supporting either D3D or OpenGL. So if you don't have any games now or
non-Glide card.
>I'd buy that view, IF I didn't see TONS of these posts, about GPL, Tribes,
>NR99, Longbow 2, F15 and many, many other games that aren't THAT old that
>people can't run right without Glide support. These folks scream about
>wanting a patch, and then scream when it still doesn't work right. An
>OpenGL patch WOULD work on these games if the cards had PROPER OpenGL
>drivers, and not ones meant only for Quake / Quake2. D3D and OpenGL ARE
the
>SoundBlaster Compatible of today, but as back then, sometimes you still
need
>THE SoundBlaster and not a substitute, and that is 3dfx / Glide.
>There are easily 20 games on my shelf that need, or work much better with,
a
>3dfx card. If that isn't the case for someone, or they already have a
>Voodoo2, then the TNT2 is a great deal - but only if they analyze whether
it
>plays the games they want to play beforehand. It is pretty lame for people
>to buy a card, knowing it doesn't support a game they play, and then
>***ing to the game company about why it doesn't work - it was the
>CONSUMER'S fault, not the company's. If they play a LOT of GPL or NASCAR,
>and many here do, then it's their fault if it doesn't run on their card,
not
>Papy's. I, and many others, play many games that are over 6 months old, so
>I think the compatibility rating drops much more than 1 % for the TNT2 for
>most people. If you only play some shooters, knock yourself out and don't
>worry about it.
>And really, if they get some driver bugs worked out and speed up their
>OpenGL implementation, the Matrox G400 will the best card out. It wipes
the
>floor with everything else in D3D from all the benchmarks I've seen.
>--
>Ken's Sig 3.0
>"Who is the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?" -
Obi-Wan
>Kenobi
>Go #43 and #44!
>volksy (at) geocities (dot) com
>volksy (at) yahoo (dot) com
>>hmm, you make it sound like 3Dfx has such a margin of compatibility
>>supperieority. GPL is the only one I know of. (Not to say they aren't out
>>there, but in recent game (1999 or newer) you are pretty much guerenteed
>D3D
>>support.
>>Now If the OpenGL drivers seem to work so well with any game that supports
>>it out of the box, but games that take a patch don't seem to work well.
But
>>somehow that is the fault of the companies making the drivers? It sounds
>>like the patches have been of lesser quality than those that fcame right
>>from the box.
>>The TNT2 is the best card on the market and just because poor selling GPL
>>dosn't support it, dosn't even take a % off a compatibility rating, 1 year
>>ago I would agree rthat 3dfx is the way to go, but glide just isn't a
>>requirement for games anymore. D3D is really the soundblaster compatable
>you
>>refer to.
>>>No, it's the people who don't follow a very simple mantra are the ones
who
>>>"dropped the ball"
>>>Buy ALL *** hardware to SUPPORT the games you RUN. Extremely simple.
>>It
>>>was true back in the "100% Sound Blaster Compatible" (NOT) soundcard era,
>>>and is true today. I've heard all this complaining about "Company X not
>>>supporting my YZ Whizbang card" stuff for the last 10 years, and it is
NOT
>>>Company X's fault - it's the consumer who wants to believe hype about
>>>hardware without paying attention to compatibility. My Soundblaster may
>>not
>>>have done some of the stuff those other cards did, but I NEVER had to
wait
>>>for a patch for a game to work with it - much the same with my 3dfx cards
>>>today.
>>>IF for whatever reason a non-3dfx card is best for you and the majority
of
>>>your games, then you buy that KNOWING that GPL is one that WON'T support
>>it,
>>>and have to just DEAL WITH IT, instead of whining about Papy and them not
>>>being omniscient about what hardware is going to be like in 2 years back
>>>when they started.
>>>Plus, the fact that GPL and many other games with OpenGL patches don't
>work
>>>that well is that the card makers don't have good drivers for it, they
>only
>>>are really concerned with Quake, etc. with those OpenGL drivers, if
>>anything
>>>else works on it than it's a plus.
>>>--
>>>Ken's Sig 3.0
>>>"Who is the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?" -
>>Obi-Wan
>>>Kenobi
>>>Go #43 and #44!
>>>volksy (at) geocities (dot) com
>>>volksy (at) yahoo (dot) com
>>>>>Path:
>>>>>> Their decisions were sound.
>>>>>Absolutely.
>>>>No way. a 2 year game path is completely typical, i'm afraid. Papy
>dropped
>>>the
>>>>ball, where many others did not.
>>>>Z.
>>>>Please remove NOSPAM from my email address when replying.
