The Demise of 3dfx

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  So who is playing the role of Nvidia to 3dfx ? The up-and-comer who doesn't have the speed, but has a bet... : Downforce
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    Bitboys? Matrox would have a shot at it if they did some major revamping to the Parhelia (mainly memor... : Toraz Chryx
    • Nothing wrong w/ Parhelia that an extra 300 Mhz couldn't fix, eh? : mrtony
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      is it really memory bandwidth thats the problem with the parhelia? i thought it had some absurd amount of... : marku5
      • the Fragment AA is _very_ memory bandwidth efficient (which is why it hardly slows down with it enabled),... : Toraz Chryx
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        I read somewhere that the problem with parhelia was its triangle setup engine. : driller
        • I read somewhere that nobody is really sure what the hell the problem is with the Parhelia, it just mirac... : davew2040
      • Parhelia lacks z-compression and any kind of hidden surface detection, among other things. Both Nvidia an... : diehlr
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    "The up-and-comer who doesn't have the speed, but has a better featureset.... ATI ? " Wha? Where have... : mrtony
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      Umm... and the drivers aren't that bad anymore. : freshview
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        Maybe not, but I've heard enough gripes about the 9700 drivers recently that I'm holding off buying one. ... : mrtony
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          ah, I hadn't heard about that... My 8500 worked perfectly out of the box.... : freshview
          • I'm just talking about the 9700 now... I wouldn't really hesitate to buy an 8500. : mrtony
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        Bullshit. There are posts EVERY DAY about ATI griping about it not working. : Cygnus X-1
        • That could be read two ways. One is very funny. :) : diehlr
        • There are "My nvidia drivers fucked up" posts too ya know... : Toraz Chryx
    • For your tenebrae thing yesterday... from the tenebrae site (http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net/): When w : bigimp
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    According to carmack the 3dlabs/creative drivers for the P10 are rock solid and kick ass. Are you sure yo... : UTSD3DSUCKS
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      I'm sure all the management at ATI is furiously taking notes now. Thank god SOMEONE knew what to do.... : freshview
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        Maybe they should be. : mrtony
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          it seems highly unlikely. ATI by and large, seems to have a fairly good idea of what they're doing. Th : freshview
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            I can't believe I'd ever see anybody sticking up for ATi. Guys, back when I bought my TNT2, a friend b... : 0Wingfan
            • "Maybe they've gotten their shit together, and decided to "target gamers" and make good product. But I'd ... : UTSD3DSUCKS
            • The 8500 card is the first one I bought from ATI ('cause it was faster than a GeForce 3 and cheaper than ... : freshview
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            Fresh you mean cheap? After all that is what they are known for, better price tags, period. Were the POS ... : UTSD3DSUCKS
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              I have not had any problems with my 8500 whatsoever. My friend, however had to wait a week before he c... : freshview
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                lol ATI Catalyst - CRASH IN nwn [still not stable in toolset, likely never will be], CAUSE bsod IN xp,... : UTSD3DSUCKS
                • CAUSE bsod IN xp INFINITE LOOP ERROR IN NV4_DISP.DLL : Toraz Chryx
    • you want to talk about people that should be fired, people that write creative drivers, or design their p... : Turd Ferguson
  • The BitBoys are coming! : Topaz

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• I hope not, I gave mine away : magila

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• yeah, wtf is up with it being released now : archon

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• Card brand doesn't matter. It's the drivers. Install 3dfx reference drivers. : SlimJim

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  nah, that's 3DR : KinetiK
  • Ouch! That's gotta hurt.... : UTSD3DSUCKS

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  Ever work with the Rendition Verite? : Sylvanus
  • Not for a long time - probably was back in the old hexen2 days, if I'm thinking of the right hardware. : rickmus
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  I Wonder how much I could get on Ebay for my Voodoo 5 5500 : Cygnus X-1
  • I will get millions for my Monster Voodoo 1 : IcomeINpeace
  • Considering I got two of them, free I can't imagine much. : baron calamity
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    If you have some cash to spare, get this $0.01: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=20563... : rickmus
    • Hmmm.... paperweight it is then! : Cygnus X-1
  • I'd give you $10 for it... heh... : The_FrO
  • AGP or PCI? No one would really want an AGP one, but some people would be looking to pick up PCI ones sin... : Cless

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• Did the other black kids beat you? Much? ;) : Grigory

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• You mean like ALL Firing Squad "articles?" : Dechter

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  it was linked on slashdot : Maarten Goldstein
  • So, both. : Deathlove
• trying to get the quake 3 screenshots took about 5 billion tries : Downforce