Wednesday, February 19, 2014

A Darker Shade of DVI

My old and venerable video card (GeForce-8800GT) has been installed in that great motherboard in the sky where IRQs never conflict and power always flows at a precisely regulated +5 and +12VDC.  It processed many pixels, and rendered uncounted polygons in its time... a life well lived.  On this video card I played the original Half-life.  And this was the first card on which I was able to crank every option in "Unreal Tournament" and still play at full smooth frame-rates.   But, alas, Eve Online was too much for its old processor.   8800GT was survived by dozens of sparkly little pixels all over my now-speckly displays, who suddenly had no idea what to do with themselves.

(a moment of silence)

8800GT was succeeded yesterday by it's grand-child 660GTX. Upon powering up for the first time... Um... Wow... Really?... Holy fishsticks that's pretty! (Sounds of distracted clicking)

Yes.. right.. um..  Based on my new frame-rates and video capabilities, large projects like the Galaxy that were lagging me to death have become more possible.  I'll see about getting back to them soon...ish.

I do still have that whole family and job addiction thing.

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