Voodoo5 @ GDC

I\'m fairly anti-3dfx, it started with the banshee, and then the voodoo3. I had a voodoo2, never got up to an SLI rig, but I haven\'t liked 3dfx since the voodoo2 came out.

BUT

I\'m not going to say the new 3dfx cards suck until I see them in action. I bet the nv15 will kick ass all over the place, but until I see solid benchmarks on both cards, I\'m going to reserve judgement.

Wonder what happens when you pull the electric plug from the V5-6000 when it\'s in action. Does the puter just freeze until you plug it back in or will the whole system nuke itself?

I\'m gonna hold onto my GeForce-256 until a more powerful card comes down the line. I spent $300 and I\'m going to get my money\'s worth until some new card utterly destroys it--but that probably won\'t happen until this time next year...

Anon@209.166.17.32

From the article you are quoting...

NOTES: Benchmarked on a Dell 733MHz Pentium III 820 test system (Yes, that means it is AGP 4x). V-Sync is enabled in every benchmark but 3DMark2000.


The numbers are misleading with v-sync enabled.

Spiff

#82,
then play \'pong\' on the internat and STFU.

#78,
Just waitin on the NV15...... gonna blow VD4/5 away.

Man, I just don\'t get you guys who constantly say what a POS the GeForce is, or that you don\'t like T&L or whatever. When I had two voodoo2s in this system, my timedemo at 640x480 (demo002) was 52fps. (my CPU was shit) When I put my GeForce DDR in, with the same CPU, my 640x480 timedemo jumped up to 80, and my 1600x1200 was 58. So yeah, that\'s right, my GeForce did better at 1600x1200 than my SLI did at 640x480, in Q3, tweaked a bit of course. Now I have a regular old P2-450 in here till I get my new parts in, and I can get over 100fps in 800x600 in timedemos so I\'m damn happy with this thing. I mean, I can actually play games in 1600x1200, and something like 1024x768 in 32bit with everything on is quite playable, even though I don\'t bother. (btw I did try turning on everything I could at 1024, including dynamic lights, and I got like 45fps in demo001 on this 450)

O and just in case you all are wondering I have gotten my tnt2 ultra to run and run fast in UT , still not as fast as my sli v2 rig but fast enough where it\'s not a slide show . Still can\'t get the geforce to do it ,can anyone say really stinkin slowwwwwwwwww .

64 you, sir/madam, are a moron. Lets look at DM9.

It uses MANY high res textures that exceed 256x256 ( so 3dfx cards reduce them to fit that size saving a lot of texture ram)

geFORCE uses a 24 bit z-buffer, voodoo 3 uses a 16 bit, thus more RAM for frame buffer

Only at 800 600+, with 32 bit color, and high res textures is this a poblem. If I run in 16 bit, 2nd quality textures 1280 1024 runs at like 50 FPS.

and there you have it folks Geforce bestest open GL card on the planet for now. say it with me open GL GL GL GL,not directx or glide just GL so I guess that sums up the debate geforce has the best open GL and that\'s the ONLY feature it has that\'s the best ,some other cards have better direct x and or glide, but if you play ID games who wants anything else .

no 56. He needs to replace his voodoo 3 with a PB&J!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/butterh.shtml

#51, that might just be because UT is a barely re-worked version of the Unreal engine that won\'t play worth shit on anything but glide.

Explain the face that if you own a creative GeForce card, you can run UT faster with the glide wrapper than you can with any other API.

It\'s NOT the card, stupid.

#57, is this wildfire shit going to get as bad as Brutal\'s fucking clock?

what a minute duke ,don\'t stand straight up yet.

I got more then 25 FPS in UT...it was like 28

#51: that\'s totally fucking epic\'s fault, They have native glide support for UT, Every other game (except tribes), that has a good, pure opengl implementation works better on a geForce (Quake, Quake2, Quake3)...

#42 I haven\'t got a clue , so tell me what\'s the mutant thing about.

#41

I bought a Geforce.. its the fastest card currently available and has the highest fillrate currently available.

For some reason, I don\'t feel like I\'ve been fucked.