Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?

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From: Doug
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 00:00

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"Freon" <See@signature.com> wrote:

>This year (key phrase), there are quite a few good games being released with
>24/32bit textures.

Don't need it.

>This year, there are also going to be games that support volumetric shadows
>using the stencil buffer.

Don't need it.

>This year, 32MB RAM might be a good thing for video cards.
>This year, AGP texturing might come in to use.

Might, might, if, and, but.  

Bottom line, VooDoo works best, day in and day out.  Even the old
VooDoo2 has Brian Hook "amazed" and "giddy" at it's performance in
Quake 3.

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From: dougz@dgii.com (Doug)
Subject: Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?
Date: 1999/04/06
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