Recent content by Joost E. Boere

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    Diagnostics in driver section fail, what to do

    My Club3D 8500 Pro does look great, but unfortunately some things don't work als planned. The bios is by now flashed to an "improved retail 275". BH6 (BX chipset) mainboard with 512Mb, 256Mb for AGP. No IRQ conflicts, a clean Win 98 system with the latest patches and updates (norton ghost is a...
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    Adding an extra VGA-output on a 8500DV

    Unfortunately the 8500DV is limited to TV-output for the second connector. Still it has two ramdac's, just like the 8500. As far as I know it uses the same external ramdac as the 8500. The drivers are either identical or very similar to those of a 8500. And a 8500 does support VGA-output on it's...
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    Opera and rage3d

    Since this week, the frontpage of rage3d behaves rather strange with Opera as browser. The site keeps refreshing itself while loading images and text. It's like looking at a flashy MTV-clip with sound off. Unfortunately it does lack babes ;) It might be a new add, otherwise the code of the site...
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    DVI-to-VGA quality

    The 8500 has a DVI and standard VGA connector. A DVI-to-VGA convertor is included. Which will provide better quality at high resolutions for CRT's: the internal convertor of the standard VGA connector, or the external convertor for the DVI connector? This is very interesting for potential 8500DV...
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    Widescreen modes

    I really would like a decente 2D and 3D card, and the 8500 does seem to fit the bill. But will it support widescreen videomodes? My monitor is a 16:10 Sony 24" with a recomended resolution of 1900x1200@85Hz. A lot of videocards only support 3:4 resolutions. I did find this, but this is for older...
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