How far can you push you video card?

[Knuckles]

How far can you push your video card?

I want to see each video card at his full capacity in N64 emulation.

Please write your video card/drivers and plugin you used w/full-screen resolution. Also, put you AA and AS setting (use the MAX) and average speed. with sound
Also, put screenshots on another server in JPG format with a link here(because they are huge).

I have 2 cards so, here's both of them:

Warning to 56K users : can take time to load since shots are in huge resolution

Glide64 v0.42
Diamond Monster Fusion 16MB PCI (Voodoo Banshee)
Raziel64 BansheeXP v5.3 drivers
1792X1344
AA: none
AS: none

Mario64--------------35%
Mario Kart 64--------30%
GoldenEye-----------80% :crazy:
Zelda - Master Quest-60% :bounce:



Jabo D3D7 1.40 (better for me than D3D6 1.5.1)
Riva TNT2 Model64 32MB AGP 4X
detonator 44.67
2048X1536
AA: none
AS: 2X

Mario64
Mario Kart 64
GoldenEye
Zelda - Master Quest

Speeds : approx 20-30%

 

[james.miller]

before i start - what are the percentages next to the games? cpu usage or speed?

well, anyway. first off:

jabo d3d6 1.5.1
Softmodded r9500
Cat 3'4
2048x1536

AA: 6x (maximum)
AF: 16x quality (maximum)

Perfect dark - speed 100%
Goldeneye - speed 100%

 

[Doomulation]

James, what the hell? Are you using dark emutalk or something? It's like impossible to see that green text unless you highlight it.

 

[Knuckles]

James, what the hell? Are you using dark emutalk or something? It's like impossible to see that green text unless you highlight it.

Look under his avatar. Yes he's using Dark emutalk, like me.

...what are the percentages next to the games? cpu usage or speed?

It's the speed for each games.

 

[Doomulation]

That is what I thought. I did not know of a hack that displayed the chosen style a user was using.

 

[fivefeet8]

Here are a few shots. Couldn't link them, so I uploaded them.

EMu: 1964
video: 1280x1024, 8xSFSAA, OGL and Jabos d3d.

Speed in all games is 100%.

 

[The Khan Artist]

Feh. I can't push my video card to the max until the new version of glN64 comes out. Rice's plugin doesn't work too well, TR64 OGL doesn't work too well, Glide64 + eVoodoo is not fun to use, glN64 0.3.2b kinda sorta works, and Jabo's plugin is the best I can do.

I pray that ATi decides to get Super-Sampling in their drivers sometime soon.

 

[nephalim]

This really won't work unless you set a standard. Standard emulator, sound plugin, and major settings (resolution and color depth also!) Otherwise the comparisons are useless. And they are fairly useless, as a video card is a small component of N64 emulation (as far as speed goes,) and any card should be able to use it's full capabilities without slowing down the emulation assuming that you are within resonable resolutions (640x480-800x600.) The real test would be to up the ante by using high resolutions and then play with the settings, IMHO.

 

[Tagrineth]

The Khan Artist: The Mac Radeons support supersampling ^_^ So it's just a matter of time before that filters to the PC drivers.

I run pretty much everything with 4x AA (6x bothers me, it has some pretty lame worst-case angles) and 8x Quality AF on my Radeon 9500 Pro.

 

[Clements]

Here's my effort:

glNintendo64() 0.32b
2XSAI enabled, force bilinear enabled, 2XAF, 4XAA
1280 X 1024 Resolution (Highest monitor allows)
100% Fullspeed (I can't get that with Jabo's plugin!)

Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Jpegs don't do it justice, but there you go. :happy:

Like fivefeet8, I had to attach. Sorry!

 

[The Khan Artist]

The Khan Artist: The Mac Radeons support supersampling ^_^ So it's just a matter of time before that filters to the PC drivers.

Yeah, I saw that article. But the Mac and PC drivers are made by two seperate teams... and Catalyst Maker, head of the PC team, has pretty much said it ain't gonna happen. I hope he changes his mind.

At least we know the hardware is capable of it.