Re: Software defined hardware graphics card?
Posted on Yesterday, 01:00
Today's CPUs ain't got the juice to emulate a Geforce2, and so a FPGA can't either
Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?
Posted on 2024-05-12, 10:16
it's more like they implemented their brush drawing routine off their transparent water routine which is strictly made for 64x64 (for tiled turbulence), and gets a bad read on any other size and they left that as-is obvious right from the starting level's window. ref_soft in quake2 is a bit of an …
Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?
Posted on 2024-05-12, 07:05
revolstar wrote on 2024-05-11, 17:12: On a somewhat related note, Phil posted a video about software rendering last week 😉 ah, explains that thread of a sudden unrealistic prospect of software rendered gta3 on a tualtin for performance.
Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?
Posted on 2024-05-12, 03:31
hornet was with STMicro. NEC had pulled out earlier (an earlier powervr2 card could've been possible ~Q4 98 if they hadn't)
Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?
Posted on 2024-05-11, 07:09
Quake2's software renderer screws up transparent textures and there's also the general issue of lookup tables straining the CPU more than a 3d card dealing with blending
Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?
Posted on 2024-05-11, 02:39
I already had moved on from 3dfx, Voodoo4/5 looked hype over substance and doubled-down on desperate marketing, so it's just 'whatever' to me then. It's more of a "oh no! anyway", and the strange post-3dfx obsession of the STB era marketing/branding has been headscratching to me when that was the …
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-11, 02:38
P4 also means early front USB ports
Re: The King has left the Building.
Posted on 2024-05-10, 08:27
I'm still hung up on this alternate "pentium = affordable" history.
Re: The King has left the Building.
Posted on 2024-05-10, 03:30
Intel486dx33 wrote on 2024-05-10, 02:58: Guys, The 1st. Gen. Pentium is the King of CPUs. It came in like a Wreaking ball and Obliterated the competition. Putting many c […] Show full quote Guys, The 1st. Gen. Pentium is the King of CPUs. It came in like a Wreaking ball and Obliterated the …
Re: GPU selection for 1GHz PIII
Posted on 2024-05-10, 03:21
i'd lean hard into that geforce sdr. That + P3 1GHz = spoiled ass-2000 person. But yeah stay clear from the later forcewares
Re: what is the coolest/most unique GPU art you have ever seen on a graphics card
Posted on 2024-05-10, 00:15
I didn't do nVidia cards at the time so I don't have any of their 'art' cards... if there's art involved it's gonna be a face on a box. Matrox M3D is among this with one of the earliest female gpu mascots, obviously compromising for the mystique harlequin but what I do consider pretty cards are the …
Re: Max Payne 1 on voodoo 3 3000 error "FPU precision assumed to be 53bits"
Posted on 2024-05-09, 16:17
Max Payne officially supports the 3dfx Voodoo3 (it's the minimum 3dfx hardware that is supported due to how it deals with texture memory) so it's something else. There should be a rule about the awful common blind advice of directx downgrading. I personally never done it to fix some game and never …
Re: OpenGL DirectX to software wrapper?
Posted on 2024-05-09, 02:56
Cyberdyne wrote on 2024-05-08, 20:38: Tulatin 1400 A software renderer driver ain't going to speed up 2002's struggling PC games on a 2001 processor...
Re: OpenGL DirectX to software wrapper?
Posted on 2024-05-08, 11:04
kinda Swiftshader was once a thing covering DX9 in software but that's been eaten and spat around corporately.
Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"
Posted on 2024-05-07, 00:47
Another advantage was the installer. There was something better about the graphics mode setting. Unfortunately I can't remember what it was exactly. Maybe using VESA at a higher resolution with more colors by default? That'd be the second stage after the first reboot where the detected graphics …
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-06, 02:13
agent_x007 wrote on 2024-05-05, 09:15: Bit of a monologue, but bare with me. The Pentium 4 launched before 9/11 so I have a hard time being convinced it's not retro.
Re: Patches and updates for games
Posted on 2024-05-05, 15:38
There'd been only one patch and it's v2.3 (no 0).
Re: 2004 Condition Zero resolution limit?
Posted on 2024-05-05, 15:21
myne wrote on 2024-05-05, 09:04: I had a quick look. CZ =counterstrike =half life =quake 2 derived Correct? no
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-05, 02:12
A p4's great for a PCX2 😀
Re: 3D Game Engine Development
Posted on 2024-05-05, 00:51
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