--- What will be interesting in the future, will be the test results of the Voodoo4 (or whatever it will be called). This card should be able to do more with a lower framerate due to it's support of motion blur. The corrollary that 3Dfx is making with the V4 is between film which runs at 24fpx and todays video games which must run at 60fps. I think that most people would agree that film looks very, very good. If what 3Dfx says about their board is true, then FPS will no longer be a suitable judge for a boards performance. Assuming that a game is written to take advantage of motion blur. The downside... games depend on reaction to a controller and must be able to display these small changes. If the game is only updating at 24fps, then you may feel as if you don't have precise control over the game (but it will damn well look good!!). ---
This certainly isn't true at all. 3DFX has *always* stressed framerate over features, and it's not different with the V4 (Napalm, whatever). You can expect this card to put up framerates that squash all the competition, but at the expense of having a limited featureset. They've got a supposedly huge fillrate with the V4, but most of that will go to supporting full-screen anti-aliasing at a decent framerate. So 3DFX has another incremental product upgrade with minimal benefit to the consumer. 32-bit color? Wow - that only took close to 2 years to implement after their competitiors did.
Face it, 3DFX hasn't done anything really worthwhile since bringing affordable 3D in hardware to the desktop.
Tom's an arrogant whiner with very little actual computer knowledge. His site has always been mediocre at best, but now you get that same lame computer news with a healthy dose of attitude, over-inflated ego and conspiracy theories.
Isn't this the same guy who was telling id how they wrote their engines? The same one that discredits every other computer tech page on the web? The same one who writes in such broken English that it's sometimes hard to follow his articles? The same one who personally attacks anyone who uses facts and reason to prove him wrong? The same one who will climb so far up a chip manufacturer's ass he can't see the light of day?
"...we work with you to define test goals. Then we put together the necessary tools and do the testing. We report the results back to you in a form that satisfies the test goals."
"Define test goals"?
"..satisfies the test goals."?
Isn't the goal of testing to reach unbiased, truthful results? Mindcraft simply takes the cash and criteria, and gives you the results you want. I couldn't sleep at night if I worked for a company devoid of any morals.
These GLIDE wrappers have been around for a bit, and serve the purpose of allowing non-3DFX hardware to run GLIDE-only apps. The January release of the very functional GLIDE-only Nintendo64 emulator caused an influx in GLIDE wrapper creation and distribution.
Most of these wrappers are crap - only a few are worth using. However, if they were developed with the SDK, then the autors are SOL legally; I quote, from the license:
"You may not: ... 3. Use the Materials for for any platform or products other than 3Dfx products; ..."
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What will be interesting in the future, will be the test results of the Voodoo4 (or whatever it will be called). This card should be able to do more with a lower framerate due to it's support of motion blur. The corrollary that 3Dfx is making with the V4 is between film which runs at 24fpx and todays video games which must run at 60fps. I think that most people would agree that film looks very, very good. If what 3Dfx says about their board is true, then FPS will no longer be a suitable judge for a boards performance. Assuming that a game is written to take advantage of motion blur. The downside... games depend on reaction to a controller and must be able to display these small changes. If the game is only updating at 24fps, then you may feel as if you don't have precise control over the game (but it will damn well look good!!).
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This certainly isn't true at all. 3DFX has *always* stressed framerate over features, and it's not different with the V4 (Napalm, whatever). You can expect this card to put up framerates that squash all the competition, but at the expense of having a limited featureset. They've got a supposedly huge fillrate with the V4, but most of that will go to supporting full-screen anti-aliasing at a decent framerate. So 3DFX has another incremental product upgrade with minimal benefit to the consumer. 32-bit color? Wow - that only took close to 2 years to implement after their competitiors did.
Face it, 3DFX hasn't done anything really worthwhile since bringing affordable 3D in hardware to the desktop.
-aaron
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aaron barnes
part-time dork
misinformation.
Tom's an arrogant whiner with very little actual computer knowledge. His site has always been mediocre at best, but now you get that same lame computer news with a healthy dose of attitude, over-inflated ego and conspiracy theories.
Isn't this the same guy who was telling id how they wrote their engines? The same one that discredits every other computer tech page on the web? The same one who writes in such broken English that it's sometimes hard to follow his articles? The same one who personally attacks anyone who uses facts and reason to prove him wrong? The same one who will climb so far up a chip manufacturer's ass he can't see the light of day?
I'll go elsewhere for my computer news, thanks.
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aaron barnes
part-time dork
"...we work with you to define test goals. Then we put together the necessary tools and do the testing. We report the results back to you in a form that satisfies the test goals."
"Define test goals"?
"..satisfies the test goals."?
Isn't the goal of testing to reach unbiased, truthful results? Mindcraft simply takes the cash and criteria, and gives you the results you want. I couldn't sleep at night if I worked for a company devoid of any morals.
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aaron barnes
part-time dork
These GLIDE wrappers have been around for a bit, and serve the purpose of allowing non-3DFX hardware to run GLIDE-only apps. The January release of the very functional GLIDE-only Nintendo64 emulator caused an influx in GLIDE wrapper creation and distribution.
Most of these wrappers are crap - only a few are worth using. However, if they were developed with the SDK, then the autors are SOL legally; I quote, from the license:
"You may not:
...
3. Use the Materials for for any platform or products other than 3Dfx products;
..."
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aaron barnes
part-time dork