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Byron Montgomerie <byronm@DELETE.thezone.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:58:54 -0600, "Freon" <See@signature.com> wrote:
> >> "V3 supports the features and has the speed needed for this year."
> >>
> >> "This year" being the key phrase there for many.
>
> >This year (key phrase), there are quite a few good games being released
with
> >24/32bit textures.
>
> As well as 16 bit textures for backward compatibility. I'd like to
> know what a 32bit texture consists of though. :)

No.  Developers are not going to do 2 versions of textures.  Cards that are
limited to 16bit will take the 32bit texture and convert it when they
output.

> >This year, there are also going to be games that support volumetric
shadows
> >using the stencil buffer.
>
> Good one! :)
>
> >This year, 32MB RAM might be a good thing for video cards.
> >This year, AGP texturing might come in to use.
>
> TNT doesn't do DIME, but DMA only, but you don't need either with 32MB
> of ram.  Anything using more than that for textures with todays PCs
> is going to be too slow to use anyway.

TNT does DiME.  But like you said, with 32MB it shouldnt even be a factor
for TNT2.

> >This year, Voodoo3 has none of those features.
>
> That's right, but not everyone needs the most wiz bang features when
> the price is right for a damn fast card.  Personally, I like image
> quality over speed, hence my interest in the G400 or Permedia 3.  I
> might even try NVIDIA again for their next product after the TNT2, by
> that time they might even have decent drivers. :)

Personally, I like to run games as they were meant to be run.  Voodoo2 has
always given me no-compromise gaming.  There is no way I am going to
"upgrade" to a card that will force me to disable features in many upcoming
games that I am looking forward to.