First post, by appiah4
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- l33t++
I have gone from a Voodoo 3 to a Radeon to a GeForce 2 GTS back to a Voodoo 3 for my Slot 1 system, simply because I've found that the OpenGL and D3D wrappers and render paths for some of my favorite games from the 1995-1999 period are just too unreliable or problematic on non-3dfx hardware that is fast enough to warrant a move forward.
The straw that broke the camel's back was Jane's F-15 not launching with a GeForce 2 GTS after being patched to 1.17f for D3D support (it kept complaining about MSAPI.DLL being missing) but the issues are not just that. Jane's Longbow 2 is another title that just doesn't work well in other render modes (I know this looks like a pattern but bear with me.) At the end of the day I decided that being able to play I-War, Tomb Raider, Diablo II (not that this adds MUCH to the game but it's nice anyway), NFS II, Rainbow Six with 3D acceleration all made up for not having 32-bit rendering or 100+ fps.
In short, after a few affairs with other graphics cards, I am back inseperably united with my Voodoo 3. This is however kind of a letdown in a way. I already have a Voodoo 2 SLI in my K6-2 system so I was hoping I could go forward with some other card in this one, but either I'm a habitual creature and I can't make do with what I like playing, or there was some way people who opted for the TNT2 could play these games that I do not know about.
So my question to all of you who go for non-3dfx cards is: What am I missing?
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