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Article #684Re: Are there ANY games that use 3DNow *fully* besides Q2?
From: Mike Baker
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:00
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In article <3681c5b0.0@news.mocc.net>, MB <See@signature.com> writes > >Mike Baker wrote in message ... >>In article <75ob35$2e6i$1@news.gate.net>, Rob Fullerton >><robsNOSPAMtv@bigfoot.com> writes >>>The problem lies more in your choice of video card, not the system it is >in. >>>If you had chosen a V2 instead of the TNT, you probably wouldn't be >posting >>>any complaints. >>> >>>The Shuttle 569 is not a super socket 7, and the TNT would be easily >beaten >>>by a Voodoo2 in this system. Add to that the fact that 3DNow! is much >better >>>optimized for the V2. >>> >> >>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. I thought someone had implied that the 3DNow instructions were optimized for Voodoo cards! -- Mike Baker
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,32e6a823c4cc0c95 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public X-Google-Thread: 108f8e,32e6a823c4cc0c95 X-Google-Attributes: gid108f8e,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,32e6a823c4cc0c95 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public From: Mike Baker <mike@surfer-rosa.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Are there ANY games that use 3DNow *fully* besides Q2? Date: 1998/12/24 Message-ID: <KlQpXAAmvlg2EwTX@surfer-rosa.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 425705855 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: surfer-rosa.demon.co.uk:193.237.111.85 References: <368010a4.22105567@news.earthlink.net> <75ob35$2e6i$1@news.gate.net> <OzOlDBACYTg2EwSB@surfer-rosa.demon.co.uk> <3681c5b0.0@news.mocc.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 914583948 nnrp-02:9396 NO-IDENT surfer-rosa.demon.co.uk:193.237.111.85 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,3dfx.products.voodoo2,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action