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"Eric Busch" wrote
Tim
> % I agree it's time for Papy to move on, but their jumping back and forth
> % between proprietary API's doesn't impress me as being proof that they
> % predict the future worth a crap. They chose A3D rather than EAX/DirectX
> % which will end up costing me some more money, since Aureal is now extinct.
> Which is why it makes sense to support D3D and OpenGL with N4.... No
> chip specific hardcoded support. If coded properly and effeciently,
> with faster CPU's and video cards, they made the correct choice.
> Especially since you point out that Papy has usually chosen the correct
> hardware to support (for features and speed, etc.), but end up backing
> the dinosaur hardware in the end (Rendition, A3d, etc.)....
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blocks are contained in current D3D code because of bugs in D3D drivers,
additionally implementing a clean Glide version of a game is still a
good
thing, esp. considering the number of 3dfx cards out there.
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> How do you know?
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On Wed, 10 May 2000 20:24:38 -0500, "Tracey A Miller"
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>"Eric Busch" wrote
>> Err... no.
> How do you know?
> <G>
> "Eric Busch" wrote
> > Err... no.
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> > How do you know?
> > <G>
> > "Eric Busch" wrote
> > > Err... no.
> Ouch...:-)))
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V1000? 2D? The V1000 had no 2D!!! Just like the V2, it was a drop-in card
that sat next to your old video card! My guess is you must be thinking
about that POS combo card they made for a while, sorta like the
Banshee...what was it, the Rush? That reeked to high heaven. The first
good combo Voodoo card was the Voodoo3.
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So why does the Grand Prix Legends OpenGL rasterizer run like a blocked
drain when compared to the Voodoo and Rendition rasterizers?
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"I've got to admit it's getting better."
> > Does my new Voodoo 3 card also support Direct3D? I see that my DirectX
> > Diagnosis program says that my Direct3D is showing "No problems".
> No. Your Voodoo3 will do D3D also. But, as F1 2000 shows, D3D is not
> as good as Glide.
The Direct3D API is what 99.9% of new games aim for, and what 99.9%
of reasonable 3D accelerators support. The main OSs, Win 9x and 2000 also
support Direct3D.
Do developers have any choice? No.
Papy will have learned from GPL that it is a mistake to go for a
proprietary system (e.g. Glide) and so they need to keep things as open as
possible.
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>V1000? 2D? The V1000 had no 2D!!! Just like the V2, it was a drop-in card
>that sat next to your old video card! My guess is you must be thinking
>about that POS combo card they made for a while, sorta like the
>Banshee...what was it, the Rush? That reeked to high heaven. The first
>good combo Voodoo card was the Voodoo3.
Tim
: > That leaves it as just a plain old mistake, since the V1000's 2D
: > performance was lousy (especially VGA), and the 3D performance was
: > mediocre.
: V1000? 2D? The V1000 had no 2D!!! Just like the V2, it was a drop-in card
: that sat next to your old video card! My guess is you must be thinking
: about that POS combo card they made for a while, sorta like the
: Banshee...what was it, the Rush? That reeked to high heaven. The first
: good combo Voodoo card was the Voodoo3.
You must have mistakened the V1000 for the Voodoo. The V1000 is the internal name of
Rendition's first Verite chip, much like NV4 is TNT.
GM
Steve
> V1000? 2D? The V1000 had no 2D!!! Just like the V2, it was a drop-in
card
> that sat next to your old video card! My guess is you must be thinking
> about that POS combo card they made for a while, sorta like the
> Banshee...what was it, the Rush? That reeked to high heaven. The first
> good combo Voodoo card was the Voodoo3.
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> "The time has come for me to kill this game
> Now open wide and say my name"
> - "Space Lord", Monster Magnet
Agreed. There is no reason for a company to tie themselves solely to
any proprietary API. But to not include it as one *option*, they are
then in a way turning their backs on legions of their faithful
followers, many of whom own Voodoo3 cards. And as many other posts here
tonight show, there are a lot of these same Voodoo3 owners drooling at
the prospect of upgrading to the V5. From a PR standpoint, I still say
their poised with a woody in their hands. ;-) Not many here are looking
for Glide-only. Are we unreasonable in asking for D3D, OpenGL AND
Glide?
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