Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?

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From: Thomas Schamer
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 00:00

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If you mean which chart, I'm looking at the Quake II chart.  It's the only
real game chart that is evenly matched because in Turok 2, it doesn't
specify which Voodoo 3 card and also, 3dfx cards are slow at Direct3D and
optimized for Glide.  The TNT-2 is optimized for Direct3D.  On the Unreal
chart, the V3 is faster, but that isn't a fair comparison because Unreal's
Direct3D driver sucks and therefore doesn't show the power of the TNT-2.  I
don't believe in things like 3D Mark 99 MAX or other crap like that.  I play
games with my cards, not benchmark programs, so I want to see real game
results.
On the Quake II chart, in my opinion the V3 is much faster, but AGAIN, this
is only my opinion.

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From: "Thomas Schamer" <t.schamer@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?
Date: 1999/04/06
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