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Article #423Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?
From: Byron Montgomerie
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 00:00
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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. :) >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. >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. :)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,3bf2e229bc16fa8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,3bf2e229bc16fa8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public From: byronm@DELETE.thezone.net (Byron Montgomerie) Subject: Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither? Date: 1999/04/07 Message-ID: <370b943f.2909736@news.thezone.net> X-Deja-AN: 463717140 References: <36F9D174.626A9661@NOSPAMhome.com> <7dcrl9$6c1$1@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <52F6ECA1A90D5450.1A1EA646BC48AB1D.E55D8869CC4050E0@library-proxy.airnews.net> <7de5eh$618$1@fir.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <9E52D478FF2E9A84.BD5BBDA8BB69250D.99A93CFEA9E23551@library-proxy.airnews.net> <7df5c7$p5p$1@fir.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <w8eL2.43$04.77@stones> <36fe5750.378438@news.thezone.net> <IDcN2.26600$Ll.3441@nntp0.detroit.mi.ameritech.net> <37056ea4.11213424@news.thezone.net> <M1lN2.27290$Ll.3184@nntp0.detroit.mi.ameritech.net> <M_nN2.3945$LM.7798@news.rdc1.mi.home.com> <rDBN2.29199$Ll.3649@nntp0.detroit.mi.ameritech.net> <G1CN2.4107$LM.8102@news.rdc1.mi.home.com> <7e6vrd$o5k$1@news.erinet.com> <hpKN2.4123$LM.8044@news.rdc1.mi.home.com> <7e7uo1$it0$1@news.erinet.com> <LaMN2.4156$LM.7273@news.rdc1.mi.home.com> <7e83lg$lp5$1@news.erinet.com> <37083161.0@news.mocc.net> <37088bf8.878004411@news.mindspring.com> <37095b42.0@news.mocc.net> Organization: St. John's, NF, Canada Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,3dfx.products.voodoo2