Nvidia FX5900 Time Machine demo

"Mark Pearson" <mark_pearson RemoveThis @btinternet.com> wrote in message news:c13eol$8ek$1@titan.btinternet.com...
 > Hi all,
 >
 > I have just purchased and installed my New Aeolus Aopen FX5900 card. The
 > software supplied with the card includes a CD with some of Nvidia's demos
 > on. The demos like 'Dawn' , 'Wolfman' etc all run fine with the exception of
 > 'Time Machine'. When I run this the FPS is something like 0.5.
 >
 > My machine spec is P4 2.4Ghz 768MB FX5900. Can anyone give me a clue as to
 > why this demo which Nvidia say is OK with this card runs so slowly.
 >
 > THX

See the thread "FX5900 BIOS message query..." Scott had the same kind of problem with his FX5900. The Dusk
demo was running below 2 FPS until he upped the graphics aperture size from 64 to 128 or 256MB and got around
20 FPS. It didn't work for the Vulcan demo, though.

Tony.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:40:11 +1300, "The Black Wibble"
<anthony.neville DeleteThis @paradise.org.nz> wrote:

 >"Mark Pearson" <mark_pearson DeleteThis @btinternet.com> wrote in message news:c13eol$8ek$1@titan.btinternet.com...
  >> Hi all,
  >>
  >> I have just purchased and installed my New Aeolus Aopen FX5900 card. The
  >> software supplied with the card includes a CD with some of Nvidia's demos
  >> on. The demos like 'Dawn' , 'Wolfman' etc all run fine with the exception of
  >> 'Time Machine'. When I run this the FPS is something like 0.5.
  >>
  >> My machine spec is P4 2.4Ghz 768MB FX5900. Can anyone give me a clue as to
  >> why this demo which Nvidia say is OK with this card runs so slowly.
  >>
  >> THX
 >
 >See the thread "FX5900 BIOS message query..." Scott had the same kind of problem with his FX5900. The Dusk
 >demo was running below 2 FPS until he upped the graphics aperture size from 64 to 128 or 256MB and got around
 >20 FPS. It didn't work for the Vulcan demo, though.
 >
 >Tony.
 >



I have tried 64 to 256, Mine just works great no matter what.

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Just installed the very same card!
I have similar system specs to you (amd 2600+, 768mb ram) and all my demos
ran well, except the dawn ultra demo which chugged just a tiny bit. I
haven't seen the framerates for the demos, but have a 3dmark2001 score of
12970. Personally I think thats a little low, but the card runs all my games
with max settings no problem at all.
Try a few benchmarks, and have a look at the AA and quality settings. Mine
are set to 4x at the moment and it still flies.

J.

"Mark Pearson" <mark_pearson.TakeThisOut@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:c13eol$8ek$1@titan.btinternet.com...
 > Hi all,
 >
 > I have just purchased and installed my New Aeolus Aopen FX5900 card. The
 > software supplied with the card includes a CD with some of Nvidia's demos
 > on. The demos like 'Dawn' , 'Wolfman' etc all run fine with the exception
of
 > 'Time Machine'. When I run this the FPS is something like 0.5.
 >
 > My machine spec is P4 2.4Ghz 768MB FX5900. Can anyone give me a clue as to
 > why this demo which Nvidia say is OK with this card runs so slowly.
 >
 > THX
 >
 > Mark
 >
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