I cannot believe the image quality on this thing.


Well, today is the day. I just got the Removable H.D.D. carrier and receiver from FedEx and yesterday Gary surprised me with an AWE32 along with my 100SB from my international trade. So yesterday I was playing around with my new 100SB, added my shades to it and played some Descent2 (GLIDE) and UNREAL it's working well.

So today is Mercury day, I installed my new SCSI U.W. 3 and cloned the old U.W. 2 over to the new drive. Everything was working well so I installed Partition Magic and split my drive and ran Norton Ghost to back up the C: on to the D: partition.

Now I'm ready to install the AWE32 into the Merc. Man, what a pain, I needed to turn on PNP as the Mercury runs on NT4, Plug N Play is off by default. As soon as I got that turned on new hardware was detected, sound, game port, etc.

I fired up UNREAL and man let me tell you, I have never seen it look so good. I mean to tell you, I was stunned. Just yesterday I was testing the 100SB 4440 @ 800X600 and thought it was looking pretty nice. Some jaggies, but that was to be expected @ 8X6 right? Well what I was staring at today was a full-on Q3D Mercury System running and 512X384 in the "flyby" and NO JAGGIES!! Can you believe it NO JAGGIES @ 512X384.

I can't believe it myself. I have to get VDX over here to see this. Gary, you know what I'm talking about. The AA on this thing is absolutely phenomenal !!

wrote on 09.02.05 at 02:00:48:

................ ............. Well what I was staring at today was a full-on Q3D Mercury System running and 512X384 in the "flyby" and NO JAGGIES!! Can you believe it NO JAGGIES @ 512X384. I can't believe it myself. I have to get VDX over here to see this. Gary, you know what I'm talking about. The AA on this thing is absolutely phenomenal !!

yeps that's right the Mercury set does automaticly FSAA x4 so it's quite well known that you don't see anyjaggies, Gary once found this out in an older topic :) And yes it's very interesting that so many Voodoo2 chips are needed to do FSAA x4 and Motion Blur ::)

If you do the Q3 Motion Blur test you shall see that the Merc also does that, quite something huh :P

Your right it, does also do motion blur but it doesn't quite look as good as the Voodoo5. I am getting a T-buffer error while running it.

I have a couple of games I want to see on it. Mainly, Deuse Ex and Undying, both run on the modified UNREAL engine and are "GLIDE" friendly.

wrote on 09.02.05 at 04:38:58:

Your right it, does also do motion blur but it doesn't quite look as good as the Voodoo5. I am getting a T-buffer error while running it. I have a couple of games I want to see on it. Mainly, Deuse Ex and Undying, both run on the modified UNREAL engine and are "GLIDE" friendly.

Yes, no T-buffer so it doesn't look as good as 5500/6000 with motion blur quake.

Deus Ex works fine on Merc, I have it loaded on mine.