For All Those Of You Who Were Not Aware.....

Wile_E_Coyote · March 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">Powerstrip</div> OMG I can't believe I didn't know about this and used to try and play games without it. I have a crappy monitor and NO videocard support software gives a decent amount of control over the gamma, brightness and contrast.

It's shareware but the the unregistered is fully functional and doesn't expire.

I am not aware of this being AdWare.

anyway, you can find it here:
<a href='http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm' target='_blank'>powerstrip</a>

And no, I am not their monkey spokeperson <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> Just thought there might b a couple of you who suffer as I do with monitor headaches.

b00jah · March 2003

It does what it advertises. I just wish it didn't such as big "in-your-face" approach when booting up and trying to squeeze the cash out of you. Ended up being the reason why I uninstalled it. I'm a very minimalistic guy when it comes to my computer. Fast and sleek is the way to be <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

TheHornet · March 2003

hmmm, looks like it may get annoying, if what you say about big money squeezer is true, but helpful none the less.

Zel · March 2003

i use powerstrip to safely, easily and quickly overclock my video card up 8% for palying NS and down 15% for non-gaming.

with this i get a few more frames per second and i feel like i am prolonging the life of my video card by putting it into hibernation while running things like Word and IE.

it also lets you set resolution as high as your monitor allows, which is way past what windows lets you on the display properties dialog.

pardzh · March 2003

Can't believe I never used this before...

Thanks. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Immacolata · March 2003

Powerstrip is on the list of my "must haves" for my Windows PC. I bought it after I figured out I use the program each day for many things. Gamma and brightness adjustment on-the-fly, screen size switching, and diverse tweakings of my videosubsystem. Once you've paid for it, it's very little intrusive.

smokingwreckage · March 2003

It also has a nice function for reclaiming RAM from windows, works very well. I can get 92% system resources free.

DizzyOne · March 2003

I had thoughts about bying it legal, cuz at startup the close button has a timer, and my timer starts at 250 (or even more), thats becuz I used it so long, I actually dont mind it (atm its still encounting) but sometimes if I screw up my desktop icons and I want to restore their placement (yes u can do that with powerstrip), but then I have to wait so long till I can close the tips <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>, every week or something it adds like 10 seconds (something like that, I dont really keep track of it).

w00teh · March 2003

I truly despise anything that tries to annoy people into buying it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

/me adds powerstrip to his list of things to avoid.

Sandrock · March 2003

You might want to be very careful using this program. I tried overclocking my video card just a tad (processor from ~213mhz to 230mhz, memory from ~513mhz to 550mhz) and whenever I tried playing NS, it said my opengl mode wasn't supported. It still said this after I reset to default settings and uninstalled the program - I had to do a system restore. So there's my fair warning, be careful!

Zel · March 2003

last time it told me that error was when my friend unknowingly deleted my video driver files. so there. maybe it wasnt pstrip.exe <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

Sandrock · March 2003

Maybe. And then maybe I'm an incompetent fool? But who knows right? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Jower · March 2003

How do you unknowingly delete video driver files anyway ?
hehe

Sandrock · March 2003

I can understand a friend doing it, but I'm pretty sure I didn't delete ANY files, much less video drivers.

Jower · March 2003

I cant understand a friend doing it...
Its not like something you do for rightclicking on the startmenu instead of leftclicking...

Selbstmord · March 2003

to me, powerstrip = cheat

xioutlawix · March 2003

This should be great...

Why, to you, does powerstrip = cheat :-D

Talesin · March 2003

Pretty sure he just saw all the other 'exploit' and 'cheat' threads sitting around, and decided to toss that up to join in. That or he's never used it, so has no idea what it actually does.

That or he was just joking, and forgot to put the <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags on.. but that's giving the benefit of the doubt, something I don't tend to do much any more with humans. :b

BJayD · March 2003

More than likely he means because it allows you to change gamma and brightness settings so high that even dark corners in maps are fully bright, then again anyone who says that should try playing on an old system. I remember before release, someone posted a "fun" screenshot of ns_nothing. After 30 minutes of the PT's laughing at me because I couldn't understand what was funny, someone manually changed the gamma of the picture. Lo and behold, there were several pictures of dancing Flayra edited onto the screenshot, only on my system I couldn't see a damn thing.
So yeah...PowerStrip is a great app for me at least <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Wile_E_Coyote · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Selbstmord @ Mar 2 2003, 04:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> to me, powerstrip = cheat  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
OMG

Man I swear people will WHINE about anything. Yeah and having a monitor that has brightness and contrast controls is cheating too! Yeah, yeah, and video cards that come with overclocking software, those lamers, how dare they cheat!

How about a nice, tall glass of SHUT THE F_CK UP!

