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Re: Recommendations for 3D Card?

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From: Vinar The Vincible!
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 00:00
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That's strange that its jerky! I'm running a PII-300 192MB RAM and a V3-2000
with the clipping all the way up and its smooth as silk in Kunark(even with
Mipmapping on)

"Lawless" <lawless@smgfan.com> wrote in message
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> pblonde2 wrote:
>
> > So don't get one, as I said, the Voodoo5 5500 OR the GeForce are pretty
much the only
> > 2 cards that would be a game-upgrade from the original poster's TNT2,
without going
> > to the high-cost high-end extreme of the GeForce2 or the (still
unreleased, AFAIK)
> > Voodoo5 6000. And when it comes to gaming, there really aren't any other
players (pun
> > intended).
>
> So basically, I wouldn't notice much of an improvement over my TNT 2
> and should wait for better cards to come out?  I don't really need a
> new card, just thought it would be nice to have so I could use my
> video capture card, and also because I haven't even been able to
> really adventure in Kunark because the textures in places like Burning
> Woods and Frontier Mountains make it too dangerous to travel there
> alone, and is only tolerable with the clipping plain almost all the
> way down.  I can't stand the jerkiness of those zones and don't want
> to run into a topugh mob and die because I couldn't see it with the
> clipping plain down.  I'm running a 550 PIII box with 128 Mb of ram
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From: "Vinar The Vincible!" <vinar@sover.net>
Subject: Re: Recommendations for 3D Card?
Date: 2000/07/03
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