Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?

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From: LupNOSPAMine
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 00:00

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In article <7egg9d$15u$1@news.ycc.yale.edu>, abc@abc.abc (Heretic) wrote:

> In article <LupNOSPAMine-0704991437320001@192.168.1.97>, 
> LupNOSPAMine@freenet.net says...
> >
> >It can potentially. It's generally a good sign when the video card
> >manufacture cares about the performance of their OpenGL ICD ( full )
> >enough to work with major industry leading OpenGL applications. Solidworks
> >is just one example..
> >
> >
> >> Does anyone here care about Solidworks?
> >
> >Well, if all you do is play games with your graphics cards.. probably not.
> >If however, you actually do meaningful work...
> 
> As far as I know, NVidia has done far better job on the
> OpenGL ICD driver than 3dfx. 

The discussion was nvidia versus 3dlabs. 3dlabs manufactures some of the
best, mid to high end, openGL and Heidi graphic cards.. and their
Permedia2 ( and soon P3 ) series offered many openGL application
functionality not found in your traditional cards.  

3dfx had been a strictly dedicated 3D game company, and to my knowledge,
no one ever used a V2 for opengl applications. 

Up until Q3, no one was hurt by the minigl driver. However, this round of
games, the minigl won't cut it, as the games are being written with
features not in that minigl library.

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From: LupNOSPAMine@freenet.net (LupNOSPAMine)
Subject: Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?
Date: 1999/04/08
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