My two aforementioned woes. Real Myst and no AGP texturing.
Here's an update:
I've got Real Myst working!! VERY nice with my card. The trick was to get a little known patch (ver 1.1.1, it's little known now since mattelsupport.com no longer supports the game and Ubi Soft doesn't have it. Have to grab it from a message board. I'm planning on posting it on www.driversguide.com later today for those who want it.) and no everything is fine. ALmost. I have some artifacting with shadows and reflections in water. BUt I believe this to be a combination of very early drivers for the card (7.89, which according to TomsHardware is still beta stage) and the fact Real Myst can be anal and really only wants an Nvidia chip. But hey, It's running pretty now!
As for the AGP texturing, someone on the Hercules forum site tells me that AGP texturing acceleration isn't necessary for cards with 64MB of RAM and up. I am very suspicous of this and I'm still researching that.
All in all, I have no troubles with the card. Evenwhile using DX 8. I've gone back to 7.0a and haven't noticed any performance increases. I'll be playing with 8.1 beta later.
The Jolly Wizened Oaf!
Here's an update:
I've got Real Myst working!! VERY nice with my card. The trick was to get a little known patch (ver 1.1.1, it's little known now since mattelsupport.com no longer supports the game and Ubi Soft doesn't have it. Have to grab it from a message board. I'm planning on posting it on www.driversguide.com later today for those who want it.) and no everything is fine. ALmost. I have some artifacting with shadows and reflections in water. BUt I believe this to be a combination of very early drivers for the card (7.89, which according to TomsHardware is still beta stage) and the fact Real Myst can be anal and really only wants an Nvidia chip. But hey, It's running pretty now!
As for the AGP texturing, someone on the Hercules forum site tells me that AGP texturing acceleration isn't necessary for cards with 64MB of RAM and up. I am very suspicous of this and I'm still researching that.
All in all, I have no troubles with the card. Evenwhile using DX 8. I've gone back to 7.0a and haven't noticed any performance increases. I'll be playing with 8.1 beta later.
The Jolly Wizened Oaf!
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