All-In-Wonder 9700 + Freelancer + Thruview = Bliss!

Sat Apr 05, 2003 5:12 am by stevedroid

I just got a All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro video card, and it's thre greatest gaming creation in the history of mankind. For those who don't know, the All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro is a normal Radeon 9700 Pro video card with a decent cable tuner/video adapter package jammed on it.

The TV component has some great capabilities. In addition to making the PC essentially a Tivo, it has a feature called Thruview. Thruview lets you run a TV window (or even a full screen) semi-transparent in the background. It blends your active image with the TV image so both are still intelligible. Great while your word processing, but I was hesitant to use it with anything 3D, didn't even think it would work.

Well my worries were unfounded since the TV and 3D components are integrated, as I most wonderfully discovered I can run it with Freelancer just fine. So up in that empty upper left corner of the hud I now always run a Thruview window with Freelancer. Sure takes the bore out of those long travel times. Heh, it's like my ship is equiped with cable TV!

The AIW also came with a RF remote control, which still works on the TV even when it's not the active app. So I can even still change channels and adjust the volume without having to exit Freelancer. Ah, it is bliss indeed.

Edited by - stevedroid on 05-04-2003 06:56:29

Sat Apr 05, 2003 5:20 am by slug609

I'm sure I would end up crashing into a planet or something... I tend to get distracted by some of the...erm... programs I watch on TV. Hehe.

Sat Apr 05, 2003 5:56 am by stevedroid

Ah that's what autopilot is for...besides with mouse control you only need one hand to fly

Sat Apr 05, 2003 8:58 am by Harabecw

hahaha, very nice. strange that it works with freelancer.

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Sat Apr 05, 2003 5:55 pm by Natrunner

Good for you. Enjoy the new video card. I have a Radeon 9700 Pro. I am quite satisfied with it.

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Sat Apr 05, 2003 8:56 pm by Flak Cannon

hee hee cable tv on a ship... u see in a dogfight this long ass coaxial trailing from the eagle... hmmm my geforce 2 is sufficient enough...

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Sat Apr 05, 2003 9:31 pm by slug609

@stevedroid: lol, so true... I guess I will just need that one hand on the mouse...

Sun Apr 06, 2003 4:41 am by stevedroid

strange that it works with freelancer.

I found it actually works with all 3D games, I just never tried it before, Still, the only game I play where it's appropriate (e.g. the only game where I don't need 100%l concentration) is Freelancer, plus it fits so nicely in that upper left corner

u see in a dogfight this long ass coaxial trailing from the eagle

LOL, yeah that'd be one heck of a long cable!

hmmm my geforce 2 is sufficient enough

I actually upgraded from a GeForce 3 Ti 200, and the game ran fine for me as well even with maxxed settings. However, with the Radeon I can enable 8-tap anisotropic filtering and 4X antialiasing and still get better performance than with the GF3. The filtering gets rid of all those mip-map lines and the AA gets rid of any jaggies, and the game truely looks not just good, but spectacular. Plus, I always heard a rumor that ATI cards had better color control than nVidia cards and I can confrim that's true; colors look so much richer on the Radeon.

Edited by - stevedroid on 06-04-2003 05:46:24

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