Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:13:59 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: video and sound card recommendations? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904020912500.16579-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199904020545.RAA09333@fep2-orange.clear.net.nz>
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On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Craig Harding wrote: > 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. TNT is a nice card but the new ATI Rage is also supposed to be good. TNT2 is going to be worth waiting for though... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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