in Superbike (awesome sim!), and seems to do fine in Mechwarrior 3 (got to
do something other than drive once in a while).
I have learned from many years, many sports and MANY dollars that at times
the cutting edge cuts.
JM
> Well, I'm only writing this because I am a little frustrated
> with EA and the Voodoo3. Now, I do understand that when new hardware is
> unveiled that there is some time needed for adaptation in the form of
> patches etc. However, such companies like EA, Microsoft etc. have had
> this new hardware long before us consumers have had a chance to even
> even see a screen shot of the new hardware and have had 'ample' amount
> of time to fix these bugs that are occurring with the Voodoo3 and EA
> titles. Now call it coincidental but after getting my new V3 2000, the
> first title I tried was NHL 98 and kept getting kicked back to the
> desktop. Then for weeks I've been reading reviews,articles and so forth
> about Super bike World Championship so I D/L the demo to take a look at
> this gem of a title (not being sarcastic ;) and guess what, no go again!
> As my luck turns out, the first 2 titles I wanted to see running on my
> new card and new system (Gateway Celeron466,128 SDRAM,19" mon.,V3 2000)
> do not work with the Voodoo3. My complaint here is not that they don't
> work with the V3, but knowing the popularity of the V3 and past Voodoo
> boards, why do we have to wait for companies to create patches for
> titles to work on our new boards that should have been ready for
> implementation when the board (V3) was released?
> Now, I'm not pointing a finger necessarily at EA but to all
> other company's scrambling to create patches to get the V3 boards to
> work with there software. I think it's very safe to say,based on the
> overwhelming popularity of prior Voodoo boards, that the V3 would be
> very popular in the *** community. Why does it seem to me like
> companies are saying ,"Hey, people are buying the V3 boards, we better
> get working on a patch so the V3 boards work with our software!"?
> I've been along the ride with the release of the original
> Voodoo board,V2 and V3 and have enjoyed it thoroughly. Maybe I'm
> impatient or expecting to much but I simply love EA's accelerated games
> (exc. Nascar) and wish they would have been "ready" for the V3 so we
> could be enjoying all of EA's accelerated games on our new V3 boards.
> I think it was a massive fluke but after repeatedly trying
> to get SBK to run something happened, the screen flickered and the menu
> looked a little distorted and viola, SBK 'was' running on my V3 board
> and I was very,very blown away by what I was seeing. Incredible rider
> realism,dust, graphics and frame rate were amazing. Well, after the race
> ended, I tried to get it to work again and couldn't get it to work. I
> Kept getting booted back to the desktop after clicking the "Race"
> button. I WISH EA had a patch by now for SBK and V3 because what I saw
> was jaw dropping, even at the default 640x480 setting.
> All views here are just my opinion and there's need to flame me. Put
> that damn flame thrower down!!!
> EA, I hope you get a majority of your titles running on the V3 boards,
> were waiting with baited breath!
> Best Regards,
> Tony Gaylord