From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Apr 3 23:21:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from ren.detir.qld.gov.au (ns.detir.qld.gov.au [203.46.81.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A1E414FD2 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 23:21:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au) Received: by ren.detir.qld.gov.au; id RAA16610; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 17:22:51 +1000 (EST) Received: from ogre.detir.qld.gov.au(167.123.8.3) by ren.detir.qld.gov.au via smap (4.1) id xma016605; Sun, 4 Apr 99 17:22:35 +1000 Received: from atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (atlas.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.8.9]) by ogre.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA16972; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 17:19:22 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (nymph.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.10.10]) by atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA20389; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 17:19:21 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (localhost.detir.qld.gov.au [127.0.0.1]) by nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA22085; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 17:19:19 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from syssgm@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au) Message-Id: <199904040719.RAA22085@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> To: "Craig Harding" Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, "Jordan K. Hubbard" , syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: video and sound card recommendations? References: <199904020545.RAA09333@fep2-orange.clear.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <199904020545.RAA09333@fep2-orange.clear.net.nz> from "Craig Harding" at "Fri, 02 Apr 1999 16:38:51 +1200" Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 17:19:19 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 2nd April 1999, "Craig Harding" wrote: >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. Be careful how far you generalise. If you have an AMD K6-2 (or -III) you will get a much better time from a Voodoo2 because of the much better 3DNow support in the driver. Even this piece of knowledge is transient; it seems that the Voodoo3 drivers are not so 3DNow aware, and the TNT2 kicks its arse. See www.anandtech.com and www.tomshardware.com (among others) and read until your eyes fall out. Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message