NFS3: No dashboards for <12MB 3d cards

EA's needforspeed.com website states in NFS3's system requirements that "AGP or 8MB of video memory (12MB for Voodoo 2) is required for dashboards in 3d accelerated mode." The wording is clumsy at best, but since I've only got a Monster 3d 1, I'm instantly out of the loop. Leaves a bad taste in one's mouth, doesn't it? Perhaps I'm comparing apples and oranges by bringing to mind flight sims like Longbow 2 or F15, but how is it that these titles have no problem in displaying 2d/3d fully functional***pit graphics while NFS3 needs 12MB for a picture of a dashboard, two animated needles, and a steering wheel? Hmm... For the $270 it would cost for a 3d Blaster 2 I could get Gran Turismo and a Playstation... Or I could just get GPL for that advertised US$25 and save a lot of money. Speed Busters maybe (if I ever find that damn demo)? Martin Nigel Mansell RIP!

Well ,the demo is at www.speedbusters.com

And don't pay $270 for that Voodoo2, you can get a 12 Mb Guillemot card for $159. I agree with you though, what's up with needing all of that texture memory for a dash? Kyle >Well ,the demo is at www.speedbusters.com >> Hmm... For the $270 it would cost for a 3d Blaster 2 I could get >> Gran Turismo and a Playstation... Or I could just get GPL for that >> advertised US$25 and save a lot of money. Speed Busters maybe (if I ever >> find that damn demo)?

I don't know, its odd, because I have a Pure3D Voodoo 1 card that has only 6 megs of ram , and I get the dashboards fine!

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>And don't pay $270 for that Voodoo2, you can get a 12 Mb Guillemot card for >$159. I agree with you though, what's up with needing all of that texture >memory for a dash? >Kyle >>Well ,the demo is at www.speedbusters.com >>> Hmm... For the $270 it would cost for a 3d Blaster 2 I could

get >>> Gran Turismo and a Playstation... Or I could just get GPL for that >>> advertised US$25 and save a lot of money. Speed Busters maybe (if I ever >>> find that damn demo)?

> I don't know, its odd, because I have a Pure3D Voodoo 1 card that has only 6 > megs of ram , and I get the dashboards fine! It's out?? Because in the demo there are no dashboards! l8er ronny -- How to get rid of censorship in German game releases <http://www.gamesmania.com/german/maniac/freedom/freedom.htm> |\ _,,,---,,_ I want to die like my Grandfather, ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ in his sleep. |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Not like the people in his car, '---''(_/--' `-'\_) screaming their heads off!

Second that....dashboards are cool on my ordinary 6mb voodoo 1.

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>I don't know, its odd, because I have a Pure3D Voodoo 1 card that has only 6 >megs of ram , and I get the dashboards fine! >>And don't pay $270 for that Voodoo2, you can get a 12 Mb Guillemot card for >>$159. I agree with you though, what's up with needing all of that texture >>memory for a dash? >>Kyle >>>Well ,the demo is at www.speedbusters.com >>>> Hmm... For the $270 it would cost for a 3d Blaster 2 I could >get >>>> Gran Turismo and a Playstation... Or I could just get GPL for that >>>> advertised US$25 and save a lot of money. Speed Busters maybe (if I >ever >>>> find that damn demo)?

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