Re: PS2

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From: Stuffed Crust
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:53

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Eric Johnson <gte944e@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
> are people that know their shit.  Everyone complaining about the PS2 having
> only 4megs of VRAM; who needs more when you've got a bandwidth of 3.2 Gigs/sec
> running through it.  Now I'm not saying that everything else is shit.  I've

It's called texture memory.

More memory == less texture swapping and/or more detailed textures in a
scene == better graphics capabilities.

Why do you think PC graphics cards come with 32, or even 64 megs for
today's high-end cards?  Z-buffers and textures.

 - Pizza
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From: Stuffed Crust <pizza@shaftnet.org>
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Subject: Re: PS2
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