Heard any news on the NV30 chip????

[DilLy]

I was wondering if anyone has heard an update to the release of that technology. I am waiting for it and the P4 3.0 gig to make my next build.

My "elite" system isn't quite good enough to play UT2003 like I want it to.

Specs:
P4 1.7 (willamette 423 socket)
512mb PC800 Rdram
GeForce4 ti 4600

That game is so demanding.

[Alaron]

I havent heard anything about the NV30, NVIDIA seems to be rather hush hush about it. You shouldnt be worried at all about playing UT2003 on that computer. It more then meets the requirements for play. Heres the list from http://www.unrealtournament2003.com/?faq

Operating System: WIN 98/ME/2000/XP
CPU: Pentium III or AMD Athlon 733MHz processor (*Pentium® or AMD 1.0 GHz or greater RECOMMENDED)
Memory: 128 MB RAM (256 MB RAM or greater RECOMMENDED)
Hard Disk Space: 3 GB
CD ROM or CD/DVD ROM: 8X
Audio System: Windows® compatible sound card (*Sound Blaster® Audigy(tm) series sound card RECOMMENDED) (NVIDIA® nForce™ or other motherboards/soundcards containing the Dolby® Digital Interactive Content Encoder required for Dolby Digital audio. Also RECOMMENDED)
Video System: 3D Accelerator card with 16 MB VRAM (*32-128 MB VRAM RECOMMENDED) 16 MB TNT2-class DirectX® version 6 compliant video card. (*NVIDIA GeForce 2/ATI Radeon RECOMMENDED) DirectX® version 8.1 (Included on game disc)
Multiplayer: Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported. *Internet play requires a 33.6 Kbps or faster modem

[catch23]

It'll be revealed at Comdex in November....the whitepaper makes it look promising, especially compared with the whitepaper of the ATi R300 (Radeon 9700)

[wilsontc]

ATi 9700 is out - shame about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[j009h33rM3]

http://www.nv30.com/

[DilLy]

Originally posted by Alaron56 You shouldnt be worried at all about playing UT2003 on that computer. It more then meets the requirements for play.

Actually I wasn't speaking hypothetically. I have the game already. It runs good at highest detail, but I wan't it to run better (plus I need to be ready for Unreal2 and Doom3/Quake4).
On the Infogrames forums, I caught DrSiN posting there (worked on UT2003 Cheat protection, etc.). He said the recommended requirements are rather low anyway and we can blame the games producer for that. Its a tactic to sell more copies. It should have said "2 gig processor, 128mb GPU, 512 mb Ram." That is quoted from him.
Sure enough there are a few levels where if I want to play smoothly, I need to scale down the details significantly.


j009h33rM3: I read those specs. Can you believe they are implementing Glide again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

That's just AWESOME!!


Thanks everyone for your help.

[j009h33rM3]

that according to that guy... the actual specs are still secret.

THe site also seems to be a ploy to get money from nVidia, but that's about all I could find. Hopefully it's fairly accurate.

[DilLy]

mmm, yeah.
I looked again and, you may be right.

[Charger]

DilLy,

Your box should run that game just fine. My specs are lower than yours! I found that setting the sound option to "Software" helped get rid of my choppy play.

I also set the Details to "Normal" (Stills looks good to me)

Turn off Triple Anti-Aliasing.

If you want to set every setting to "highest" then you may need to upgrade. Seems like an expensive option, but it's your machine.

I guess there's no reason for me to run out and get a GeForce 4 card

[DilLy]

The GeForce4 is great. It is not really the bottleneck in this case, I just wanted to know about the NV30 so I could go out and get one when it came out. The problem in this case is more processor speed. Case in point: resolution settings barely affect performance at all, and the only way I can get more than a 5 fps increase is to set ALL settings to thier lowest, and uncheck a few details like player shadows and dynamic lighting.

I think you meant to say Tri-linear filtering, which makes no performance difference to my machine. there is also something called Triple Buffereing which you can turn on in the UT2003.ini file which will increase performance overall. Turning on Antialiasing on my video card doesn't even decrease performance, so this is even more proof that the video card is more than enough.

I do use software 3d sound.

Oh and I notice you have a Northwood P4. I only have the Willamette. I may be a 1.7 and you are a 1.6, but I still think your processor is a better performer. As for the card and the memory, well, you are correct.

[Werewolfdaddy]

northwood is a better performer than the willamette p4's but that should still be enough to run UT2k3

[DilLy]

Originally posted by DilLy My "elite" system isn't quite good enough to play UT2003 like I want it to.

note the "like I want it to" part. I am rather picky when it comes to gaming. I like high fps, highest detail, and a fairly high resolution all the time.

Anyway, is that all the info on NV30 that everyone has? I guess november is the magic month then.

thanks.