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Best 3D card

7 posts by 7 people · 08 Jul 1997 - 19 Jul 1997

Chris Moor 08 Jul 1997#372853

I'm in the market for a new 3D card. Does anybody have suggestions? Thanks for your help. Chris

Rich Sco 08 Jul 1997#372854

Nothing like starting another Computer Holy War: For Rendition accelerated games, Rendition rocks. These include: Nascar 2 Quake Tomb Raider etc 3dfx has a huge base, and supports OpenGL which is superior to D3D. If your main passion is N2, then go Rendition. However, Rendition sucks wth F1GP2 and a lot of other games. Rich

Gene Mille 08 Jul 1997#372855

> I'm in the market for a new 3D card. Does anybody have suggestions? > Thanks for your help. > Chris Get a Hercules Stingray 128/3d. It has the new Voodoo Rush chipset AND a screamin' DOS/Windows accelerator on the same card

Popp 10 Jul 1997#373000

I would not say it "sucks" with non rendition games. It does "suck" in regular VGA mode that is a know problem, but to say that it "sucks with F1GP2 and a lot of other games" doesn't seem to have any merit at all. In SVGA the Rendition does just fine! BTW GP2 runs fine on my rendition card!

Luke Phillips 11 Jul 1997#373067

Goto Pieters Gp2 page, and you will see that video card makes hardly any difference to GP2

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> >I'm in the market for a new 3D card. Does anybody have suggestions? > >Thanks for your help. > >Chris > Nothing like starting another Computer Holy War: > For Rendition accelerated games, Rendition rocks. These include: > Nascar 2 > Quake > Tomb Raider > etc > 3dfx has a huge base, and supports OpenGL which is superior to D3D. > If your main passion is N2, then go Rendition. However, Rendition > sucks wth F1GP2 and a lot of other games. > Rich

Mark Davison 15 Jul 1997#373338

> I'm in the market for a new 3D card. Does anybody have suggestions? > Thanks for your help. > Chris I've just upped from rendition and added a Righteous 3D (3Dfx Voodoo). If you can live without accellerated N2 and ICR2 go for 3Dfx. No contest. Not even in the same league (I'm speaking from experience). If you -need- those two games then you gotta get rendition (one that's bundled with ICR2) as it looks like they'll never see the light of day on other cards. You want to look for good D3D performance and plenty native support. No card has as good a combination of those factors as 3Dfx. There you go. Mark Reading, UK

Richard Cheetam, JR 19 Jul 1997#373592

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> > I'm in the market for a new 3D card. Does anybody have suggestions? > > Thanks for your help. > > Chris > Get a Hercules Stingray 128/3d. It has the new Voodoo Rush chipset AND a > screamin' DOS/Windows accelerator on the same card

I have the Hercules Stingray 128/3d video card and now can't load NASCAR2. Other then that it is a very good card.