Shack Voodoo4 Feature

To see AA at work right now, you can fire up the drakan demo with a TNT card and see your FPS drop to about 1 frame/15 seconds. (At least it worked on my roommate\'s computer, and we took screenshots) But what a difference.. wow. It\'s a very cool technology and it WILL be one of the next big thing for cards. (One of them..) 3dfx is not blowing smoke up our asses or pulling the blanket over our eyes. Cards are pushing towards a Toy Story type look and you cant get that look without AA by any means, unless you get INSANE resolutions (like over 4,000 X 3,000?) and most monitors today can barely hit over 2,000 x 1,600 (or whatever that is) much less any 3d cards.

Personally, I\'m most excited about what cards will be like in 5 years. Let 3dfx and Nvidia fight it out until the cows come home.. the biggest winner in all of this is us, the gamers.

To #106:

D3D had no transformation interfaces until version 7. Meaning, you had to do the calculations yourself and then load the custom matrix into the proper position (WORLD, VIEW, etc).

OpenGL has been able to do it both ways. So if developers have been using GL\'s transformation calls (glRotate*, etc), then you will see immediate benefits.

If they calculate their own then load them into OpenGL, then no benefit.

#71: Thats why I put voodoo4 in quotes, i was using that name to refer to what we know about 3dfx\'s next product. I tried to make that clear in my posts, that all my speculation is based on what I know to be true from press releases, and what is a likely direction based on knowledge of business goals, and stated market direction. Its like the people who are saying \"v4\" wont have t&l accel. They have a valid point, because 3dfx has marketed its support for intel\'s SSI, and vice versa.

OK all what about hardware environmental bump maping or whatever its called (the shit that matrox has) is that going to be either on the NV10 or V4? I thought that environmental bump mapping was the shit!! im definately more impressed with the environmantal bump mapping than this t-buffer shit. This t-buffer to me sounds like 3dfx is trying to pull another blanket over gamers eyes......i mean who are they to tell us the importance of t-buffer technology, i mean if it so great why arent any other card makers talking about it. i think to some it up .......3dfx forget the features its all about $$$ now!!

just something thats been bothering me here. people saying 3dfx this, is faster than nvidia that, since blah blah. correct me if im wrong. but hasnt independent benchmarking companies shown that overall:
tnt is faster than the voodoo2.
tnt2 is faster than the voodoo3.
and i think even the nvidia128 faster than the voodoo as someone was saying earlier. yes i know that the 3dfx part came out first in all of those cases. but they were in direct competition with them. and dont start spewing quake or quake 2 benchmarks at me either. im talking overall performance. not some mini gl driver game.

uh 200/220 on the herculise dynamite tnt2 ultra eheh
but then again..
BURN CARD BURN! ehe
bad idea..

uh hey dsl boy..
look at computers from the time quake1 was released...
Fastest system p133...and you were cooking!
and quake 3 computers
Fastest system p3 650 or so
and i\'m talking RELEASE ppl..
and guess what...
The voodoo3 3500 Tv comes off the SHELFS at 183mhz...
hmm
lets see
tnt2 ultra... 175/200 max?
i think the v770 ultra is 150/175 or so out of the box
and the voodoo3 3500 IS faster fool NOT prettier but about 1-5fps faster..
and dont start tossing that 32bit rendering sheit in..
it doesnt matter how fucking many colors i see when i\'m playin q2 n q3test..
as long as i can see you.. i can frag you..
and what GAMES are dx7.. uh.. as of now NONE are out there that use dx7 for one reason.. THERE IS NO FUCKING DX7 OUT THERE! (unless your counting win2000 beta)
and btw...
Quake2 is the almighty benchmarker for my video cards..
if q2 sucks with that card.. then that card isnt bought by me..
and btw what was i supposed to do in april when i learned that i needed some REAL acceleration for quake3..
i went and got me a CHEAP voodoo3 2000 pic ($125)
and also adsl boy...
FYI the psx2 can do 75million PPS :P
and the N2000 will do the same :P
get your friggen facts straight...
and if you wana know the psx can do 300,000 pps
and n64 can do 150,000 pps
and alot of this stuff is SPECULTATION
do you KNOW for a fact that the Voodoo4 wont have T&L? and the Nv10?
jeeze scary.... FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YOUR so called news page is a roumor board.. eheh
please cut the crap and put some REAL news non of this RUMOR SHEIT
and adsl boy...
you should get a log in name...
static ips are soo fun..
hhe
j/k
i wouldnt wana hurt a tnt2 looser now would I ;)