>Is the Diamond Viper V330 video card the best card for games like
>Hexen II and Grand Prix 2 ?
but it should run OK on the Riva (V330) chipset. Hexen II is OpenGL
accelerated, so you can run it on the Riva but _only_ under Windows NT
at present as there are no OpenGL drivers for W95. If you all you want
to do is play games then add a 3Dfx card to your current system. GP2
will still run on your existing card & anything OpenGL,D3D or Glide
will run on the 3Dfx. Incidentally the 3Dfx will run OpenGl faster too
at present.
As an aside to this the Riva 128 based boards - both the Diamond & STB
are not very mature at present. I would give it a month or so to see
what happens.
To answer your question:- Is the V330 the best card to play games on?
Well, no and perhaps - No if you don't pair it with a 3Dfx board &
'perhaps' if you do!
A number of people who have bought STB v128 (Riva based) have come to
the conclusion that the 3Dfx boards are still the best 3D ***
boards at present. A number of these people have both.
I saw a post earlier where you asked which is the best board for N2 &
GP2. You will have to make a decision here - N2 is accelerated, but
_only_ on rendition verite boards. What is it you _really_ want?. Do
you want a 3D card or a 2D/3D card? Do you have a 2D card? What is it?
Do you want to play N2 above all others? Do you want to play
GLHexen2/Glquake above all others? At present you will need to come to
a decision at what you value above all others. If you go one way, you
will have N2 accelerated, & not GlHexen2 (verite - OpenGl drivers are
supposedly on the way, but they are not going to perform as well as
3Dfx). GP2 isn't really an issue - it is not accelerated, you will get
very little from card to card.
Currently there is no card that does everything well. 3Dfx has
limitations so does Riva (V330), what do you _really_ want and what
can you live without?
Dave