Geometry and lighting setup is extremely important. For my stuff, it is a very significant bottleneck. It is the perfect type of operation to offload to hardware. Not only is 3dfx missing out on that, they have been dicks about the source code. When they go down, they'll have noone to belame but themselves.
The slides at theseus.com brought me back to the days before I worked for a living. Way back then, I was employed at a big company that was getting paid by the government to generate lots of paper and slides. Government contracters have no clue how the real world works.
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Geometry and lighting setup is extremely important. For my stuff, it is a very significant bottleneck. It is the perfect type of operation to offload to hardware. Not only is 3dfx missing out on that, they have been dicks about the source code. When they go down, they'll have noone to belame but themselves.
The slides at theseus.com brought me back to the days before I worked for a living. Way back then, I was employed at a big company that was getting paid by the government to generate lots of paper and slides. Government contracters have no clue how the real world works.
If you need to drive unamplified speakers, a power amp is necessary. You need to add your own heat sink, however
So true! Games obviously should boot off the cdrom and require no os, hard drive, etc. The installation process is a huge deterrent.
Maybe they could sell PCI graphics cards - but entire work stations - I don't think so.