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pblonde2 <pblonde2@home.com> wrote:

>Your TNT2 should be more than adequate, but if you simply must have the best, go
>with the Voodoo5 5500 (as EQ was written for the 3Dfx GLide graphics language)

Yep, if your *only* consideration is EQ and other glide-specific games
(as someone noted, D3D seems to have been an afterthought for EQ),
Voodoo is still the way to go.

However, it's wise to consider any other uses as well (other games or
applications). I'm doing OpenGL programming, so Voodoo didn't make
much sense. 

>The GeForce2 is hampered by the fact that its memory cannot keep
>up with its processor

That's pretty much the case with all high-end video cards anymore.

I'm running a 64Meg GeForce2 card, and with FSAA turned off for D3D,
it's flawless running EQ at 800x600 (limited tests at 1024x768 seemed
good, as well, but the text in this game is already hard enough to
read). Even in heavily wooded Kunark zones, with the clip plane pushed
out to its extreme limit and all special effect (sky, detail) at max,
it's smooth.

>P.S.: If your power supply is anything less than 250W don't bother with any
>GeForce, you haven't got enough juice.

If anyone's trying to run a serious machine with less than 300W, they
need to upgrade no matter what.

>I don't know about the power requirements of
>the 3Dfx boards but I bet they're up there.

Doesn't the Voodoo 5 come with it's own power supply? 

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