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Article #479TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?
From: Lincoln Bauman
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 00:00
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I have to agree with you here, the V2 dithering is noticeably worse than the TNT. A good example is the Unreal level "Dark Arena". With my SLI the sky has very noticeable banding, the TNT has none, both running in 16bit mode. I also recently played the Requiem demo and frankly it looked quite bad on my V2's compared to my TNT. I'm no Nvidia troll, I just call it as I see it. I hope they improve this for the V3, it would be a shame to pass on this cruddy dithering to it. It must be possible, the TNT already has excellent dithering. >Freon wrote: > Voodoo2 image quality in 16bit is poor as well. Voodoo3 screenshots look > exactly like my Voodoo2. The sky and clouds in Unreal is a perfect example. > Notice how it looks like crap on Voodoo2? Well, it doesnt look like that at > all on a TNT or other video card, IN 16BIT. Why is that? People seem to > blame the image quality on the 16bit limitation but that is not true at all. > Other cards in 16bit do not give the same banded, dithered, 8bit looking, > fog, smoke, and blending. It has nothing to do with 16 vs 32 bit.
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