3dfx Interview

Fuck you guys, this isn't worth arguing any more.

You literally sound like a bunch of babies...thinking that a bunch of polygons is going to make a game good.

Those of you who think this are dumbasses, all of you. You guys have obviously forgotten your roots...you're no longer true gamers. Have fun staring at those polygons in Q3:A, fools...

39: dude it's totally been established that Daikatana will be bundled with "The Card Formerly Known as Glaze3D."

And all this for only ninety nine ninety fie... Delivered on the backs of the cutest flying piggies you ever did see.

GeForce owners who always post on _any_ 3dfx news must be some of the most insecure bunch of low-brow unknowledgeable idiots I've ever come across. What drives you people to diss 3dfx news? Maturity check! You don't see me posting on degrading unsubstantiated opinions on nVidia, ATI or Matrox news. Do I *hate* any of those companies? Nope. At least I haven't seen any v5=Daikatana crap. Then again, I haven't scrolled down all the way yet. But do you see me running my mouth off about how features I haven't seen for myself suck? Sheesh.

Who really cares about anti-aliasing in old games anyway. They're going to have low texture detail, low polygon graphics anyway. Aliasing would be the least of your worries on those games. It seems like most of the games 3dfx is talking about are year+ old games like Shogo and Falcon 4. You buy cutting edge technology to play today's cutting edge games, not yesteryear's...

IMO the only use for AA is if you have a shitty monitor.

Playing in 640x480 with FSAA is a small but noticeable step up from no AA. However it's still blurry and the textures still look like crap because the screen is still in 640x480!

And if you have some big p1mping monitor, are you going to play in 1024x768 with FSAA? fUck no, you're going to play in 1600x1200 you bastard!

So yeah if you're playing something like Q1 or Q2 on a monitor that's limited to 1024 then AA will be a nice touch. But real resolution, just like real frames per second, will always win.

And just so people don't think I'm taking sides... you know if v5s have killer fill rate you CAN get that real resolution on them. I'm just recommending that... IMHO of course.

I'd like to try a v5500 but this close to release and STILL no reference boards out for review. I think they're just afraid all the reviews will say " eh, it's ok, it's a little faster, it looks ok visually" and that would kill their sales. If they dont release any to reviewers, they will sell a SHITLOAD of them the first day (we all know lots of people will jump on them sight unseen), and even if the reviews are bad, people wont get to see a review till 3 months later in paper magazines and at least a week later in online magazines. By then, they will have sold a crapload to early apodters and of course the reviews will have no effects on people who buy things because of the name. I bought a rendition v1000 when it was the baddest thing out there. I bought a voodoo1 when it was, a rendition 2x00 , then a voodoo2, kept the voodoo2 (with a matrox g200 main card) until the day the voodoo3's hit the shelves. Was extremely happy with the voodoo3 until i could get my hands on a geforce DDR and am extremely happy with it. I'm an early adopter myself and have always been happy with 3dfx stuff BUT I AM NOT buying a v5500 until I see a crapload of reviews saying its "da shit" AND that its 32-bit color looks good. I have YET to see a 32-bit color screenshot from a VSA chip board unless those crappy looking screens shown so far are 32-bit, they sure as hell dont look it. I just fired Homeworld up again to be sure and those Homeworld FSAA shots are nowhere near as good-looking (colorwise) as my geforce.

I hate to defend 3dfx here, but we've survived pretty well with 16 and 32-meg video cards for a while now. 64? Whatever. The only thing you could use it for is larger textures...and who here is actually planning on staring at walls? Even the Voodoo2 12meg (on a fast enough computer) can handle detail textures in Unreal Tournament, for example...that looks crisp enough for me just at a glance.

There comes a time when new technology isn't actually applicable or useful (for now, at least...I know better than to say it'll never be useful..."64k will be enough for anyone" is dead wrong, just as I would be eventually if I was talking in a longer time frame anyway), sorta like FSAA and all of the other 3dfx bullshit (imho) features that 3dfx is offering.

In answer to the graphics and gameplay issue, where do you get that not having huge textures is "crap graphics"? we all know these cards arent going to keep up with technology more than a year anymore, the game companies and videocard/cpu makers are scratching each others back with regards to better hardware/new features in software that require the new hardware. So what if the v5500 cant run that ONE level at max detail without a fps drop? by the time EVERY game has texture use like that we'll all be talking shit about the rampage2, not the v5.

13: Yeah I'm doing just fine... However ICQ won't connect, and I can't even PING anything in the icq.com or mirabilis.com domain. At least from mine and roomie's comps. My research shall continue however.

*DinK*

I may buy one of these if the 2d is razor sharp like matrox.

Man, I just can't relate to the problems yall have had. I had a v2 with NO problems at all.. and my v3-3000 has been flawless! (well, no 32-bit color, but hey, that's a "feature", right?)

I feel for yas.. I'd been extremely happy with my tdfx products up to this point. They've ALWAYS performed as expected

Umm... excuse me but the V5 is real 64mb unified RAM...

- Val

Still cant figure out when I went from having 3dfx as my primary 3d accelerator to nVida, makes me wonder... or not. whoever is the fastest at puttin the frames on my monitor for quake is who gets my money.

8: Well you figure if the V5 has two chips that each have access to the 166MHz memory on the board (I think it's 166) then that's not a whole lot more bandwidth than a DDR GeForce. Especially considering I can clock the memory on mine to like 370 before any problems. 370 is bigger than 166x2. =)

Oh and a 64MB geforce has hella more texture storage than any voodoo5 will.

*DinK*

fuX0r v5!
i want a geforce ddr 64mb.

correction: mini-wowzers