🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:17:12 -0700, Lucky
<luckydazeNOluSPAM@the-beach.net.invalid> wrote:

>The Nvidia cards are just faster then Voodoo cards. 

Hrm.  Papadoc sez framerate in Falcon4 are higher for the Voodoo...
by... err... quite a bit.  (But that's using Glide! Not fair!  But...
er... who care?  You just want the card to go fast, right?)

>Heck
>you can even run a flight sim in 32 bit and get good speed. 

You know, when we hit the Voodoo3 vs TNT wars, wasn't the competition
between 32-bit color and fast graphics, with NVidia on the "pretty"
side of the fence?  Now we're all turned around and I'm confused.

> I'm not going to support 3dfx out of nostalgia and sell myself short.

Don't blame you.  No one here is.  Advocacy for the sake of advocacy
is stupid.

>Screenshots mean shit because that's not how you view a sim when
>you play it unless you're running a 386. What you can discern is
>speed or FPS. 

I disagree.  Flight sims running at 20-25fps can really benefit from
improved graphics quality.  The cockpit Jane's F/A-18 is much cleaner
with anti-aliasing on, and that runs faster with the Voodoo.

>I laugh when reviews or people post screenshots.
>It's not a totally practical way to really gauge a videocard if
>you're playing sims or even first person shooters. 

Hardcore first person shooter guys concentrate on framerate because
the better frame rate, the better they play.  ( I bet there are people
out there playing Quake 3 at 320x200 to get maximum framerate).  I
don't understand your "even first person shooter remark."  

You're also ignoring the fact that at high resolution (which is what
you play sims at, in order to get the most info on the screen,
right?), neither the Voodoo5 or the GeForce is substantially different
in FPS.  However, the Voodoo5 looks better.

>If your
>dancing around like a fairy playing RPG then that's a different
>story. 

Everyone who plays RPGs are fairies?  Even those thirteen-bazillion
people that bought Diablo 2?  Gee, that's a little stereotypical,
ain't it?

Why don't you argue about something worth arguing about..

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