Sorry, I just had to get that out. As far as problems, I'm sure that like with any program out there on the net there may be one or two that can't handle it. But to assure some of you, I have three computers which all have powerstrip on them now. Video cards as follows: ATI 9700, GeForce 2 and Voodoo 3. All are mated to AMD CPU's and 2 of them to ASUS motherboards. Powerstrip works with ALL of them.

Most important was the old Voodoo 3, which I cannot find ANYTHING but the original drivers now that 3DFX is out of busiess. WickedGL used to work but the webpage is toast and I can't find it anywhere. The OEM videocard control software was not designed for and will not run under windows xp or 2000. I had pretty much givenup until I found Powerstrip. And if you don't like people asking for money everytime you start the program they are letting you use for FREE (new version has no expiration) then buy it or have a nice tall glass of..............

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Nicator · March 2003

Have you looked here? <a href='http://www.voodoofiles.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.voodoofiles.com/</a>

Might help you with your 3DFX needs <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Wile_E_Coyote · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nicator @ Mar 2 2003, 07:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Have you looked here? <a href='http://www.voodoofiles.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.voodoofiles.com/</a>

Might help you with your 3DFX needs <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
YES. DUH <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Most of the programs works fine with win 95 - ME. You run into problems when you have win XP or 2000. Most of the them just don't work right. (Yes, I am running win 2000 on an AMD 500 mhz w/ 128 RAM and a 3DFX Voodoo 3 - it runs just fine). I was about to wipe the disk on that computer and reinstall ME just so I could get my video toolbox back when I found the powerstrip thingy.

NOTE: You can find 2 dozen sites about WickedGL on the web, but every single one of them points you back to the WickedGL homepage - which no longer exists!

Mythr1l · March 2003

i used to use powerstrip but i got tired of the lame countdown on bootup, i searched download.com for a differnt gamma adjuster and found something called Gammalaunch (think its called that tho not sure) its a 14 day trial period but you can get by that by adjusting your system date...

it does the same as powerstrip but without all the fancy crap, adjust's gamma and thats it, sits quietly on your menubar <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

oh and to people who think gamma adjusters = cheat, you probably have a good moniter, my friend doesnt need one and NS is far brighter on his PC than on mine when i dont use the gamma program, i tryed to play a game without it and its just impossable.

Selbstmord · March 2003

no, I think all third party applications which give you an unfair advantage over other players not using it is h4x

Shadow_Hunter · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Selbstmord Posted on Mar 2 2003, 10:02 PM
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no, I think all third party applications which give you an unfair advantage over other players not using it is h4x</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

Its being suggested for people who's systems can't run gamma high enough to see anything. Most people with newer systems have no problem with this, and can change it in the options menu. From what I've heard, it doesn't sound like it gives any unfair advantage. And just as a general statement to everyone, please try and reserve "elite"-speak (ie. h4x, etc.) for CS and other such retarded games. The idea behind NS is to require some thought and intelligence from players(waits for flames...).

Zel · March 2003

does my 448 megs of ram make me h4x over the guy with 320? no....

Kiz · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zel @ Mar 2 2003, 08:48 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> does my 448 megs of ram make me h4x over the guy with 320? no....  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Shhhh! Don't mention that! He'll start demanding everyone play with the absolute bare minimum specs! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Church · March 2003

I can't figure out how to use powerstrip! What do I need to do to make my fps go up?

Jammer · March 2003

I like it. You need to be careful though- you can really mess up your system. Increase it a little bit at a time till you start getting lock ups/visual errors. Also- I suggest people using this set it so it only overclocks during HL/other games. extend overclocking w/o proper cooling is dangerous to your system! I was able to up my clock speed 15mhz... I haven't tried playing with the RAM bus... thanks for the link, working great.

Talesin · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Kiz @ Mar 2 2003, 09:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zel @ Mar 2 2003, 08:48 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> does my 448 megs of ram make me h4x over the guy with 320? no.... </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Shhhh! Don't mention that! He'll start demanding everyone play with the absolute bare minimum specs! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Erp.. he'll really hate my 1.5GB then. :b As well as my video card, CPU, monitor, optical mouse... after all, all of those are advantages over someone playing NS on a stick and a piece of string. Which of course is unfair to those lacking string. Or a stick. Or both. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Playing with gamma set far too high /is/ unfair to other players. Playing after using a utility to set your gamma properly is not. Or to flush your RAM. Or to clock up your video card, if it can handle the strain.

xioutlawix · March 2003

I am teh
radeon 9700 pro
1gig ddr ram
and 2.4ghz p4

i am t3h h4x0r winnar!

For All Those Of You Who Were Not Aware.....

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