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Article #272Re: Desparately Seeking Kevorkian or Need Advice in Choosing a 3D Card
From: Adam
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:00
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On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 23:33:34 GMT, kendy@rjfm2.demon.co.uk wrote: >On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:17:45 GMT, ale@dynaman.demon.co.uk (Adam) >wrote: > >>OK.. so yes the 3DFX will give you the most bang for your processor, >>and it will scale upwards if you get a faster CPU, (i.e. you will get >>faster framerates in most games with a P200MMX.) The jump won't be as >>noticeable as if say you went from a P133 with a PCX2 to a P200MMX >>with a PCX2) > >I would still like to know what causes the massive slowdown on some >Quake Levels..or is this a stupid question? Texture thrash. (Apparently) I think this means (someone will correct me if I am wrong) that the size of the textures is such that it fills the memory capacity of the card too quickly, and when the next texture is requested its not on the card and has to be tranfered over the bus to the card. This will probably be alleviated with cards that have 6 megs or when we are all using AGP.. ;-) - Biffa on IRC - DALnet -#mIRC,#chatzone,#cyberfriends DALnet "Fly the Friendlier SkIRCs" http://www.dal.net DALnet newsgroup Q's asked/answered in alt.irc.dalnet
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