Ruby Doublecross Demo on X1900

[First of One]

Any X1900 owners got the Ruby Doublecross demo working? It was released as
an X800 demo: http://www.ati.com/developer/demos/rx800.html . I tried both
the official ATi release and Colorless' version, which works on R300
hardware. Both versions give me an error about bad pixel shader code. The
sound plays and I get some icons, just no video. I'm using Cat 6.3 "Chuck"
drivers.

 

[Tony DiMarzio]

Any X1900 owners got the Ruby Doublecross demo working? It was released as
an X800 demo: http://www.ati.com/developer/demos/rx800.html . I tried both
the official ATi release and Colorless' version, which works on R300
hardware. Both versions give me an error about bad pixel shader code. The
sound plays and I get some icons, just no video. I'm using Cat 6.3 "Chuck"
drivers.

Works for me on X1900XTX.

Try "official" Cat 6.2.

Tony

 

[First of One]

I see. I'll wait until all the "Chuck" features are incorporated into the
next official driver release, then. Thanks.

 

[Tony DiMarzio]

I see. I'll wait until all the "Chuck" features are incorporated into the
next official driver release, then. Thanks.

No problem. Did the Cat 6.2 release fix it?

Does the "Ruby: The Assassin" demo work where "double cross" does not?

Tony

 

[First of One]

No problem. Did the Cat 6.2 release fix it?

Didn't try. I will take your word for it and run it again with perhaps Cat
6.5. I need the Cat 6.3 "Chuck" release for Oblivion. "Ruby: Doublecross"
ran at about 20 fps on my 9800 Pro with full visuals. I was just interested
to see how much faster the X1900 can do it.

Does the "Ruby: The Assassin" demo work where "double cross" does not?

Yep, "The Assassin" runs nice and smooth with the 6.3 drivers. ATi should
make a full game out of it...

BTW, it's good to see WMV HD acceleration active by default, since there's
no Fast Writes option on PCIe boards.

 

[Lion Of Judah]

Didn't try. I will take your word for it and run it again with perhaps Cat
6.5. I need the Cat 6.3 "Chuck" release for Oblivion. "Ruby: Doublecross"
ran at about 20 fps on my 9800 Pro with full visuals. I was just
interested to see how much faster the X1900 can do it.


Yep, "The Assassin" runs nice and smooth with the 6.3 drivers. ATi should
make a full game out of it...

Are these demos fixed at 1024x768 or do they run at whatever your desktop is
at?

 

[First of One]

The resolution, screen aspect ratio and a few other things are all defined
in the sushi.ini file in the demo folder.

 

[Tony DiMarzio]

Didn't try. I will take your word for it and run it again with perhaps Cat
6.5. I need the Cat 6.3 "Chuck" release for Oblivion. "Ruby: Doublecross"
ran at about 20 fps on my 9800 Pro with full visuals. I was just
interested to see how much faster the X1900 can do it.


Yep, "The Assassin" runs nice and smooth with the 6.3 drivers. ATi should
make a full game out of it...

BTW, it's good to see WMV HD acceleration active by default, since there's
no Fast Writes option on PCIe boards.

That was one of the first things I noticed/tested

Switching to PCI-E was a very hard thing for me to do (justify) because of
how I felt/feel about my AGP setup and its untapped bandwidth. However, now
that I've begrudgingly switched to PCI-E I'm pretty happy with it. All
around it's been a pleasant experience, and I'm VERY happy to do away with
the finicky AGP Fast Writes, Side Band Addressing, Aperture modes and sizes
etc etc etc...

 

[Lion Of Judah]

The resolution, screen aspect ratio and a few other things are all defined
in the sushi.ini file in the demo folder.

Hey cool, thanks. I'll have a look. I like the motorcycle demo, her eyes are
incredible. Like how you can pause and rotate and zoom in and out...she is
sexy!

 

[Lion Of Judah]

The resolution, screen aspect ratio and a few other things are all defined
in the sushi.ini file in the demo folder.

Hey cool, thanks. I'll have a look. I like the motorcycle demo, her eyes are
incredible. Like how you can pause and rotate and zoom in and out. She looks
so
perfect.

 

[First of One]

Enjoy it while it lasts. Pretty soon the spin doctors at Intel and nVidia
will be pushing for things like PCIe Turbo-32, with 0.1 V signaling, etc.,
etc. They gotta find new ways to convince people to upgrade...

I was able to switch the motherboard (Asus A8R-MVP, the beige one) without
reinstalling Windows. XP's rebuild function is pretty slick.