A high-performance graphics card will certainly help. The underlying system spends a lot of time blitting 32-bit RGB bitmaps to the screen. But no 3D capabilities of the card will be used.

If you have more than one 3d accelerator card and would like to change which card the game uses, edit the config.dat file in your install directory (using a text editing program such as notepad). Remove the semi-colon from the line ';ChooseDevice=true'. When you next run the game, you will be given the option to choose which accelerator card is used.

There are various programs that can be used to measure the performance of your graphics card. Please refer to our Benchmarking Guide, which is still useful but somewhat outdated, and the Technology Page on how to benchmark and where to obtain popular benchmarking programs.

No. You need a 3D Card, but it does not have to the latest and greatest. A 3D graphics card that is DirectX 9 compatible is all that's required. If you do have a super high powered 3D card, you will enjoy an enhanced battlefield experience.

Graphics cards are stated within the item description. If they're not stated, then presume them to be integrated.

We heal your viruses. (Actually, we kill them.) Then we remove unwanted software and unused files. You'll probably notice a big difference in your computer's speed.

The performance of XINS self is typically very good, especially since XINS 1.3.0. If you have a performance problem, then use the NetBeans profiler with the profile target. You will find it in the demo/nbbuild.xml file. You can also change the logging level of Log4j to WARN. If you really believe XINS is a bottleneck in your situation, please send an e-mail to the xins-users mailing list with some details and, if possible, a reproducible testcase.

The comp.graphics.algorithms FAQ contains a lot of 3D graphics information that isn't specific to OpenGL. excellent general computer graphics text is Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Second Edition, by James Foley, et al. ISBN 0-201-12110-7. It has been mentioned that this book is out of print and that a third edition is planned for release in January 2001. However, some online book retailers still seem to have it for sale. Try amazon.com.

We use an overhead view because it's better for seeing who is in your adventuring party. Smaller graphics mean that you can see farther and more people, and Clan Lord tends to have lots of people playing together. (Why else be online?) And tiny graphics look better hand-drawn than 3D.

In creating this game, we decided that instead of focusing on creating pretty graphics, we would instead focus on creating a game which was fun to play. Also, since we do coding for this game in our spare time, we decided to try and limit the complexity of the task we were undertaking. A third reason is that none of the current development team is familiar with either of the two dominant graphics APIs: DirectX and OpenGL.

Surprisingly there is no simple way in Windows to check the 3D graphics capability of a PC. The best way we have found is to Start / Run / DXDIAG and view the Display information reported. If the Device name contains nVidia GeForce or ATI Radeon and the memory is 32MB or greater then the 3D graphics aspect should be satisfied. We have received feedback that the Intel 915 (with 128MB of shared memory) also performs satisfactory.

The performance of QuickDraw 3D is up to 6X the performance of a Power Macintosh? 9500 running with software only. This performance should be realized on any PCI-based Mac? OS computer using Xclaim™ VR or Xclaim™ 3D as the performance is a function of the ATI 3D RAGE II & 3D RAGE PRO engine. QuickDraw 3D performance is due to a number of factors.

If you are having performance problems with your database application, you need to focus on "using more the brain and less the muscles". Smarter is better than stronger. This means in practice that it will not work just by switching to a more expensive database server, or to database abstraction that is claimed to be faster. You need to analyze the roots of your problems before you make any changes to your applications. Do not start making changes before you are sure of the benefits.

Yes. Active Feet Orthotics not only increases your performance level, but also protects your body. Minor imbalances of the foot may not be a problem with normal daily activity, but the increased demands sports put on your feet makes you vulnerable to injury. By having your feet function in their ideal position your performance and protection is optimized.

You can use Visual Studio 2005 to compile your application and specify that it should run on a 64-bit operating system either as a native application or under WOW64; however, Visual Studio 2005 itself (including Team Suite and the role-based editions) is a 32-bit application and when installed on a 64-bit Windows operating system will run under WOW64. Likewise, Team Foundation Build is a 32-bit application and when installed on a 64-bit Windows operating system will run under WOW64.

In a previous question we make a reference on how to improve and optimize your company performance (logically with technology, human resources and qualified personnel. If you have good products, and you want to increase the production, the only way is to contract/hire more personnel or to improve the current working conditions, so your people, can render the double, doing the same or less effort.

Yes. Wiltshire Dragon and Aradindae Dragon have created a patch which makes considerable improvements in the EGA graphics tiles.