Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:38:51 +1200 From: "Craig Harding" <crh@outpost.co.nz> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: video and sound card recommendations? Message-ID: <199904020545.RAA09333@fep2-orange.clear.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <790.922801421@zippy.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:33:18 CST." <14080.53208.929759.89531@habanero.chili-pepper.net>
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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.
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Craig Harding Head of Postproduction, Outpost Digital Media Ltd
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