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Bundles,
Installation and Drivers
Leadtek
packs in a few goodies with the WinFast GeForce256. They include
several useful tools and utilities including their own DVD Software
Player called "DVD Magic". Here's the full list....
- MPEG-2
(DVD) Player (WinDVD)
- Colorific®
(for fine-tuning color calibration)
- 3Deep?
(for accurate adjustment of color matching between monitor and
pritner)
- WEB
3D from Asymetrix
- WIRL
from Platinum
- VRCreator
from Platinum
- 3D/FX
from Asymetrix
- RealiMation
STE (Demo) from Datapath
- Microsoft
Internet Explorer
- Digital
Video Producer from Asymetrix
- VDOLive
Video Player from VDOnet
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We
would have liked to have seen the inclusion of a game or two that
demonstrates Hardware T&L in action. On the other hand, Leadtek
does an excellent job of customizing drivers for NVidia based
products.
Here are a couple of shots showing the drivers and control panels in
Win98SE. |
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Click
images for a larger view.
See that little
button called "Speed Runner"? You guessed it, built in
overclocking folks!
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the way, the card installed with no effort on a standard Intel BX
chipset based board. We also tried installing the WinFast GeForce256
on both an Athlon based board, MSI's MS6167 and a VIA PC133 based
board, the Soyo SY-6VBA+. For some reason, we were not able to
complete benchmarks on either of these two motherboards. The
applications continually locked up during testing. I am not sure why
these problems occurred but they precluded us from testing the
product on anything but an Intel based motherboard. I have heard
rumors that NVidia has a possible issue with the AGP Mini-Port
driver for the GeForce but I can't substantiate that. In any event,
I can't see this being a long term issue. If the issue is real,
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Eye
Candy
For
this Online Reviewer/Editor, "Eye Candy" is usually of the
female persuasion. However, this is a family show so we'll just have
to settle for some in-game shots! ;-) With each new Graphics
Accelerator release we always like to feature game screen-shots.
After all, that is why you would buy one of these products. On with
the show then. These
are all JPEG images but quality was set to 100% so that there was
very little compression and loss. They are also all 32bit color in
game shots. Click all images for a larger view.
Quake
3 Arena
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And of course my
new favorite, soon to be released, game of all time, Unreal
Tournament! Here's a side note. There were a lot of bugs in the
first release of Unreal. It was cutting edge technology for its time
but the problems were just too numerous to stand, so I just put it
down. Unreal Tournament is what the original Unreal should have
been. This game rocks! Id Software, like Intel with the AMD Athlon,
should be nervous. :-)
Unreal
Tournament
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Heya
dude, are those "Maui Jim" shades you are wearing there?
Mind if I blow 'em off your face?!
:-) |
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quality for the GeForce is spectacular. 2D desktop image quality
with the WinFast GeForce256 was also excellent. I can't wait to see
what the new T&L and Cube Environment Mapping enhancements will
add! |
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I know what you're thinking.... How much ya bench?! Plenty! |
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WinFast
GeForce256 Benchmarks this way!
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