Good News (on off topic)

[Atrocities]

Well, off topic news is that my new system is now working, and I am using it to post this message. The FIC AD11 motherboard I had ran very very hot, and burned up its heat sink. I later discovered that this is a common promblem with FIC Boards. I now have a MSI KT266 Raid MB, however, it is only configured to run 200 FSB right now as I have not been able to find the jumper to allow the DDR 266 memory to run at full speed. (133 x 2)

On Topic, I just finished installing SEIV onto my new system, and updating to the latest patch. It took me a while to get all my files configured the way I wanted them, and a lot of trouble shooting. Took me a bit to remember to changed the Baseship info in the Vehical Size Text from Battlestation to BS (For Base Ship). Then I had to get all the new components working. Sorry, Q, could not get your Assimulation tech to work correctly. Kept curpting my files, and preventing me from loading the game. I did however get a lot of the other tech you made for the borg to work. Same with GE's stuff. Took me a while to get it all working, but its working fine now.

I did notice that two of my races, 8472 and the Breen had some problems with Fleet Stratigies. I would get an error everytime their turn processed. I fixed this by copying the Fleet Stratigies from another race into their directories, and then renaming them.

All in all, the game is up and running smoothly thus far. I must admit that it seems to run a whole lot better on this system than it did on my P2 400.

I am at turn 101, with 11 Races, and 5 neuturals, and my average turn time is less than 45 seconds thus far.

My system specs are (an I am not bragging, just providing useful info):

AMD 1.4 Ghz CPU
512 DDR PC2100 DDR Ram
30 Gig 7200 RPM Western Digital HD
MSI KT266 Raid Motherboard
Sound BLaster Live
Hercules 3d Prophet GeForce 3 64 Meg DDR mem Video Card. (Oh ya, this baby is sweet)

The rest is irrelivant as most of it is reused except for the 300 watt case which is bright blue. (Quite handsome actually. )

This is it for me. I can ill aford a new system for the next 5 years, and by god this one had better hold up.

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"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard
New Age Ship Yards

[This message has been edited by Atrocities (edited 29 June 2001).]

[Noble713]

How much for the GeForce 3? I could use one of those, for games at the very least (my crappy TNT 1 isn't cutting it). Do you know if it matters for the rendering times of 3d programs (I use 3D Studio Max R4)?

[Atrocities]

I dont't know if it will help in graphics editting or not. I know that it makes Tribes 2 screem. (Any one who cares to know, Tribes 2 is an awsome looking game. Can't wait for the Shifter mods.)

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"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard
New Age Ship Yards

[Baron Munchausen]

Actual rendering cannot be assisted by the graphics card. By definition, an accelerated graphics card is taking some instructions and doing the rendering itself to relieve some of the work from the CPU, while a rendering program is supposed to be figuring out how to produce a graphical image -- using instructions that you give it -- and then let you save the data. How does it get the finished graphic back from the card if it sends the data out to be rendered remotely? Maybe they will add this in one day since graphics cards are getting so powerful, but I am not aware of any graphics card now that renders an image and returns the binary data for a program to use.

This does not mean that a good graphics card cannot help with a graphical design program, of course. Displaying the created graphics will still be faster. But for now there's no speedup in the actual rendering.

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 30 June 2001).]

[zen.]

As a 3D dabbler, I concur. At least, not the cards you can buy down at Best Buy. Actual 3D rendering can only be assisted by CPU and RAM. If you want a graphics card to help you out, you'll have to buy one of the thousand-dollar 3D cards that they tend to use in SGI workstations and such, like 3Dlabs' (http://www.3dlabs.com/) Oxygen cards. I hear they're not very good for your standard 3D gaming, though...but I'm out of date. Anyone have direct experience with the professional cards?

Oh, and as an interesting side note, the Final Fantasy movie coming out soon has twice the resolution of HDTV, and each FRAME is 10MB in size. Yes, that means each SECOND of movie screen time takes up 240MB.

zen

[Spoo]

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Yes, that means each SECOND of movie screen time takes up 240MB.

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Only a tad wasteful...

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Assume you have a 1kg squirrel
E=mc^2
E=1kg(3x10^8m/s)^2=9x10^16J
which, if I'm not mistaken, is equivilent to roughly a 50 megaton nuclear bomb.
Fear the squirrel.