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Article #31Re: Let's sort this out.
From: Phil Webb
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 00:00
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In article <3684F0C1.7F58BD21@pontyraled.freeserve.co.uk>, BrucieMoose@pontyraled.freeserve.co.uk says... > Okay, okay. Does anybody know what *the best* 3D accelerator is? There > must be one, surely? Or, does the performance of a 3D card depend on the > system it's running on? Of course it depends on the rest of the systems components, but it also depends on your criteria for devising the *BesT* 3D accelerator. For Quake and other GLide based games, Voodoo2 is still unsurpassed speedwise, given a hefty enough CPU, but TNT is not far behind, and has a better quality of image, will support higher resolutions, 3D in a window, and will even outrun the V2 on some DirectX based games. Both is prolly the best option, TNT as a primary card, coupled up to a couple of V2's 8^�
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 115277,b53ab18335cdc2e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid115277,public X-Google-Thread: 11497a,b53ab18335cdc2e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid11497a,public From: phil.webb@i.am (Phil Webb) Subject: Re: Let's sort this out. Date: 1998/12/26 Message-ID: <MPG.10ef2721d361c04f989842@news.clara.net> X-Deja-AN: 426010025 References: <3684F0C1.7F58BD21@pontyraled.freeserve.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@clara.net X-Trace: nnrp2.clara.net 914708847 195.8.77.185 (Sat, 26 Dec 1998 21:47:27 BST) Organization: Overlord NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 21:47:27 BST Newsgroups: uk.games.computer.quake,freeserve.games.quake