3DFX II

How much of a difference is there between the 3DFX I and the 3DFX II 8 meg and 12 meg cards. I have a Pentium 233 MMX 32 megs of ram and a 3DFX I 4 meg video with a 3D Blaster primary card. Will the 3DFX make a big difference in NHRA or not. Please don't tell me how much this game sucks. I think its a good game,not excellent but good. Looking forward to the patch that will make it load faster. Dave

You'll probably see a 15-20% increase in fps with a voodoo2. Maybe some more with DX6 and Glide3. Even more if you had a PII. Also consider upgrading memory to 64 which sould help loading times. Arthur s t e a l t h r a c i n g http://www.***sys.com/stealthracing.html

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>How much of a difference is there between the 3DFX I and the 3DFX II 8 >meg and 12 meg cards. I have a Pentium 233 MMX 32 megs of ram and a 3DFX >I 4 meg video with a 3D Blaster primary card. Will the 3DFX make a big >difference in NHRA or not. Please don't tell me how much this game >sucks. I think its a good game,not excellent but good. Looking forward >to the patch that will make it load faster. >Dave

I've heard that the voodoo II only makes a difference depending on theprocessor. In other words, if you just have a pentium, and switch cards, you will see a negligible difference. But if you have a pentium II 400 mhz, the difference between 1 and 2 is big. Personally, I had a pentium 2 266 and switched just for the sake of switching, but I saw little performance gain, but heck, I was already getting awesome frame rates as it was, so it is hard to tell if it worked or not.

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>How much of a difference is there between the 3DFX I and the 3DFX II 8 >meg and 12 meg cards. I have a Pentium 233 MMX 32 megs of ram and a 3DFX >I 4 meg video with a 3D Blaster primary card. Will the 3DFX make a big >difference in NHRA or not. Please don't tell me how much this game >sucks. I think its a good game,not excellent but good. Looking forward >to the patch that will make it load faster. >Dave

You're getting 1024x768 with a single V2?? Is this something that the game supports??? Who made the drivers for your 3dfx card??

> >Another thing to always remember is that the V II allows 800 X 600 and 1024 X 768. I'd > >guess the V II gives a better frame rate at 800 X 600 than a V I at 640 X 480. Replays in > >GPL at 1024 X 768 with all graphics on with my 200mmx is stunning! :))) > You're getting 1024x768 with a single V2?? Is this something that the > game supports??? Who made the drivers for your 3dfx card?? The Metabyte Wicked 3D will do up to 1024x1024 thanks to their drivers.

>>Another thing to always remember is that the V II allows 800 X 600 and 1024 X 768. I'd >>guess the V II gives a better frame rate at 800 X 600 than a V I at 640 X 480. Replays in >>GPL at 1024 X 768 with all graphics on with my 200mmx is stunning! :))) >You're getting 1024x768 with a single V2?? Is this something that the >game supports??? Who made the drivers for your 3dfx card?? Good question. I guess I thought you needed 2 V2's for that. -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes.

Another thing to always remember is that the V II allows 800 X 600 and 1024 X 768. I'd guess the V II gives a better frame rate at 800 X 600 than a V I at 640 X 480. Replays in GPL at 1024 X 768 with all graphics on with my 200mmx is stunning! :)))

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> I've heard that the voodoo II only makes a difference depending on > theprocessor. In other words, if you just have a pentium, and switch cards, > you will see a negligible difference. But if you have a pentium II 400 mhz, > the difference between 1 and 2 is big. Personally, I had a pentium 2 266 > and switched just for the sake of switching, but I saw little performance > gain, but heck, I was already getting awesome frame rates as it was, so it > is hard to tell if it worked or not. > >How much of a difference is there between the 3DFX I and the 3DFX II 8 > >meg and 12 meg cards. I have a Pentium 233 MMX 32 megs of ram and a 3DFX > >I 4 meg video with a 3D Blaster primary card. Will the 3DFX make a big > >difference in NHRA or not. Please don't tell me how much this game > >sucks. I think its a good game,not excellent but good. Looking forward > >to the patch that will make it load faster. > >Dave

<snip> <snip> Depends on the game. Can't remember about the GPL demo, don't have it on my new machine, but many games can do 1024x768 on a single V2. The key is whether it uses a "Z-Buffer", if so max on single V2 is 800x600, if not, then you can do 1024x768. Dual V2's can do 1024x768 on everything. Basically the same as V1's, which could run some games at 800x600 without Z Buffer. Ken

Jeff Salzmann wrote You can do this with the standard Diamond drivers. At least in GPL.