Anyone tried the Nvidia 7800 GTX yet
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Kathmandu Gilman
Fearful Symmetry Baby!
Join date: 21 May 2004
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06-25-2005 11:50
I know they are just released but someone in SL must have gotten one. Any reports?
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Speedfreak Valentino
Not a druggie
Join date: 25 Feb 2004
Posts: 46
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07-26-2005 13:55
Yes, I just got my new system up and running this last week.
Koolance PC3-725BK
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
Athlon XP 4400+
BFG Geforce 7800 GTX OC
1 GB (2x512) OZZ Platinum PC3200 dual channel
Western Digital 74GB 10,000rpm Raptor
Maxtor Diamondmax 10 300GB 7200rpm 16MB cache
I am having a problem where when I turn my avatar in a circle, the camera will snap back to the starting position before I make a complete circle. When I am walking straight, and I tap the left or right arrow key it will make my avatar and camera turn completely around and face the opposite direction. This problem doesn't happen right away in game. Seems to happen after I have been sitting. It also does it with an alt, but not on my old computer at all. I had installed the 77.72 drivers initially, but then last night tried the 77.76 BETA drivers. It is still having that problem.
On a high note.. WOW. It sure flys now! lol. I used to get sometimes down to 10FPS on my old Athlon 2400XP/RAdeon 9600 computer, now I have never seen below 30, and that's with local lighting and my draw distance jacked up higher then before.
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Kathmandu Gilman
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Join date: 21 May 2004
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07-26-2005 14:54
I get the same thing with my 4400+ and 6800 Ultra. I think the cards are too fast for the game and are causing errors, especially when looking at voids or open water.
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Nathan Stewart
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Join date: 2 Feb 2005
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07-26-2005 16:45
Im running a 6800 GT, but it can run slightly faster than an ultra, and dont get the problems mentioned, what i did notice is that your both using the new 4400+ processor, im on a single core 3500+ 64bit
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Kathmandu Gilman
Fearful Symmetry Baby!
Join date: 21 May 2004
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07-26-2005 18:17
That is a good point, I wish I could switch out the cards but my6600 is AGP and my 6800 is PCI-e. Could it be the AGP vs PCI-e maybe? I can't see that the processor is the culpret but who knows? I have the 4400+ X2 BTW My system: AMD64 4400+ X2 (duel core) 6800 Ultra w/ 512 video ram 2 gig Corsair TWINX memory ASUS A8n-SLI Premium And yes, she doth fly 
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Nathan Stewart
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Join date: 2 Feb 2005
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07-26-2005 19:34
Possibly a chipset driver thing, mine was on 6800gt agp clocked at 425mhz, 1310mem which is faster than the ultra runs at standard.
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Kathmandu Gilman
Fearful Symmetry Baby!
Join date: 21 May 2004
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07-26-2005 19:43
Ahh, AGP...hmmmm. My OC 6600GT running near 6800 speeds didn't experience this either.
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Taliesin Psaltery
anais reborn
Join date: 5 Jul 2004
Posts: 7
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08-03-2005 00:02
Does anyone with a PCIe-only video configuration see it reported as a PCI card whenever you start the SL client?
My ASUS SLI Premium has two PCIe 6800 Ultras, no friggin PCI graphics cards, yet the "SL detects a PCI graphics card, you won't get full enjoyment," message appears every time I launch SL, whether the machine is in SLI mode or not.
Bah!
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Catherine Omega
Geometry Ninja
Join date: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 2,053
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08-03-2005 00:31
From: Taliesin Psaltery My ASUS SLI Premium has two PCIe 6800 Ultras, no friggin PCI graphics cards, yet the "SL detects a PCI graphics card, you won't get full enjoyment," message appears every time I launch SL, whether the machine is in SLI mode or not. It looks for an AGP card, and doesn't find one. PCIe is certainly not going to hinder your performance, but SL just doesn't make an attempt to find it, that's all. The detection code could use some work, sure, but it doesn't mean anything. |