3dfx vs NVidia on FSAA

i think the next thing cards will handle is bump mapping and lighting effexts, bump mapping is already in the matrox and looks awsome, it just needs to become mainstream so more games will use it. also some awsome realtime lighting effects could add a lot to the wow factor in games.

and in the end does it matter , no I say , no it does not matter one bit,not even a little tiny bit does any of this matter -----except any publicity is good publicity --------really NUFF SAID.no wait really,really NUFF SAID.

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.

Tech support in the future...

FROM: Software user
TO:  Husband 1.0 Technical Support

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed that
the  new program began making unexpected changes to the accounting software;
severely limiting access to wardrobe, flower and jewelry applications
that operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.  No mention of this phenomenon
was included in the product brochure.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalls many other valuable programs such as:
DinnerDancing 7.5, CruiseShip 2.3, and OperaNight 6.1 and installs new,
undesirable programs such as PokerNight 1.3, SaturdayFootball 5.0, Golf
2.4 and ClutterEverywhere 4.5.   Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and
invariably crashes the system.

Under no circumstances will it run DiaperChanging 14.1 or HouseCleaning
2.6. I\'ve tried running Nagging 5.3, to fix Husband 1.0, but this all purpose
utility is of limited effectiveness. Can you help, please!!!!

The great seer is here! Who wants a glimpse into the future?

\"me me!\", says the brighteyed lad.

Close your eyes my son.
<the great seer attaches some odd device to his head unbeknownst to him>
Now open them.

\"So? Everything looks the same... except for that nekkid chick sitting on my bed.\"

And it was good.
(or something)

my two cents

its kinda rediculous that 3dfx is trying to tear into nvidia for adding \"hacked\" fsaa to their drivers....its not like nvidia is running around trying to convince people that theirs is better or anything - all they are doing is adding a cool new feature to their drivers for the sole sake of their customers who might enjoy it...also, i dont see how 3dfx really has any room to complain about \'hacks\' to begin with...*cough* 22-bit rendring *cough*

just my 2 cents...

3dfx continues to dig it\'s own grave. These drivers are not official, they were LEAKED. Slamming nVidia on leaked drivers and attacking the drivers as using an \"age-old\" was a low thing to do. Hey, isn\'t 3dfx still making cards based on an \"age-old\" chip?

I also find the banshee works well with the wicked mini gl driver.

#51 the v2\'s have 3 dfx\'s drivers with wicked gl mini driver,
For internet play the v2\'s win hands down ,looks real good too
with the wicked gl driver ,the look is almost as pretty as the tnt2 ultra, now if you don\'t have the wicked gl driver you should get them , then compare it with your tnt2 ,I think you will be surprized at how good the v2 looks. um performance wise I have sli which is faster than a single card if you don\'t have sli your tnt2 will be faster.

#37 I mean....

#32
Thats exactly what I was thinking..
If you cant see the jaggies, who gives a fuck how they were eliminated... So it may be slow, but its works and is available...

I know this isn\'t an innovation anymore but, I\'d like to see environmental bump-mapping, or another technology to produce the same effects, become more standard. It\'s not as high on my list as realistic looking poly-models, but it\'s a \"nice-to-have\", like FSAA.

How about a \"gaming acceleration\" card. Create a PCI card that plugs into the machine and provides for specialized calculation of animations, interpolation of movement, physics (including liquids and gasses), AI state machines, etc. through a generic API provided for developers to use to implement these features into their games. You could be smart too, and give the API a backdoor where developers could use their own software implementations instead of the default ones provided with the API.

There\'s still a ton of stuff that would need to get done by the main CPU, but this kind of thing would let people with older machines upgrade their whole PC less frequently, and give people with newer machines more headroom for the performance hits involved with the larger numbers of characters and interactive objects that will appear in massively multiplayer games.

#45 what is your video card of choice? please if it\'s the GeForce,refrain from being a ball buster.Cus I have one too and I don\'t like it.
O and have you ever used a v2?

#36 what\'s to laugh about that\'s what I think .

So now we have S3TC, TnL, & FSAA... (translation: crappy texture compression to squeeze more in cramped quarters, CPU offloaded transformations, and fuzz @ low rez instead of unnoticable jags @ high rez)... and fog, reflection maps, multitextured wow shaders, ...

Besides just the ever increasing raw speed and photorealism, what actual innovations should we look for on the 3d horizon?

onboard physics?
a liquids engine?
what?

What\'s polygonal and planar rasterization? Some 2D acceleration shit?

you know what would be great?
IF THE 5.08 DRIVERS WORKED WITH EVERQUEST

THEY\'RE SO AWESOME AND YET I GET A BLACK SCREEN

I need to get back to norrath
oh god
<sob>
i need..



ah.

Quit whining 3dfx, and either be truely innovative or just fall into the OEM fold and die.

31: they don\'t