Trident Graphic cards 1.) = sucks!!! 2.) = rocks(???)

[Bruce Slater]

Damn these sucking Trident cards. Because to heal my brain damage
we had to buy a machine, which shall kinda decrease some of my brain
waves and increase other brain waves - but it does only support Trident
graphic cards - so I had get my Voodoo5 out and put that f**king card into
my mainboard (It was a "Trident Blade 3D 8MB"). Then I had to search
drivers in Internet (there even weren't any driver CD's in the product
box!!! . I thought I won' t find any drivers but finally I could down-
load a driver from their homepage. Even the Installation was difficult -
I had to manually edit the driver path to get the installation program
started. OK, after restaring I run UT - failed. I changed the render device
to D3D so could run it - the resolution was 640x480.

I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH UGLY GRAPHICS IN MY LIFE BEFORE - UGLY
WALLS , UGLY BOTS, UGLY EFFECTS, - EVERYTHING UGLY

Even my old Nvidia Riva128 is better than this card (altough it's much
slower) because it hasn't such ugly images.
I had to change resolution and graphical quality in UT - and even with
that it wasn't fast enough - lost my fun to play UT/CUT.
At least we have another PC (P4 " 2.0 GHz,GeForce4 MX460,256MB RAM)
With that PC it was fun to play UT, but I couldn't play any mods like
CUT or Atlantis and couldn't download maps etc. because this PC has
no Internet connection - and without CUT I have the feeling something's
missin' in UT...
Oh, I wish EMINEM could rap and diss this card...
Now , I know how worthy my Voodoo5 is...

At the other site,

Trident introduced his new card XP4.. I'm sure some of you might heard
about this because it's price is kinda a Deal - it cost's 100$ and Trident
says it has 80% the performance of a GF4 T4600 which means between
Ti 4200 and 4400. This card will released into retail market in a few
months and I hope and I'm 99% sure it'll rock - but what shall I do until
that time? Isn't there any way to export CUT system files into our other
PC to play CUT on it - please help!

Note: If Trident hold to his words - this card is a big fish in the water
because of it's performance due to the price - it's really a deal
- then I suggest to buy this card - if you're not waiting for
killer performance cards like ATI R300 (Radeon3?) and Nvidias
NV30 (GeForce5?)

Thanks's for support

[jb]

Bruce,

sorry for your trouble. What you might want to do is see if you can find an old V3 card as that should run UT for you and if you can find it, it should be cheap.

Do you have access to a CD-Burner? As you can burn the V1.0 full install on a CD? Or maybe have a friend brun it for you? I have even seen some web sites that will let you burn files on CDs then buy it.

Yea there is a lot of neat things going on with the video cards. Right now the ATI R9700 looks to be the best card to run UT2003. I am sure nV's n30 will rock but no one knows when we will see it.

[Bruce Slater]

Sorry , I have no CD-Writer - I asked my father if he can buy one
but he told me it isn't neceesary because our new PC will gain access
to Internet at end of this week - so I'll have to wait or play CUT on this
PC - sh*t

We think my brain damage (follow is psychologic damage) is curied
in ca. 6 months - until that time I'll have to run my PC with that card
- perhaps sometimes I can throw this card into a coin for a few days
to put my Voodoo5 in. The therapy session 'll begin next day - Friday

Damn, Am I the only human in this world who has to suffer from this
**** - Am I not allowed to live happy life - f**k that!!!

Note: Until my damage exist I cannot start to for learning program-
ming or mapping - because I wanna do learn/do maps 4 you since
months!

[jb]

Bruce,

even though we could use help now its much more important that you take care of your self first. Hope you fell better soon.

[LoQtUS]

Brain Damaged... Since the day i was bourn.
Ahhhhh how i love Eminem's Music. It helps me alot. hehehehe Makes me have just the right amount of anger when im working on stuff. Im normaly a pretty nice guy hehe.

< little known fact > DOM/DM/KOTH_Dungeon was inspired by and ( in my openion) is best playd with the Music turned off and "Forgot about Dre" playn on a close by CD player.

I know that ATI's new card seems to be dominating right now, but ( prolly inserting foot in mouth here) give Nvidia a little bit of time and they will top it heheheheh. By the way, Had a Voodoo5 it was great. its a shame that the company went under. after that happend i went to a GF3. that what im running right now

[Sir Tahngarth]

gotta love my GF4 Ti 4200.