Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?

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From: Freon
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 00:00

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bp <sixball@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 22:47:49 -0600, "Freon" <See@signature.com> wrote:
>
> >Yeah.. ok.  TNT is a hell of a lot more than Riva128.  TNT2 is to TNT
what
> >Voodoo2 was to Voodoo1.  Thats a good thing.  TNT2 supports the features
and
> >has the speed needed for this year.
> >Besides being faster, how much different is Voodoo3 from Voodoo2?  Or
even
> >Voodoo1?  Not much at all.
> Here I'll phrase the same way you just did.
> "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.
This year, there are also going to be games that support volumetric shadows
using the stencil buffer.
This year, 32MB RAM might be a good thing for video cards.
This year, AGP texturing might come in to use.
This year, Voodoo3 has none of those features.

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From: "Freon" <See@signature.com>
Subject: Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?
Date: 1999/04/05
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