Re: FireGL Pro 1000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------6B2F068BD1BD9966613C264A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit jcaesar@mediaone.net wrote: > As to Voodoo, get it if you're playin' games. The problem is Voodoo isn't > as good with in window stuff (save for the Rush). More to the point, it will not in and of itself do anything in a window. You have to fake it... > Still for anything that > requires a Full OGL hardware accelerated card, get the FireGL1000Pro (not > the 1000--which I don't think is still available). Probably right. It's also worth noting that it costs barely more than the Millenium II and has faster 2d than the Mil II. > As for getting it to work with Q2, leave the control panel settings at > default, and set your resolution and color depth. In Q2, just choose > default OpenGL for the mode. If you are getting software mode back, then > you have one of two problems. For the resolution chosen, your buffers take > too much video RAM (why I say leave control panel settings at default). Or, > your BIOS/drivers are either improperly installed or need to be updated. Yep. I play at 512x384 and don't have the memory problem. > (perhaps you need to reinstall quake2 as well). Probably not; It's almost always a driver issue. > I also recommend the SGI OpenGl drivers, as I have found them to be faster > than Microsoft's. Say, where the heck do I get these? ---------------------- mespinoz@tivoli.com ------------------------- Nothing is true; Everything is permitted. --Hassan I Sabbah --------------6B2F068BD1BD9966613C264A Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Martin Espinoza Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Martin Espinoza n: Espinoza;Martin org: Tivoli Systems email;internet: mespinoz@tivoli.com title: Engineer x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: TRUE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------6B2F068BD1BD9966613C264A--