Viet cong performance issues, help required please. FX5900..

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (More info?)

Viet cong is (as far as im told) an ati oriented game meaning that its
performance is much better on ati cards. I own an MSI geforce fx5900 ultra
256mb, and even this doesn't push the game like it should. In heavy fight
scenes i sometimes get less than 30fps, which for such an old game is very
poor. I have just downloaded the StarStorm nvidia drivers from
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisp [...] forumid=47
and found little improvement, even with all the eye-candy settings turned
off. But i have noticed some interesting extra settings in the Direct3D
page with the StarStorm drivers under the following heading:

Performance analysis
==============
[ ] NULL fixed function - forces the Nvidia GPU to use a NULL pixel shader
for fixed-function pixels. This results in the frame rate increasing for
applications that are pixel-processing bound.
[ ] NULL PS 1.x - forces the Nvidia GPU to use a NULL shader for PS 1.x
shaders. This results in the frame rate increasing for applications that
are PS 1.x shader-bound.
[ ] NULL PS 2.x - forces the Nvidia GPU to use a NULL shader for PS 1.x
shaders. This results in the frame rate increasing for applications that
are PS 2.x shader-bound.

If anyone can explain to me exactly what this means, and maybe tell me if
Viet Cong is in any of these catagories that would be much appreciated. I
tried to look for viet cong support, but found the link on their home page
to be dead.

Thanks,

Mark

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (More info?)

I just went through the reviews for a month and learn all I need to know
about the differences between ati and nvidia . I now have what I need to
pick the right card . Nvidia is using ps 1.4 It going to need alot fixes
in drivers if they ever get it to work theres alot bugs in the hardware and
the drivers . I been using a Nvidia ti 4600 now I am jumping to 9800 pro
because of the card can do everything better than nvidia has for the 5900
I had the opportunity to buy that card for 150 and the 155 for the
ati and came at a great time I went ati because there running better
floating points and there using better algithrithoms.
"mimayin" <mimayin@gamebox.net> wrote in message
news:c9fld9$7re$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Viet cong is (as far as im told) an ati oriented game meaning that its
> performance is much better on ati cards. I own an MSI geforce fx5900
ultra
> 256mb, and even this doesn't push the game like it should. In heavy fight
> scenes i sometimes get less than 30fps, which for such an old game is very
> poor. I have just downloaded the StarStorm nvidia drivers from
>
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisp [...] 21db2ef771
&forumid=47
> and found little improvement, even with all the eye-candy settings turned
> off. But i have noticed some interesting extra settings in the Direct3D
> page with the StarStorm drivers under the following heading:
>
> Performance analysis
> ==============
> [ ] NULL fixed function - forces the Nvidia GPU to use a NULL pixel
shader
> for fixed-function pixels. This results in the frame rate increasing for
> applications that are pixel-processing bound.
> [ ] NULL PS 1.x - forces the Nvidia GPU to use a NULL shader for PS 1.x
> shaders. This results in the frame rate increasing for applications that
> are PS 1.x shader-bound.
> [ ] NULL PS 2.x - forces the Nvidia GPU to use a NULL shader for PS 1.x
> shaders. This results in the frame rate increasing for applications that
> are PS 2.x shader-bound.
>
> If anyone can explain to me exactly what this means, and maybe tell me if
> Viet Cong is in any of these catagories that would be much appreciated. I
> tried to look for viet cong support, but found the link on their home page
> to be dead.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>