My Loverlly GFX card

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

The only thing you can do then, if you know someone who has the same card, turn on the Video BIOS shadow in the PC BIOS setup (so that his computer won't need to read the video BIOS code directly in the BIOS chip), and then hotswap the two BIOS ROMs, flashing the fucked one on the shadowed PC. Barbaric, but works

LOL, bit of a shame then that mine uses the BIOS before even the CMOS kicks into action, but ill give it a go

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nope didnt work

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

hmmm... odd. Are you sure you enabled both caching AND shadowing for your video BIOS ?

Normally if the BIOS is duplicated into the system RAM or the video RAM there should be no reason why the card would read bytes from the chip.

Or maybe this card does "sanity checks" which prevent it to work when you unplug a chip...

Hmmm I can have a look around for an engineering BIOS (Welcome to OC heaven) , but I need to know the cards name... FULL NAME.
Btw, I run a Creative GeForce4 Ti 4600, Overclocked and modded to Quadro4 (Hey, I am a hardware weirdo so I do what I can to have fun with it.)
Now, if I had an XP 1800, I would been in the extreme division.

Let me know the name of the card, and we could get it fixed for ya, FX's isn't the best in the backyard, ATi just raced past them, and is keeping the lead.

I use a GeForce FX 5200 by BFG Tech. I picked it up when I needed a card with more memory, however, I got what I payed for when I handed the cashier 100 USD.

Sometimes I feel like my videocard is the scrawny kid on the playground who gets beat up often.

I'll see what I can find around that card...
Not sure if I can get a BIOS for an FX, I will check, not many use them.

hehe, just got my hardware supplier to give me a new card, rahter than me having to send it to germany to get fixed, lol what he didnt know was i only had an FX5400 (yes it really was a 5400, not a 5200, or a 5600)

and he gave me a 5900 ULTRA, lol, the leaf blower kind, lol but with the power of the fans on my system, you cant even tell its on,

People say the best card in the FX series is the 5900 Ultra, however, I don't think that is a fair argument as the card with the highest speed processor would perform the best, because who really needs the best?

I know I've never needed more than 60 FPS in any of my games, so why would I spend more money to go above that?

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

Actually the only relevant criteria are the number of polygons the card can handle each second, and the availability of such or such special effect directly in the hardware, like fogs, texture mappings and filtering functions. The human eye samples its world 15 times a second ; you could eventually play a game at 20 fps and not notice any lag, or very little.

I remember when I was developing my bots with my old computer (500 MHz), most of the times CS was running at 15-20 fps and it was still playable.

lol, the lowest fps ive ever played at was 1, and that wasnt with this card it was with a GeForce 1 + my gfx settings.

everything i do must look the best no matter what card im on. at one point i had the fps so low you couldnt tell what you were doing at all.