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Article #11Re: Recommendations for 3D Card?
From: Vinar The Vincible!
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 00:00
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 news:39610CD7.19747A2A@smgfan.com... > 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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd8de,846e6ad797254000 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd8de,public X-Google-Thread: fb739,846e6ad797254000 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb739,public X-Google-Thread: 115b17,846e6ad797254000 X-Google-Attributes: gid115b17,public X-Google-Thread: 10db54,846e6ad797254000 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db54,public From: "Vinar The Vincible!" <vinar@sover.net> Subject: Re: Recommendations for 3D Card? Date: 2000/07/03 Message-ID: <jAc85.4103$R12.273535@news-east.usenetserver.com> X-Deja-AN: 642086025 References: <3960B6F7.5F083356@smgfan.com> <SM285.14058$wB1.1751992@news3.cableinet.net> <3960D1E0.63EF5287@home.com> <san1ms8oftl9bsf4a9t23osqai5amuhufh@4ax.com> <3960F642.126B21E9@home.com> <39610CD7.19747A2A@smgfan.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: support@usenetserver.com Organization: WebUseNet Corp http://www.usenetserver.com - Home of the fastest NNTP servers on the Net. X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 23:10:07 EDT Newsgroups: alt.games.everquest,alt.games.video,3dfx.games,3dfx.glide