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3d card

9 posts by 8 people · 10 Jan 1998 - 15 Jan 1998

Henderso 10 Jan 1998#391453
I am going to get a 3d card, or 3d accerlatrator, which ever, what is the best card out there, for 200 or less, and just for kicks what is the best card out there, I want to be able to play CPR good, and I figure a good 3d card will help me, so what is the best out there for under 200, thanks!!! Nate
I believe the hottest thing right now, at least until the voodoo 2 cards come out, is the Canopus Pure3d 3dfx pass through card. Check it out at http:\\www.canopuscorp.com -- Don Burnette I-65 Racing Dburn on Ten
Victor Chan 11 Jan 1998#391612
Try out Diamond's Multimedia site--http://www.diamondmm.com. I would suggest you to look for 3D accelerator with 3Dfx chipset such as Monster 3D, Voodoo Rush, and Righteous 3D. CPR uses Direct 3D. All 3Dfx not only supports Direct 3D, it can run Quake II, which uses OpenGl and Glide. Depending where you buy, 3D cards like Monster 3D can cost you about $179. -- Victor Chan
Quake II only uses OpenGL, not Glide. -- <<Phoenix>> "Well, we'll find out when we die, won't we?" -me
Joe McGinn 11 Jan 1998#391614
>Quake II only uses OpenGL, not Glide. But like Glide, OpenGL only runs on Voodoo. Joe
OpenGL will run on any OpenGL capable card. PowerVR will run it, Riva will run it. Read up on it at www.planetquake.com/gldojo. OpenGL is like D3D, anyone can use it. Voodoo just happened to be the first consumer level card that had a driver available to run OpenGL, and it runs it best. OpenGL is also for 3D modeling apps, not just games, like Glide. -- <<Phoenix>> "Well, we'll find out when we die, won't we?" -me >>Quake II only uses OpenGL, not Glide. >But like Glide, OpenGL only runs on Voodoo. >Joe
Eric Busch 11 Jan 1998#391616
Bzzzt... thanks for playing. We have some lovely parting gifts for you. NVidia, Rendition, PowerVR (among others) also have OpenGL mini-drivers just like 3Dfx. -- Eric T. Busch http://ebusch.akorn.net >But like Glide, OpenGL only runs on Voodoo.
papa.. 12 Jan 1998#391832
True enough but only extremly recently were any of the others worth a shit and even then only rendition is truly worth a shit...Matter of fact its really only the last month or so that the others got sorted out Riva is not quite there yet, nor is Power Vr quite there yet either. Rendition has been playing Quake1 thru a dedicated port...also only rendition has comparable picture quality. So indeed the game was fun and I enjoyed playing. Pierre
Quoted text (13 lines)>Bzzzt... thanks for playing. We have some lovely parting gifts for you. >NVidia, Rendition, PowerVR (among others) also have OpenGL mini-drivers >just like 3Dfx. >-- >Eric T. Busch >http://ebusch.akorn.net >>But like Glide, OpenGL only runs on Voodoo.
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Urfas 15 Jan 1998#392399
I would definitely recommend the Canopus Pure 3D. It totally rocks with the Voodoo chipset and 6 MB memory and all of that for $179.00! It is available at: www.pure3d.com. Check it out, I think you will be impressed along with the magazines and the majority of the people in this newsgroup. Good Luck! Jeff

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