Re: K8V-MX drivers ?
- From: Shadow <sh@dow>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:16:22 -0200
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:08:59 GMT, nospam@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul) wrote:
>In article <a4hut1dkbcardkfubuq0srh7hmait95r82@xxxxxxx>, Shadow <sh@dow> wrote:
>
>> Upgraded my TX97-E (still perfect) to this piece of apparent sh*&^&*t.
>> Sound does not work with most of my games, video gives me
>> blank windows if power down happens.
>> Diablo 2 is slower than with an old duron board I had (video
>> issue ?). Heroes of Might and Magic 4 ditto.
>> Quake 3 works fine ? Is that a lead ?
>> Have latest ASUS drivers and bios. Sempron 2600 cpu.
>> Win98SE
>> Any ideas ?
>>
>> PS ... is my voodoo 3 pci 16MB inherently faster than the
>> onboard SIS chipset ?
>
>The fastest Durons were the Model 8 ones, at 1400, 1600, and
>1800MHz.
> The Sempron 2600+ runs at 1600MHz and has pretty close
>to the same amount of cache. The Sempron 2600+ will have
>superior memory bandwidth. But if you put your mind to it,
>a badly written application might perform as badly on both
>platforms. (Try a copy of SuperPI or one of the other CPU
>benchmarks, if you really want to see that the new platform
>is faster.)
The new system is much faster. Its games that are slower. Or
totally unplayable, due to no sound.
OpenOffice and others load much faster. No doubt at all.
>
>For graphics, remember that games support multiple render
>paths. If you have support in hardware for shaders, perhaps
>the shaders are being used. If you had a video card with
>simpler hardware, some games would simply refuse to run,
>while others might render all effects with the CPU. It is
>pretty hard to draw conclusions about system performance
>due to stuff like that, as you don't know what render path
>and level of sophistication is being used. Maybe the visual
>appearance of the slow games is better ?
>
>You cannot really expect to game with built-in graphics:
>
> Integrated UniChrome Pro IGP
> - Dual pixel pipelines
> - 128-bit 2D/3D engine
> - 200MHz engine clock speed
> - 16-64MB shared memory <--- slow texture memory
OK, so I bought the wrong motherboard. But even so, the sound
drivers/hardware does not pass the DXDiag test. The one supplied with
windows. Fresh windows 98SE install, latest drivers from site.
(Resultado do teste do DirectSound: Falha na etapa 19 (Software
verificado pelo usuário): HRESULT = 0x00000000 (código de erro))
And I thought I might be able to play old favorites, from 6-8
years back, when memory was not the fastest, most video was PCI and
32MB video ram was tops.
The only other card I have on the MB is a USR 56K PCI modem,
there appear to be no conflicts.
I think my question was: is the MB crappy, or is there hope
that new video/sound drivers might put it right ? If so, where can I
get such (beta?) drivers ?
TIA
PS Thanks for the links. Pity I did not see them before.
Can u recommend a cheap AGP 1.5v video card ? with 128-256Mb
memory ? Something as compatible as my old voodoo was in its time ?
Ditto for sound card ?
.
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