Sherwin Maxawow
11th April 2006, 01:04
Hello Milkdrop masters. I'm sorry ahead of time for making this such a LONG post, but please read over it so you understand my situation clearly, and then hopefully give me some intuitive ideas or answers to my problem. I would REALLY appreciate it. :)
As I mentioned in a recent post, how I just upgraded my whole system, with a new motherboard, CPU and a better video card.
But I cant seem to figure out why Milkdrop isnt running as fast and smooth as I used to seeing it run on my old system and video card.
My old system which I bought in 04 had no problem running at 70+ fps, with my ATI radeon 9600 Pro....which I would always set to the highest quality settings on everything, such as anti alising set to max 16 and so on. I would always set my graphics settings to the very best image quality possible....as opposed to the best possible performance because the performance wasnt effected much on any graphics applications I ever used. Plus I always appreciated knowing that I was always going to be seeing the very best textures and colors possible on my screen....even though this might not have mattered much with MD. But I could get some insane frame rates on Milk when I tried switching settings over to maximum performance, rather than max quality.....as in 120-130 fps....which personally is just too fast for my eyes. Any higher than the 70s is too high I think.
OK now you would think that the new 256 meg ram video card by Nvidia would run noticably better than my old ATI 9600 pro which had just 128 megs of ram, right? My new card is the Geforce 6600 LE in case you want to know.
But to be very honest the frame rates have been disapointing since I first tested out Milkdrop on my new system and card. It struggles during preset transitions, and on certain presets that my old system would never be phased by at all.
What the hell is up with all this is what I keep wondering???
Oh, I should also mention that two weeks before my Athlon CPU died, my comp had got a really bad virus making it impossible to open any program, file or anything no matter what, even in Safe Mode. This resulted in having to reformat my hard disk, losing a lot of valuable files and music. But finally after I finished formating and installing Windows XP, which I upgraded to XP Professional edition from Home edition, my computer still wasnt completely running like its old self. I only noticed it when I installed Winamp and ran Milkdrop being able to achieve the same consitant 70+ frame rates. I'm obessive compulsive about all the settings on Mildrop and my computer being exactly as they always were before too. But This was still on my old system, a week before my Atholon CPU went belly up. I am still using the same old hard drive now though, which I of course had to reformat again for installing the new motherboard.
The reason I mention all this is because someone once told me that they once had continual problems with a "evil" virus EVEN after they reformated their hard disk, and that it was ONLY after they used a program like "Kill Disk" to actually erase all old data that he elimated the problem. I say "EVIL VIRUS" because it must be evil, like an undead vampire virus if it can still mess up your system after you reformat it. An awful virus that could only have come out of Satan's ass. Well, maybe not that awful. but bad enough.
So do I need to do a Kill Disk? Or is their a better program that can wipe away and destroy even the most foul viruses? That is IF that really is what I'm dealing with?
I REBUKE THEE OH SATAN AND EVIL WRITTEN CODE!
Again thanks for anyone taking the time to read over this post, and for any help you can offer. :)
As I mentioned in a recent post, how I just upgraded my whole system, with a new motherboard, CPU and a better video card.
But I cant seem to figure out why Milkdrop isnt running as fast and smooth as I used to seeing it run on my old system and video card.
My old system which I bought in 04 had no problem running at 70+ fps, with my ATI radeon 9600 Pro....which I would always set to the highest quality settings on everything, such as anti alising set to max 16 and so on. I would always set my graphics settings to the very best image quality possible....as opposed to the best possible performance because the performance wasnt effected much on any graphics applications I ever used. Plus I always appreciated knowing that I was always going to be seeing the very best textures and colors possible on my screen....even though this might not have mattered much with MD. But I could get some insane frame rates on Milk when I tried switching settings over to maximum performance, rather than max quality.....as in 120-130 fps....which personally is just too fast for my eyes. Any higher than the 70s is too high I think.
OK now you would think that the new 256 meg ram video card by Nvidia would run noticably better than my old ATI 9600 pro which had just 128 megs of ram, right? My new card is the Geforce 6600 LE in case you want to know.
But to be very honest the frame rates have been disapointing since I first tested out Milkdrop on my new system and card. It struggles during preset transitions, and on certain presets that my old system would never be phased by at all.
What the hell is up with all this is what I keep wondering???
Oh, I should also mention that two weeks before my Athlon CPU died, my comp had got a really bad virus making it impossible to open any program, file or anything no matter what, even in Safe Mode. This resulted in having to reformat my hard disk, losing a lot of valuable files and music. But finally after I finished formating and installing Windows XP, which I upgraded to XP Professional edition from Home edition, my computer still wasnt completely running like its old self. I only noticed it when I installed Winamp and ran Milkdrop being able to achieve the same consitant 70+ frame rates. I'm obessive compulsive about all the settings on Mildrop and my computer being exactly as they always were before too. But This was still on my old system, a week before my Atholon CPU went belly up. I am still using the same old hard drive now though, which I of course had to reformat again for installing the new motherboard.
The reason I mention all this is because someone once told me that they once had continual problems with a "evil" virus EVEN after they reformated their hard disk, and that it was ONLY after they used a program like "Kill Disk" to actually erase all old data that he elimated the problem. I say "EVIL VIRUS" because it must be evil, like an undead vampire virus if it can still mess up your system after you reformat it. An awful virus that could only have come out of Satan's ass. Well, maybe not that awful. but bad enough.
So do I need to do a Kill Disk? Or is their a better program that can wipe away and destroy even the most foul viruses? That is IF that really is what I'm dealing with?
I REBUKE THEE OH SATAN AND EVIL WRITTEN CODE!
Again thanks for anyone taking the time to read over this post, and for any help you can offer. :)