Author Archives: Loogie

Updates

Posted on September 9, 2001 by Loogie
First of all, I found out where Snake has been: he was @ an Order of the Arrow thing for scouts this weekend. He got back this afternoon, but a few hours later commenced w/ formatting his NEW HARD DRIVE. He should be back at the latest tomorrow night.

Secondly, I painted the front panel of my case black. Using all sorts of stencils and tools- from scissors to chewing gum- I got labels and green buttons on there too. ~gheTtO MOD column

Finally, my new GeForce2…. it looks pretty good, but it’s a little disappointing. Literally no editing software comes w/ it, and I still get 43 Xs in the SiSoft Video System Info benchmark, which is pretty bad. It claims my card has no curve drawing abilities.

But on the good side, Black & White looks amazing & runs smoothly, my old issues w/ smoke grens and outdoor areas in CS are solved, and it comes w/ a 16-24-bit z-buffer and (w/ the right software) adjustable antialiasing (FSAA). Q3 and UT also run great. Alt-tabbing works even better than w/ my Voodoo3, but there is some weird transfer problem when loading games. Another weird thing: this can only go up to 1280×1024 (which is the max res on my monitor, so it’s ok)… but even my Voodoo could go up to 2048, way higher than that. And in 1280×1024, I still get a very flickery, 60hz on the monitor. 120hz is only in 640×480.

MotherBoard Monitor has been reading my NorthBridge (where the AGP slot is) @ 86-91º, which is about 10º higher than usual… so I ordered a Blue Orb fan for it right away. I couldn’t afford memory heatsinks, but oh well. So, that’s it for now….. (I just realized I said way too much). ~GeForce2 column

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Boom!!!

Posted on September 7, 2001 by Loogie

I said a couple of hours?? Well it’s only been a half-hour, and I got it done! This was incredibly easy to do, and all the drivers picked up w/out a hitch. nVIDIA GeForce2 GTS is in! Boom!

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Bout

Posted on September 7, 2001 by Loogie

Ok…. Snake has asked me to put up news on a few things…. he is “gone”, I dunno where to, I guess for the weekend. Also, he has started working on a new Tweak Guide column. So far he’s done the memory tweaks for our motherboards, the Via VT6X4. U can see it here. Finally, I just went through and got screenshots from the SL Half-Life demo in 3 reses (resolutions), and Q3A in 4 reses. I also got FPS and a screen from B&W; I compiled all this into a rough table that I’ll put our my upcoming new-card column (that makes about 4 columns in the making). And now… I’m bout to pop the new VisionTek GeForce2 in. I’m a little disappointed w/ it: the fan is cheap, and there’s no driver CD. But I got the newest nVIDIA 12.41 official drivers and put them in a temp folder. So, I hope it goes well.. if so, I’ll put another entry up in a couple hours about how the installation went. BBL

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WadCard2, and Other Things

Posted on September 1, 2001 by Loogie

By Tuesday, I should have a brand new VisionTek GeForce2 GTS 32MB DDR video card. Sure, it’s not that great a manufacturer, but it’s all I could afford from eBay at this time. This will be the 2nd video card the Wad PC has had, and I may well write a column about it (or wait until Snake gets a new one and write a collaborative column). I will probably sell my Voodoo3, but chances are that won’t get much money (would u like it? E-Mail me).

So, what else?

  • I bought Black & White this week! It is totally badass, but it runs a little slow on my Voodoo.

  • So far I have painted one side panel of my PC dark green, and a floppy faceplate (bezel) black. It looks striped now, but I might recoat it all when I paint the rest, w/ a better sander. I also redid the logo on my PC, and removed a CDROM bezel for air. All that might become a gHEtTO column post soon.

  • I rearranged my desk setup and put my case on my desk (due to a suggestion from Snake)! Yep, it used to be on the floor, now it’s rested saefly on the right side of my desk, and it’s much less cluttered now. If I can, I’ll take a couple pics of it for the site once I get a camera w/ film.

Since I’m already doing news, I’ll report for some other ppl: Gr-Dragon is “poor #10” in Hyperiums…. Snake‘s playin Inf and Rogue Spear demo….
Gand’s in Governor’s School…. all of us go back to normal school Tuesday… i dunno about Que.

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MOD Database Update

Posted on September 1, 2001 by Loogie

Today (after some extreme BS disputes w/Snake and his power) I updated the MOD Database a tad. Now any songs w/ (MR) in the songname get listed in the new Mick Rippon song search. I also modified some songs to be in the new Trax in Space search. I wouldn’t normally make a post out of something as insignificant as this, but I’m behind on updates for this… a LOT has been done since the original version. Snake also reviewed a few songs today. U can see the DB by clicking on “MODs” on the left nav frame (duh).

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POD Bot URL

Posted on August 25, 2001 by Loogie

Hey… Snake sucks, so he didn’t include a URL to get the POD Bot in his news entry below. So here’s the address to the main page:

http://www.nuclearbox.com/podbot/

Browse around at the FAQs, screens and such, and then download it…. less than 2MB.

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