Re: Max Payne 1 on voodoo 3 3000 error "FPU precision assumed to be 53bits"
Posted on 2024-05-11, 21:45
Re: At which point does pcie nvme become faster?
Posted on 2024-05-08, 20:14
Well, not long ago I installed Windows 7 on an NVME on an M5A99X with a Phenom II 1100T and 16GB; I don't think the processor could be the limit, rather the limit should have been the chipset, PCIE 2.0. It was an NVME PCIE 3.0 4x and only reached 1600 mbs. Needless to say, Windows 7 on an NVME looks …
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-04-23, 22:33
So in the end GLide had no relevance for the future because the APIs that lasted didn't take advantage of anything from Glide, I'm a little disappointed considering how much people talk about the wonders of GLide, what made GLide different from other APIs proprietary features of the time was the …
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-04-23, 14:39
And here we are again, the first Unreal Engine was already a few years old in 2000. To say that a few games took advantage of GLide in the year 2000, is nothing to be happy about, it is a symptom of the agony of 3dfx. In 2000 DX7 with HT&L and in 2001 DX8 with programmable pixel shaders and vertex …
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-04-22, 15:18
Well, in this thread (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=39965&hilit=3dmark99+mega&start=240) there are many 3DMark99 results, and it seems that the Geforce 2 would be above the Voodoo 4 Under the same conditions. It is not strange either, since on paper, at least, it doubles the Voodoo 4 …
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-04-22, 14:03
Well that and it's hard to say how much effort NV put into software fallbacks on cards with hardware T&L. The comparison with the PowerVR card was useful in that regard as they at least named it a feature and may have put in some decent optimizations. Maybe, a starting point could be 3DMark99, if …
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-04-21, 20:44
The aim is to figure out the effectiveness of HW T&L alone. You cannot achieve that by comparing different cards that have different specs. Using the same card and testing in both HW and SW T&L modes is the proper objective way of doing it. You could test multiple cards, but you still need to test …
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-04-21, 19:49
Well, for example, in this thread (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=97149); which begins at the time when Voodoo 3,4 and 5 were sold, with the Pentium 4 Socket 423 and 478; no one has used a 3dfx card. There are Gerforce 2/3/4, FX, 6 and more modern, also Radeon cards from ATI. Although …
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-04-21, 08:03
I think the issue of 3dfx is almost like a disease that many of us suffer from, we like a brand AMD or Intel, AMD or Nvidia, or 3dfx, and when we choose a path, we always try to look for the advantages of what we choose, ignoring the flaws, even if they are obvious. I think that's what happens with …
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards
Posted on 2024-04-15, 20:58
Of course, the way of rendering that at3d uses seems very curious to me, it has its charm. Too bad those games don't seem very playable. In some ways, it reminds me a lot of the first 3D games on the Arcade machines.
Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L
Posted on 2024-04-11, 20:35
like Amazon? :--) https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2017/05/23/the-amazon-era-no-profits-no-problem/ https://247wallst.com/special-report/2022/06/03/largest-public-companies-that-dont-turn-a-profit/ When you are on stock exchange profit is not important, market share and growth are. 3Dfx …
Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L
Posted on 2024-04-11, 17:58
Meh, that's mostly BS. There is no cheaper way to bump morale and limit employee turnover than free lunches/drinks and paying for occasional party. It's literally peanuts compared to employee compensation. I agree, there is no problem as long as you have the money for those parties, dinners and …
Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L
Posted on 2024-04-11, 16:36
There is a saying where I live that perhaps the translation is not correct, "you can't live off past glories". I think that at 3dfx they wanted to live the entire life of their first success; I've read some articles that talked about parties and lack of control, and uncontrolled spending of money. I …
Re: Multimeter recommendation
Posted on 2024-04-07, 10:48
This is the last multimeter I've bought BSIDE S30 https://www.ebay.com/itm/314955167654 I've bought it in AE because it was discounted there, until now I'm fairly happy with it for its prize. The biggest problem is the battery, it has a big screen and the battery doesn't last long, and you can't use …
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions
Posted on 2024-04-02, 17:34
That mixed driver seems to give at least an acceptable result in which the image is distinguished, not like before, if it is playable, Terracide has its charm in the AT3D. But it seems that according to FRAPS, it cannot reach 25 FPS, if it does with the overclock, I find it interesting to play it …
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions
Posted on 2024-03-30, 21:28
At least the Trident seems to have the necessary capabilities, the image quality seems good, it hurts about the lack of performance, it could have been really useful, but even if the overclock really works, the performance seems quite bad. For me, playing a game at less than 640x480 with a "3D …
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions
Posted on 2024-03-25, 21:26
Those reference programs sound interesting, I have also ever thought if there was something besides 3DMARK for Direct3D, for OpenGL, there is GLQuake, but for Direct3D, I didn't know of any. Because 3DMARK99 already seems very modern to me for pre-1998 graphics cards like the ones we discussed in …
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions
Posted on 2024-03-25, 11:44
That's normal for 96-97 stuff to me. yall playing newer blendy blend games on it that'll break the whole permedia/virge/mystique/powervr1 gamut also i'd take the strange blocky dither filtering over whatever SiS does. If I had this AT3D i'd attempt to play stuff using techland's d3d gl driver, …
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions
Posted on 2024-03-24, 16:43
With or without driver problems, the AT3D seems pretty useless, it seems to be missing so many features that it is even surprising that they even sold it. It looks like it could take the podium as the worst 3D card. At least in those captures, I see the worst I have ever seen.
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions
Posted on 2024-03-23, 16:58
I suppose one of the "many" great 3dfx ideas to imagine such card in collaboration with a ready to use mostly 2D platform. I didn't remember it ended up that bad, never had the Voodoo Rush card while always thought interesting to test. Meanwhile, the old Socket 7 platform ended up even less stable …
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