3dfx FXT1 Technology

\"America Online 2000 Limited Edition\" supports TEXTURE COMPRESSION!!!

\"America Online 2000 Limited Edition\" supports - frame rate is most important
- fill rate is most important (now)

\"America Online 2000 Limited Edition\" is is shaking in their boots.. !

You guys are high on crack if you think 3dfx or Nvidia checks this website for user input.

Why you crying Mr. VP of Marketing for 3dfx?
*sniff* \"Because some bastard called us homo\'s on shugashack, boo-hoo\"

http://www.planetquake.com/editorials/pixels-1.shtm

thats why I\'m bitter....I\'m not really bitter, I just like being pissed off, and I also like talking about 3d tech, and I\'ve finaly found a way to combine the two into a new art form I call Chinese Throwing Star 3D Ranting-Fu

NightHawk

A lot of you guys are confusing the implementation of texture compression, and the usage of large textures in the game.

If you take Quake3 and force it to run with S3TC, you get... Quake3 just like it was before.

If you take quake3 and make gigs of textures for it THEN support S3TC, you get to use all those pretty textures without needing 128MB of video memory.

Don\'t companies just build texture compression into their drivers anyway? Sure UT \"supports\" S3TC, but is that because they had to program S3TC crap into the engine, or is that a PR way of saying they are including another CD full of huge ass textures?

#28 I bet the people at nvidia/3dfx/s3 all get a kick out of reading all these lame posts

Let me ask you this. Who buys the cards?? You think 3dfx does not want customer aproval?

Pull your head out of your ass.

Hey why are you bitchin?! it\'s has a better compression ratio than S3TC, it supports GLIDE, OGL, D3D. 3dfx provides free tools. It\'s Open Source.

What more could you ask for?

Propaganda? In the real world this is called aggressive marketing.
And in the real world, the nice guys finnish last!

Dont listen to them #9, you rock.

holy shit, does anyone else see through the marketing? \"Also, it\'s cross-platform, cross-API, and completely open source. \"
They go for buzzword #1 with cross-platform. nVidia and s3 are crossplatform too! with support for X11, NT, 9x to name a few. Ok, so thats just a minor one, but they are warming up for the kill!
Cross-API!! omg, its cross, but not platform, its a new one! I want to see nVidia claiming their T&L unit as cross-api now, just to make it all fair and even. By cross-api they could mean as little as glide and directX, Idont even know if D3D will suport this, I remember something about ms only including one (s3tc) compression tech in DirectX. But lets assume it really is \"cross-api\" its still a steaming pile of marketing. Which leads them to the headshot
OPENSOURCE! holy christ! THEY DIDNT GO FOR \"SAVING THE WHALES\" OR \"FEED THE CHILDREN\" OR EVEN \"WORLD PEACE\"!! THEY HAD TO DROP THE H-BOMB OF MARKETING! OPEN SOURCE! OMFG!!! YOU MEAN THEY WILL RELEASE THE SPECS FOR THE COMPRESSION SO ANYONE CAN INCORPORATE IT INTO THEIR GAME AND THEN THEY CAN SAY, \"OH, LOOK THIS GAME INCORPORATES *OUR* TECHNOLOGY!!! where is the open sourcing of the circut designs for incorporating this into a chip? it is GPL ofcourse right? YEAH THANKS 3DFX FOR THE MARKETING RIM JOB!!

Well, heres hope\'n to see what kinda propaganda nVidia will spew about the gheyforce256 in response to this..my bet is a return of prayer to schools!

my two lemon flavoured cents (bitter for you kiddies out there)

NightHawk =]

Well #9 you since you love your tnt2 ultra good thing 3Dfx had a card out there... otherwise you\'d have paid $300-$350 for it and it would just now be in the $275 range...
you idiots dont understand competition...
look at AMD and INTEL..
intel is shaking in their boots..
look at the massive price cuts in the last 2 months...
they made more price cuts in the past 2 months than they have in 2 years.. (not true but ya get the poing)
I hope this compression is cool compared to that s3 shit..

#14 have you seen S3TC on a Savage? no? Oh, ok then, feel free to put your foot in you mouth now.

#9, OMG! get some therapy!

Why can\'t 3dfx just die? Screw them, bloody lack-luster excuse of a company. I\'m happy that on my new puter I\'ll have a TNT2, I hate this card, mostly because 3dfx\'s Banshee drivers are buggy and they dont bother making them work quite properally, at all...

3dfx generally sucks anyway. Homos, I tell you, Homos! Not that I\'m homophobe or anything, wait... No they can\'t be homos because they make all the colors look dull and crappy... NVidia would be homos then... Matrox even more so... Dear god! The graphics industry is just a bunch of homos!

OMG... actually a new technology from 3dfx! Wow!

Okay so the texture compression ratio is better, but how bad is the image quality as a result?

-CP