Author Topic: wtf is up with my vid card? anyone have an NVIDIA GeForce2?  (Read 3314 times)

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well im playin on my dads comp till i get mine fixed, but for some reason, in tribes its like software mode... it sucks, why doesnt it look good? anyone else have this problem before? thanks!
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« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2003 12:09 pm CDT »
Um... Switch Tribes to OpenGL?

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« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2003 12:14 pm CDT »
switch to glide

open gl takes too much memory
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« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2003 12:20 pm CDT »
how do i switch to glide? it wont even let me select it in the list in the video settings :(, and if i switch to opengl, it lags like a unsavory woman
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« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2003 12:28 pm CDT »
ummm i dunno if that one has glide

check the website for a vid driver update duh
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« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2003 12:31 pm CDT »
No you fool, only the 3dfx cards support Glide, anything else doesn't.  Run in opengl, if that doesn't work then update the drivers.
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« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2003 02:01 pm CDT »
Also, most of the "newer cards" arent supported by Tribes until it is updated to the newest version.
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« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2003 04:30 pm CDT »
Remote, you see the list that highlights when you select OpenGL?  The one that says "setup openGL for:"

Well, switch it to each one of those until you find the one that runs the fastest--thats a problem that a lot of people get when they first get a new card.
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« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2003 04:49 pm CDT »
Generic works best for me.
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« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2003 06:15 pm CDT »
no, if u dont know what ur talkin about, please stop posting, i found the reason, and.. this isnt a "new card", its a geforce 2... why in the hell would that be new, the reason i found out because tribes uses glide, and on this old nvidia, it doesnt support it, but thats ok, next week ill have my comp fixed, and back with my radeon
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« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2003 06:34 pm CDT »
Remote.. You don't know what you're talking about.

Tribes engine was built on a 3DFX game engine base..

It was designed for The Voodo series, because at the time, it was the best out.

GF and Raedon are OpenGL / Direct3D (If lack of OpenGL) cards.

For a GF 2, you need to set it on OpenGL TNT 2 settings to get best performance.


Vorter, you use Generic because Newer cards only support generic. Dynamix noticed the GF series, and made an update for OpenGL.

Tribes will allways look bad in OpenGL mode because the engine was built for Glide.

By bad I mean choppy textures, no rain, textures showing up where they shouldn't.
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« Reply #11 on: June 17, 2003 07:18 pm CDT »
ok, well then tell nvidia that they dont know what they are talking about, because that is what they told me, and all this card will accept is generic
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« Reply #12 on: June 17, 2003 07:20 pm CDT »
You are talking to techs who look off a book..

About a game that is 6 years old..

With a poorly made game engine..

Only people who know the engine will know what they are talking about.
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« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2003 07:39 pm CDT »
Vort, that sig is way too wide.
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« Reply #14 on: June 17, 2003 08:46 pm CDT »
I meant that tribes recognizes any card after the TNT2 era as a "new card".
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