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Re: Are there ANY games that use 3DNow fully besides Q2?

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From: MB
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 00:00

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Mike Baker wrote in message ...
>>>Would you mind explaining how 3DNow! instructions are better optimized
>>>for the V2?
>>
>>
>>Driver optimizations or possibly the Super7 board.  A K6-2 can only equal
a
>>PII performance in Quake2 with the Voodoo2.
>>Since the Voodoo2 and TNT perform about the same on the same PII, it has
got
>>to be the drivers or the Super7 architecture.
>>
>You mean the Voodoo 2 drivers are optimized for 3DNow, not the other way
>round.

Thats what I said.  The TNT drivers are not, so it's performance does not
come out the same as the Voodoo2 comparison.

>I thought someone had implied that the 3DNow instructions were
>optimized for Voodoo cards!


No.  Well, you never know.

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