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>sorry borut...here goes your stress level again;)
>anyways...i read the readme on v1.1...looks promising.
>Any clues if it will do D3D?
>And when will it see the light of day?

>cheers,
>Dweezil

>  ahhhh but at the time it was coded....D3d was a sad comparision to
>Glide efforts.  D3d has made leaps and bounds, but the fact is, at the
>time the GPL project was in production,  2 V2 sli's were just comming
>out and were king of the hill.
>  So now, to include D3d, might mean an entire code rewrite and
>feature set....that would be costly and time consuming....Probably
>better for the Eidos/Papyrus project planned in a few years...
>"Laura Croft is a Grand Prix Legend."
>two hardware accelerators will be needed....
>dave henrie

> >>Is funny that a game as new as GPL does not support D3D.  3Dfx does not
> >rule
> >>the 3D world anymore.

> >  ahhhh but at the time it was coded....D3d was a sad comparision to
> >Glide efforts.  D3d has made leaps and bounds, but the fact is, at the
> >time the GPL project was in production,  2 V2 sli's were just comming
> >out and were king of the hill.
> >  So now, to include D3d, might mean an entire code rewrite and
> >feature set....that would be costly and time consuming....Probably
> >better for the Eidos/Papyrus project planned in a few years...
> >"Laura Croft is a Grand Prix Legend."
> >two hardware accelerators will be needed....
> >dave henrie

>> Yes, glide is faster then D3D at that time.  Today, it is not costly to
>> setup a system with a celeron 300a to run at 450 MHz.  With such a system
>> running with any of the today's AGP cards--TNT, TNT2, G400, and V3 (V3
>does
>> not support AGP texturing)--and using D3D, there is little slow-down
>> comparing with running in glide.  In fact, you get better image quality
>> using any of the above AGP cards except V3.  Glide supports only 16bit
>> color.  With V3, it is 22bit filtered.  I do hope Papyrus will get
through
>> with a D3D patch.  Even the game Unreal first came out glide only.  Now,
>it
>> is fully D3D optimized.

>> >>Is funny that a game as new as GPL does not support D3D.  3Dfx does not
>> >rule
>> >>the 3D world anymore.

>> >  ahhhh but at the time it was coded....D3d was a sad comparision to
>> >Glide efforts.  D3d has made leaps and bounds, but the fact is, at the
>> >time the GPL project was in production,  2 V2 sli's were just comming
>> >out and were king of the hill.
>> >  So now, to include D3d, might mean an entire code rewrite and
>> >feature set....that would be costly and time consuming....Probably
>> >better for the Eidos/Papyrus project planned in a few years...
>> >"Laura Croft is a Grand Prix Legend."
>> >two hardware accelerators will be needed....
>> >dave henrie

>>sorry borut...here goes your stress level again;)
>>anyways...i read the readme on v1.1...looks promising.
>>Any clues if it will do D3D?
>>And when will it see the light of day?

>>cheers,
>>Dweezil

>>This is all true, but I can play GPL on my Voodoo3, you can't play
>>GPL on your TNT2.

>Uhhhh, wrong.

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>>>says...

>>>>This is all true, but I can play GPL on my Voodoo3, you can't play
>>>>GPL on your TNT2.

>>>Uhhhh, wrong.

>>Creative Lab Unified driver?  Or the glide wrapper?  <G>

>No.  You ever heard of the OpenGL patch for GPL?

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>>says...

>>>This is all true, but I can play GPL on my Voodoo3, you can't play
>>>GPL on your TNT2.

>>Uhhhh, wrong.

>Creative Lab Unified driver?  Or the glide wrapper?  <G>