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Re: Either the nVidia GeForce256 benchmarks are VERY underwhelming....

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From: David Hall
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:00
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Hi Angelo,

> DX7 alone wont speed up any games with the GeForce.  The games need to use
> the T&L engine in DX7 to enable hardware support.  There are maybe 3 games
> at the most so far that have used the DX T&L engine.  Most game
programmers
> that are using DX as the API of choice write their own T&L routines.
Nvidia
> and Creative just keep making statements that tend to mislead the general
> consumer.  They make it seem just because a game uses DX7 then the GeForce
> will automatically accelerate the game because of the hardware T&L, which
is
> pure bullshit.

Your comments are interesting but as far as I can read, your the one with
the pure bs.

If not, then I'd like to read some of the "statements that tend to mislead
the general consumer".

It's early days yet for the GeForce. In some ways it reminds me of the days
when the TNT1 was released. I jumped on the bandwagon then and have not
regretted it. I knew what i was buying and what I was getting (early
unfinished and unoptimised drivers) and was happy to wait for them to be
improved. The wait was certainly worth it. Now I am ready to jump again.

As with the TNT1, all I can say to those that buy the GeForce card, it can
only get better & faster as the drivers mature and the games that take
advantage of it, appear. Enjoy your card.

Cheers,

David...

David Hall (in Australia)
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Subject: Re: Either the nVidia GeForce256 benchmarks are VERY underwhelming....
Date: 1999/09/28
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