C0deHunter wrote:Now, is Riva TNT considered a better card than Voodoo cards? I have a 16MB version, is it good enough to play Unreal, Quake II, and III?
Riva TNT is the direct competitor to the Voodoo2. Each card has pros and cons, I'll write pros for each card
Riva TNT
-newer, has some features that Voodoo2 is missing (some of the listed bellow)
-can play some games that Voodoo2 can't (but it's too slow in those games)
-32 bit support (usable only in earlier 3d games, where textures were anyway 8 bit or max 16 bit)
-1024x1024 texture support (V2 can do max 256x256)
-high resolution support (1920x1200, V2 can do max 1024x768, but almost any game is not playable at anything above 1024x768)
-faster in some D3D games
Voodoo2:
-faster in most games
-*much* faster in some glide games (Unreal is the best example)
-works with some old games patched only for glide (NFS2 SE, Carmageddon 1, etc)
-better image quality in 16 bit (V2 is 24 bit dithered)
TNT is technically superior, but it doesn't have the horsepower to run games with the features enabled. It will play QuakeII fine, QuakeIII will also run, not great, but ok. Unreal, not so much. If all you want is those three games go for Voodoo3 3000 if you can. If you want a build that can play a lot of games (newer and older) try to go for something like Geforce3 or Geforce4 Ti paired with 2 V2s in SLI. It should play almost any game from 1996 to 2003.