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satanicoo · 09-26-2003, 09:41 AM

In case you havent see this:

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Well, well, well. What have NVidia either done, or allowed to happen ?!
There is absolutely nothing positive we can say about this task. It goes
like this : you purchase an NVidia chipset card and install the drivers
– you have Windows 2000. Let’s say the card is a 64Mb graphics card.
If you install the NVidia drivers from the NVidia site, you find that
your card gets recognised as only a 32Mb card. If you then decide to
install the drivers from the CD that came with the card, you find that your
card gets recognised successfully but there is a new task running, RSCMPT,
which gobbles up CPU resources, up to 99% sometimes. So, to summarise :
without RSCMPT your card gets recognised at boot-up as the card you bought,
a 64Mb card, but when you are in Windows it gets recognised as only half that,
32Mb. On the other hand, with RSCMPT Windows recognises your card properly but
your PC slows down to a crawl.
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I think the Rscmpt file is a software based memory emulator. It uses software
and the CPU power to emulate 32 megs of video card memory and adds it to the
video cards true memory or at least what Windows thinks is the true memory.
And that appears to be only 32 megs under W2K.

Now is this just a bug in the W2K OS and this is a bug fix OR is the public
being ripped off.

Even if this is a W2K bug and the Rscmpt file is a bug fix yes it is still a rip off.

It should be made clear to the consumer that the 64 meg MX card has to use a software
memory emulator running under the W2K os. Also what the cost in CPU power and performance
will be when using a software emulator.

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On my GeForce4 MX440, i had the exact same problem, so i checked the model
number on the Video RAM, went to the manufacuters site (Samsung made the ram for my card).
Each chip was 64 Megabits (ie 8 MegaBytes), and there were only 4 chips on the card."

Comments? i would atach the .exe but it is 417 kb...

09-26-2003, 09:41 AM	#1
satanicoo Cooling Savant Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: portugal Posts: 635	Nvidia is RIPPING us OFF! In case you havent see this: "----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, well, well. What have NVidia either done, or allowed to happen ?! There is absolutely nothing positive we can say about this task. It goes like this : you purchase an NVidia chipset card and install the drivers – you have Windows 2000. Let’s say the card is a 64Mb graphics card. If you install the NVidia drivers from the NVidia site, you find that your card gets recognised as only a 32Mb card. If you then decide to install the drivers from the CD that came with the card, you find that your card gets recognised successfully but there is a new task running, RSCMPT, which gobbles up CPU resources, up to 99% sometimes. So, to summarise : without RSCMPT your card gets recognised at boot-up as the card you bought, a 64Mb card, but when you are in Windows it gets recognised as only half that, 32Mb. On the other hand, with RSCMPT Windows recognises your card properly but your PC slows down to a crawl. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think the Rscmpt file is a software based memory emulator. It uses software and the CPU power to emulate 32 megs of video card memory and adds it to the video cards true memory or at least what Windows thinks is the true memory. And that appears to be only 32 megs under W2K. Now is this just a bug in the W2K OS and this is a bug fix OR is the public being ripped off. Even if this is a W2K bug and the Rscmpt file is a bug fix yes it is still a rip off. It should be made clear to the consumer that the 64 meg MX card has to use a software memory emulator running under the W2K os. Also what the cost in CPU power and performance will be when using a software emulator. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On my GeForce4 MX440, i had the exact same problem, so i checked the model number on the Video RAM, went to the manufacuters site (Samsung made the ram for my card). Each chip was 64 Megabits (ie 8 MegaBytes), and there were only 4 chips on the card." Comments? i would atach the .exe but it is 417 kb...