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1. PCI-E 2. Cached graphics?

Jestunhi Windang
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Join date: 18 May 2006
Posts: 3
05-19-2006 12:52
OK, as the title says really... 2 questions.

1. How supportive is SL of PCI-E gfx cards? AGP acceleration is optional in the options but it claims i have a "slower" PCI graphics card instead of detecting my 2 GF 6600GT Ultra's running in SLI mode.

2. I imagine this has been asked a hundred times... but i didn't see it in a quick look. Is there anyway to save graphics you encounter ingame? Downloading all the graphics / text8ures as needed is good at first (21Mb client) but it certainly gets annoying ;)

Thanks in advance.

PC Spec (In case it helps):

AMD 64 4000
2Gb Kingston Platinum Series PC3300
Western Digital 200Gb HDD 16Mb Cache 7200RPM (I think... memory isn't great)
2 x GeForce 6600 GT Ultra PCI-E's in SLI mode
Striker Wolfe
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Join date: 11 Dec 2004
Posts: 355
05-19-2006 13:14
From: Jestunhi Windang
OK, as the title says really... 2 questions.

1. How supportive is SL of PCI-E gfx cards? AGP acceleration is optional in the options but it claims i have a "slower" PCI graphics card instead of detecting my 2 GF 6600GT Ultra's running in SLI mode.

2. I imagine this has been asked a hundred times... but i didn't see it in a quick look. Is there anyway to save graphics you encounter ingame? Downloading all the graphics / text8ures as needed is good at first (21Mb client) but it certainly gets annoying ;)

Thanks in advance.

PC Spec (In case it helps):

AMD 64 4000
2Gb Kingston Platinum Series PC3300
Western Digital 200Gb HDD 16Mb Cache 7200RPM (I think... memory isn't great)
2 x GeForce 6600 GT Ultra PCI-E's in SLI mode


1) hit or miss on AGP mode, for me it improves several frames per second, some others with PCI-E it takes away, you have to manualy set a profile if you want to run in SLI mode

2) set your cache to a gig under prefrences, but caching in SL really isn't that great at the moment, so dont expect much.
Jestunhi Windang
Registered User
Join date: 18 May 2006
Posts: 3
05-19-2006 13:21
So theres no way to set it to save the textures as apposed to just caching them?
Striker Wolfe
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Join date: 11 Dec 2004
Posts: 355
05-19-2006 13:27
From: Jestunhi Windang
So theres no way to set it to save the textures as apposed to just caching them?

Nope, that would be a nice feature though.
Jestunhi Windang
Registered User
Join date: 18 May 2006
Posts: 3
05-19-2006 13:39
Thanks for the help