🚀 go-pugleaf

Inglo wrote:
> On 8/8/2004 2:21 PM pop brightened our day with:
>
>> "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:f4sRc.6401$va2.1120@fe1.texas.rr.com...
>>
>>
>>> Sorry to hear about the hardware dying.  At least, it's fixable!  Am
>>> glad you got it to run on the spare puter.  I'm afraid my spare is
>>> the old P3-800 with a Radeon 7000 in it.  I won't be running it on
>>> THAT box, I'm sure :)
>>> McG.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> That sounds like my wife's system - I'll probably replace my busted
>> winXP system with a new one and give the misses my win98 system.
>>
>>
> My spare is in pieces.  But no worries, main rig's as stable as place
> you keep horses.
>
> Doom 3's rockin' on mine at high quality 1024x768, I'm luckily not
> having any problems like a lot of 9800 people.
> McG, is the 9800 Pro still texture flickering, is Doom 3 running OK
> for you?
>
> ...I like having you old guys around in here, makes me feel like a
> kid.
>
> --
> The Brain From Planet Arous (1958):
> "Bad alien Gor takes over scientist Steve's brain; good alien Vol
> takes over Steve's dog's brain."
>
> Steve [Inglo]

hah!  Old guys eh?  :)  Yeah.

My son really REALLY wanted SO badly to try out the 9800 Pro...I let
him.  I've got the FX5900 in now.  Oddly enough, I am still getting the
exact same texture flickering in Q3A, and now in Doom3 also.  Games that
are NOT flickering:  Half-Life, Morrowind, UT2004, Quake2.  This is with
both/either card.  Now the ones that have flicker with both/either are
Q3A/TA, Far Cry, Halo.
I haven't tried Doom3 with the 9800 Pro.  Son won't part with it without
a fight now :)  He's a former Marine and I'm getting kinda old for that
horsin around stuff ;)
The system he's running the 9800 Pro on with NO problems whatsoever:
Gigabyte mobo, don't remember the model, SiS chipset tho, AMD Athlon
3200+, 512 megs PC3200 at DDR400 (Micron)(single channel mobo).  Built
in sound, XP Pro.  He's running Halo in 1280x1024 no probs at all.  Far
Cry, no probs.
So, my thinking is that since some games are doing fine but some are
not, and it's the same ones with both vid cards...hardware is ok, Opsys
needs reinstalling.  AND, the 160 gig drive needs to be formatted to one
NTFS partition, not 1 Fat32 partition.  I've gone through 3 mobos, 3 vid
cards, 2 sound cards since installing the 160g and XP Pro fresh and
clean.  No reinstalls since.  Overdue?
McG.