Opinions on Rendition vs. Virge/VX?

Seems like there are many 4 meg cards with these chips for around $200. What are the advantages and disadvantages of these cards? Regards and thanks

>Seems like there are many 4 meg cards with these chips for around $200. >What are the advantages and disadvantages of these cards? Virge sucks (no question about that). Rendition almost sucks, but only compared to Voodoo. It's saving grace is that ICR2 and Nascar Racing are written for it, so it's hovering just above the sucks line. Voodoo is king of performance, but ICR2 and Nascar Racing aren't written for it, so it sucks in that regard - again, just above the sucks line. /===================================================\ | John Simmons (Redneck Techno-Biker) | | http://www2.connectnet.com/users/jms/index.html | \===================================================/

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>> Virge sucks (no question about that). >> Rendition almost sucks, but only compared to Voodoo. It's saving grace > etc... >Any chance of some constructive comments on this? >we are not talking about ice-lollies are we?

The "suck factor" is a sliding scale of quality used by American computer users everywhere, and is based on a somewhat skewed mix of personal experience, rumor processing skills, and general satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with past software/hardware from the given manufacturer. Ice lollies? Follow the comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video newsgroup. Anyone that bought the Virge is regretting it now because few (if any) new games are being written for the card and it's performance is quite slow. Don't ask for numbers because I'm not rich enough to buy every card on the market and do a side-by-side comparison for you. Basically, picking a 3D card is a two step process. 1) See what card your favorite games are being ported too. 2) Buy that card. The Voodoo has better performance numbers under DOS and lets you keep your old VGA card. It's just plain a better 3D implementation. The only problem with it (for me) is that ICR2 doesn't run on it, NCR2 won't run on it, and Quake doesn't run on it. Descent is supposed to run on it, but that might be a moot point because the Win95 (Direct3D) version will be out soon and it won't matter what card you have in your system. So, I got (for now) the Intergraph Reactor because of ICR2 and NCR2. Maybe at the beginning of the year, I'll get a Voodoo to go with it for playing Direct3D games under Win95, or maybe something better will be out. Are you happy now? Have you been able to make an informed descision based on my opinionated facts? Didn't think so. /===================================================\ | John Simmons (Redneck Techno-Biker) | | http://www2.connectnet.com/users/jms/index.html | \===================================================/

Any chance of some constructive comments on this? we are not talking about ice-lollies are we? Dannie Rose

:)))) I strongly disagree. On the word 'American'. EleeTe D00dz, FidoNet and the Internet made it so nowadays about half the Russian computer people use only two words to evaluate hardware/software: 'rulez' and 'sux'. And non-nerds are, you guessed it - 'lamerz' :) I remember reading a post where a guy proposed to redefine the cuaa interface to replace in Windows forms the 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons with 'Rulez!' and 'Must Die!'. Sorry for the offtopic but I couldn't help it. Karim