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Article #126Re: Papa Doc! Oh, guru of the Voodoo, grant me wisdom!
From: Wim Libaers
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 19:38
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 19:38
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On Sun, 05 May 2002 17:53:17 GMT, ray wrote... > I recently upgraded to 8.1 and ran the same tests, but don't > have that problem with my Diamond Moster, which is a Banshee > 3DFX card (don't laugh). I have the latest drivers, since I updated > them 2-3 years ago, I believe to the reference ones. So I find it > odd that my older 3DFX card runs just fine on 8.1, but not > V5500. > > My next card though will be a GeForce3 or 4. Folks, the > war is long over. Nvidia and Direct X won. I adopted > 3dfx for the same reasons you did: titles that work better/only > with Glide. But now I don't see much use in buying unsupported > 3dfx hardware to run a few older titles. Time to adapt or be > left-behind! :-) > > > RayO, > Soon to become a Nvidiot <G> [...] NVidia and DirectX shouldn't win (and my video card is a TNT2). Definitely not. Neither should Glide. OpenGL, being a standard, is better but I'd prefer a situation where none wins. We've already seen what happens when an OS manufacturer wins, and it's not pretty. -- Wim Libaers Remove DONTSPAM from my reply address to send me mail.
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