Rendition card.. whilch to buy??

Ok.. i know this have been covered about a billion time but i've always disgarded the posts 'cause i havn't been interrested. But now, after the NROS i'm finally thinking of buying a rendition card. I'm currently using a P90, 32 mb ram 'puter for online racing.. What i'm looking for is a card that will give me some better fps on ten - and nothing else... (alltough it would be nice if it will support future Papy sims as well.. (GPL)) Will Creative's 3D BLASTER (PCI) do the works?? (Isn't it rendition based?) Any good advice on what card to choose.. and price ($) if possible .... Thx. -- Ed_ - Norway Cheek Junior Team http//:home.sol.no/solhmrek "Early on, the cars were getting faster and faster. And with good reason: everybody was cheating." - Richard Petty

id say go 3dfx more game covered and 3dfx is making a patch for nascar2!!!!!! it in the works!!! yes!!!! Steve

Buy the Stealth 2. It is cheap and fast. I own one and have no problems with it, it is the best card you can buy for the money right now. And if you want more power down the road, buy the Voodoo2 (when it's released) to go along with the Stealth 2. That's what I am planning to do.

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> Ok.. i know this have been covered about a billion time but i've always > disgarded the posts 'cause i havn't been interrested. > But now, after the NROS i'm finally thinking of buying a rendition card. > I'm currently using a P90, 32 mb ram 'puter for online racing.. > What i'm looking for is a card that will give me some better fps on ten - > and nothing else... (alltough it would be nice if it will support future > Papy sims as well.. (GPL)) > Will Creative's 3D BLASTER (PCI) do the works?? > (Isn't it rendition based?) > Any good advice on what card to choose.. and price ($) if possible .... > Thx. > -- > Ed_ - Norway > Cheek Junior Team > http//:home.sol.no/solhmrek > "Early on, the cars were getting faster and faster. And with > good reason: everybody was cheating." - Richard Petty

-- GTIracer

Get a Diamond Stealth II S220,Its based on the Verite 2100 series.It has equal performance to as 3Dfx card for half the price($100).And is supported by more racing sims than 3Dfx.

If you have little or no money get the Rendition card. If you can afford it, then get 3dfx Don't believe that Rendition can match 3dfx. It can't Note that a Nascar 2 3dfx patch is due out around Xmas time. Also Papyrus is switching to 3dfx glide for Next years upcoming titles Grand Prix Legends and Nascar 3 Take a look at Ubisofts 3dfx Glide implementation of their F1 racing simulation, also check out the 3dfx only implementation of NFS2 SE. Then tell me you want a Rendition !!! To be fair, the new Rendition cards do offer bang for the buck and really should be considered seriously, but 3dfx challengers they are not. Cheers

Hmm... last I heard GPL and future sims are to use Direct3D. -- Eric T. Busch http://ebusch.akorn.net >Also Papyrus is switching to 3dfx glide for Next years upcoming >titles Grand Prix Legends and Nascar 3

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> Hmm... last I heard GPL and future sims are to use Direct3D. > -- > Eric T. Busch > http://ebusch.akorn.net > >Also Papyrus is switching to 3dfx glide for Next years upcoming > >titles Grand Prix Legends and Nascar 3

No further involvment in CART - first bad move No native Voodoo support - second bad move Hopefully we will at least get the Nascar2 3Dfx patch... l8er ronny -- |\ _,,,---,,_ I want to die like my Grandfather, ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ in his sleep. |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Not like the people in his car, '---''(_/--' `-'\_) screaming their heads off!

Well I finally decided and went with the Intergragh Intense 3d ($99 !!! ) . I had heard about some potential compatibility problems with the new 2100 chipsets and 3dfx add on cards so I went with the old 1000 chipset instead . I was pleasantly surprised to find that even in win95 the Intense is faster ( well...1.5 fps according to cbench ) than my old Matrox " Mistake ' 4meg as I had heard that Win95 performance " suffered " with the older rendition cards...and ICR2 is fantastic now !!!!! Just one small problem when quitting ICR2 and exiting MS-DOS mode computer locks on win95 desktop with no icons and I have to Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart . Thanks to all who have shared their opinions pro and con about rendition cards and to groups like "the Simproject " who keep ICR2 young and fresh with cool enhancements... and to those of you who said I was mistaken for not going 3dfx don't worry I will be getting an add on card soon so I'll have the best of both worlds...Bless you all !!!! Long live ICR2 !!!!......and Marc ( Simproject )....hope to see that GTP dashboard soon !!! Steve at RXspeed7 racing -aka- PIRATE(131,33,17)