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Re: 3dfx VOODOO2 Wanted

#76
From: Ben Miles
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:30
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You are calling me an idiot, and yet you have not tried a wrapper on a GF2U.
Please dont comment on things about which you know nothing. Also, although
many glide wrappers work with UltraHLE, there are many more games that will
not start unless a proper 3dfx card is detected. Anyway we are loosing sight
of the topic in question.

Sam <sonofrage@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:95lm58$783$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> God, what an idiot. Using a Voodoo2 with any of the high end cards of
> today is like having a little kid with a slingshot ride on top of a
> tank. Last time I made this argument someone made the same point about
> old glide games but there's no way you're gonna tell me that a V2 will
> run a game faster that a gf2 ultra with a glide wrapper. I've used glide
> wrappers in the past (for UltraHLE on my girlfriends ati xpert128) and
> it didnt run much slower on an ati xpert128 so you cant tell me it wont
> be perfect on a gf2 ultra.
>
> In article <4oWe6.3087$9g3.409892@news3.cableinet.net>,
>   "Ben Miles" <benmiles@cableinet.co.uk> wrote:
> > And now we know how stupid you are, no glide wrapper works as well as
> a V2,
> > even when on a GF2 Ultra. Do you honestly think there will be a
> defference
> > between a V2 and a V3 at 640x480 - 800x600? Not when coupled with a
> K6-300.
> > As i said, i am not willing to pay �60, Now fuck off and leave this
> thread
> > to people who have a brain.
> > Ben George <ben@73welly.freeserve.com.removethis> wrote in message
> > news:95hb05$eph$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > > Why do you have a V2 and a GeForce DDR? You can't get the effects of
> both.
> > > If you want to use Glide, then get a Glide wrapper for your GeForce.
> > >
> > > "Simon Blom" <famblom@algonet.se> wrote in message
> > > news:95h88t$p0g$1@zingo.tninet.se...
> > > >
> > > > "Ben George" <ben@73welly.freeserve.com.removethis> wrote in
> message
> > > > news:95h7qe$9f1$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > > > > Never owned what? A Voodoo 2? I had one of them, infact I had
> two of
> > > them
> > > > in
> > > > > SLI mode...
> > > >  Then either you're f*cked up, or your cards were... The V2 (and
> V1) are
> > > the
> > > > only good to ever come from 3dfx.. and they were *really* good..
> still
> > are
> > > > actually, I still use my V2 alongside my Geforce DDR
> > > >
> > > > /Simon
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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