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Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither? id software has the answer mother fuckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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From: Thomas Schamer
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 00:00
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I agree completely.  To those of you who hate me for thinking 3dfx 16 bit
looks better than nVidia 16 bit:  I know that the dithering is better on the
TNT, what I mean is that the Voodoo 2 is brighter and more vibrant in 16 bit
than the TNT is.  However, I do agree that the Voodoo 2 overfilters the
textures.
CHT <tugalot@att.net> wrote in message news:37090CA8.DFEFCFD3@att.net...
> I think that Unreal looks great on my SLI system, I wish someone would
> define shit. Sli looks quite good on about any game I have played. I
> have been unable to see much difference between 32bit and 16bit in any
> games I have tried that support it (MSCFS and Jane's WWII fighters)
> except that in 32bit the game will run nice and slow. I completely agree
> that the TNT does a better job at 16bit dithering than the Voodoo, but
> to say that V2 SLI looks like shit is really absurd and completely ruins
> the credibility of anyone who would spout such bullshit. If the TNT was
> up to par in high res 2D I would have bought one rather than V2 SLI and
> G200, but sadly the TNTs 2D (which does not look like shit) just can't
> compare to the G200 when it comes to image editing applications. I will
> say I would like to get rid of my V2s because they are hot as shit and
> take up two PCI slots, but they certainly don't look like shit, that is
> silly.
>
> Freon wrote:
> >
> > Machiavellian <rruss@ameritech.net> wrote in message
> > news:aIBN2.29211$Ll.3748@nntp0.detroit.mi.ameritech.net...
> > > I have absolutely no ideal what's wrong with your setup but the sky
and
> > > everything else in Unreal look quite good on my SLI setup.  Yes you do
see
> > > some banding in the fog but its not enough to state that the Voodoo is
> > image
> > > is shit or even close. The TNT  definitely looks better in 32 bit but
I
> > > would not even consider playing Unreal in that color depth with the
TNT.
> >
> > Unreal looks no different in 32bit.  At least not that I can see.  In
16bit,
> > there is no banding or any of that with my TNT but there is with my
Voodoo2.
> > Take a screenshot with your SLI.  Or, go look at the ones in the
> > Voodoo3/TNT2 reviews at some web sites.
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From: "Thomas Schamer" <t.schamer@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither? id software has the answer mother fuckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 1999/04/05
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