What is my video card missing?

[Ocean]

what is my video card (9600 pro) missing to play this simplistic screen saver at a decent frame rate. ive tried the screen saver on everything from intel interated graphics to 9800 pro. and it wont work at a playable frame rate.

though a voodoo 5 5500 plays it fine.

drivers are correctly installed, could it be a patch on windows 2000? didnt work on xp either.

http://webpages.charter.net/ocean/plasma.zip

 

[TheGamerZ]

How old is it? If it ran on a Voodoo card fine, that would lead me to believe that it's written to use Glide acceleration, thus making all other non-Voodoo chips run it in software mode, thus really slow.

 

[Ocean]

my card played it perfect when i first got my machine. then i updated drivers and it quit. ive since reinstalled windows and still kaput.

i even reinstalled windows another time just to fix it cause i though i broke my OS permanenlty cause no driver update would fix it.

 

[coolie_d]

on a P3-1GHz machine, did you set the thread priority higher? Running any intensive background processes? Check your OpenGL settings in CCC..... as I said, runs fine on a 9600np OC'd to 475core/250mem

 

[pigpen]

This is from the readme file:

"This screen saver is written for Windows. It uses OpenGL and requires
OpenGL hardware acceleration for optimum performance. If you don't have
it, you'll see a pitifully slow framerate."

 

[demons9872]

i ran it @ 30fps i think thats its max frame rates system in sig

 

[CleanSlate]

Not working on windows XP and only working well on a v5 makes it obvious that it is glide only. Quite obvious indeed.

 

[pigpen]

Not working on windows XP and only working well on a v5 makes it obvious that it is glide only. Quite obvious indeed.

nope. works quite well on windowsXP.

 

[CleanSlate]

didnt work on xp either.

....

 

[Himmler]

works fine for me

 

[Borgschulze]

works fine for me

I would like to join the, it works fine bandwagon.

 

[Rooster]

mhm, pretty colors. Very nice.

 

[CleanSlate]

This screen saver is written for Windows. It uses OpenGL and requires
OpenGL hardware acceleration for optimum performance. If you don't have
it, you'll see a pitifully slow framerate.

Since this screen saver is shareware, I ask for $5 if you decide to keep
it. Payment information is available at http://www.reallyslick.com

It's only shareware, so there is no support available for this saver,
but feel free to send comments and suggestions to me (Terry) at
mogumbo@fcmail.com


INSTRUCTIONS: Just extract the .scr file from this .zip file using your
favorite zip program. Place the .scr file in your Windows\system
directory (Win95/98) or Winnt\system32 directory (WinNT/Win2K). Then open
your display properties window and you can activate this saver.

GG, quote from the help file

 

[coolie_d]

def. is locked at 30fps, since Demons9872s P4 is alot more machine than this puny P3 and I got what appeared to be a solid 30.....

Edit: XP Pro SP2

 

[Justin_Diduch]

i am getting 30fps on my work machine (2500+ and a Ti4400)
winxp too

 

[Gorankar]

Works fine on a 9800pro, xp sp2, and xp3000+..

 

[Ocean]

all the screen svaers are nice


i wish i could figure out why they wont run on my system right.

asus A7N8X deluxe 512 ram barton 3200

every game runs right, winamp's milkdrop runs perfect. driver updates dont fix it, setting all my graphics options in drivers to min wont fix it. im gonna try resolution and bit depth changes now.


nope didnt work, im going to use sisoft sandra to check for any abnoralities in my opengl

 

[CleanSlate]

worked fine on xp for me too

 

[soulsaver_8229]

9600 pro sapphire
windows xp
5.1 or 5.5 catalyst drivers forget which (just did it this morning)
works like a charm and thats a leet screensaver thanks

soulsaver_8229

 

[Ocean]

woohoo, i got it fixed. installed cats from september of 2003

 

[sirholio]

Not working on windows XP and only working well on a v5 makes it obvious that it is glide only. Quite obvious indeed.

That's rich.


Thanks for the new screensaver! works Great at work here. PIII 933 w/ original Geforce