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Article #700Re: Are there ANY games that use 3DNow *fully* besides Q2?
From: Bill V.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:00
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--------------C82EE635F77E6B31D8E49D47 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Go to this site I have linked here, it has a listing of all games currently using 3D now: The 3DNow! NOW Page joe wrote: > Just bought a TNT card for my old standard Socket 7 Shuttle > HOT-569/K6-2 266 MHz (O/C to 300 MHz) combo & was very displeased to > see that games like Shogo & Blood 2 run like shit through a funnel on > it at 800 X 600. Are there any games besides Q2 that fully take > advantage of 3DNow? I can't believe that with so many under $1000 > K6-2-based systems being sold there isn't better 3DNow support. Until > I can afford to get a Celeron 300A & LX motherboard I'm stuck with > this rather disappointing K6-2 cpu and it's poor FPU performance so I > need all the help I can get in the way of hardware/software > acceleration. > > --joe > > remove nixspam to reply via email --------------C82EE635F77E6B31D8E49D47 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Go to this site I have linked here, it has a listing of all games currently using 3D now: <a href="http://www.3dnow.net/">The 3DNow! NOW Page</a> <p>joe wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Just bought a TNT card for my old standard Socket 7 Shuttle <br>HOT-569/K6-2 266 MHz (O/C to 300 MHz) combo & was very displeased to <br>see that games like Shogo & Blood 2 run like shit through a funnel on <br>it at 800 X 600. Are there any games besides Q2 that fully take <br>advantage of 3DNow? I can't believe that with so many under $1000 <br>K6-2-based systems being sold there isn't better 3DNow support. Until <br>I can afford to get a Celeron 300A & LX motherboard I'm stuck with <br>this rather disappointing K6-2 cpu and it's poor FPU performance so I <br>need all the help I can get in the way of hardware/software <br>acceleration. <p>--joe <p>remove nixspam to reply via email</blockquote> </html> --------------C82EE635F77E6B31D8E49D47--
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,32e6a823c4cc0c95 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,32e6a823c4cc0c95 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public X-Google-Thread: 108f8e,32e6a823c4cc0c95 X-Google-Attributes: gid108f8e,public From: "Bill V." <rcnut@home.com> Subject: Re: Are there ANY games that use 3DNow *fully* besides Q2? Date: 1998/12/22 Message-ID: <367F217B.D1831E89@home.com> X-Deja-AN: 424728587 References: <368010a4.22105567@news.earthlink.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------C82EE635F77E6B31D8E49D47" X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news.rdc1.sfba.home.com 914300832 24.1.97.120 (Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:27:12 PDT) Organization: @Home Network MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:27:12 PDT Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,3dfx.products.voodoo2,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action