From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Apr 1 21:45:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from fep2-orange.clear.net.nz (fep2-orange.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E51C14FB1 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 21:45:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crh@outpost.co.nz) Received: from outpost.co.nz (b001-m001-p023.wgtn.clear.net.nz [203.167.240.23]) by fep2-orange.clear.net.nz (1.5/1.9) with ESMTP id RAA09333; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:45:32 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199904020545.RAA09333@fep2-orange.clear.net.nz> Received: (qmail 29267 invoked from network); 2 Apr 1999 04:39:14 -0000 Received: from officedonkey.acme.gen.nz (HELO officedonkey) (192.168.1.3) by evil-smelling-bugger.acme.gen.nz with SMTP; 2 Apr 1999 04:39:14 -0000 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Craig Harding" Organization: Outpost Digital Media Ltd To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:38:51 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: video and sound card recommendations? Reply-To: crh@outpost.co.nz Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG References: Your message of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:33:18 CST." <14080.53208.929759.89531@habanero.chili-pepper.net> In-reply-to: <790.922801421@zippy.cdrom.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.52) Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I have one of these cards (STB Velocity 4400) and use it with > XFree86 3.3.3.1's SVGA server, no problems. > > [...] > > It's certainly correct that nothing supports the 3D features at all > at this time. Heck, even for windows I have yet to see anything > which purports to take advantage of the Riva TNT chipset to a degree > close to what games are routinely doing with the Voodoo chipsets, > and this is supposed to be a comparable architecture. We'll > certainly not see its abilities exploited to the fullest by DirectX, > that's for sure. Actually a lot of PC games are now primarily supporting Direct 3D for hardware acceleration rather than 3dfx as they used to, and for these games the TNT boards are strongly recommended as a top performer. Eg for Apache-Havoc, the new (insanely great - plug, plug) helo flightsim from Razorworks, the consensus is that TNT boards are THE card to get for max performance. -- C. -- Craig Harding Head of Postproduction, Outpost Digital Media Ltd "I don't know about God, I just think we're handmade" - Polly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message