Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-05-04, 19:45
Somebody should do proper TnL benchmarks. Until then there is very little data to decide its usefulness.
Re: Voodoo Rush 4 mb
Posted on 2024-04-29, 06:41
rain wrote on 2024-04-28, 13:56: Putas wrote on 2024-04-28, 13:50: Is it possible you have the Croc and Pandemonium 3d accelerated, and the rest is software rendered? Because the 2d part seems broken. Gta2 and mtm2 has 3dfx support but not for rush? I only think these games are released not on time …
Re: Voodoo Rush 4 mb
Posted on 2024-04-28, 13:50
Is it possible you have the Croc and Pandemonium 3d accelerated, and the rest is software rendered? Because the 2d part seems broken.
Re: Matrox Mystique and Millennium plus successors
Posted on 2024-04-21, 17:27
AFAIK, there isn't an order of Mystique cards and their clocks. All the chips can appear in more clock variants. I have a suspicion Matrox card numbering (the xxx-xx format) can encode it, but I do not know enough cards to examine that.
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards
Posted on 2024-04-20, 11:21
Thanks for the driver compilation, DEAT. Here is a 2073 with d3d.
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards
Posted on 2024-04-15, 19:36
Try lower resolution via preferences/ini.
Re: Quake3 colorMipLevels LOD curiosity
Posted on 2024-04-15, 06:55
I have done these only for Neon 250 so far. Just remembered it is High Quality preset, therefore not picmip 0. Is it a must?
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards
Posted on 2024-04-14, 10:37
Great job 386SX, now I want to give AT3D a second look. My focus on the latest drivers is sometimes a weakness. Viper Racing has no software renderer, it's accelerated or nothing. I expect the smoke to be unblended (assuming it gets past caps checks, I never got a PCX2 through to Viper in the day) …
Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L
Posted on 2024-04-13, 19:31
Dothan Burger wrote on 2024-04-13, 17:57: Didn't Geforce 3 and the Radeon 8500 have fixed function T&L units as well as vertex shaders? That would be quite redundant.
Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L
Posted on 2024-04-11, 14:06
Neither Banshee nor Voodoo3 were low-end, they performed too well. Come to think of it, Voodoo3 could benefit from TnL the most, as there weren't CPUs fast enough to carry her to the top at launch. But it wouldn't be economical. 3dfx fans often say this or that should have been like the next chip, …
Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L
Posted on 2024-04-10, 17:37
While TnL was a natural and useful evolution for graphics chips, it wasn't easy to argue for it back then. The systems were balanced and expected to do it with a CPU and those were also speeding up nicely.
Re: "Shader Model 2.0" games released in 2003
Posted on 2024-04-09, 20:05
Compatible means it runs with the DirectX version. Want the new features? That is compliance.
Re: "Shader Model 2.0" games released in 2003
Posted on 2024-04-09, 13:50
Thanks, very helpful. I also noticed in the system requirements for some 2003 games they needed a "DirectX 9 compatible" card. Note that the DX listed in requirements is a terrible indicator of which D3D the game uses (DirectX and Direct3D are not the same thing), and even if you do figure out the …
Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?
Posted on 2024-03-30, 06:39
Oh yes, I agree. Also because people weren't used to patching.
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions
Posted on 2024-03-25, 03:18
leileilol wrote on 2024-03-25, 00:38: also i'd take the strange blocky dither filtering over whatever SiS does. Oh please, they are fine. Don't judge them by a few OpenGL oddities.
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions
Posted on 2024-03-24, 18:24
Let's speculate. It is hard to believe that the artifacts are all due to hardware bugs. Suppose that texture perspective correction is really broken. What if they tried to soften the distortion by rendering the textures at offset and dither between them? Edges are harder to recognize, masking the …
Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?
Posted on 2024-03-20, 05:40
I was also puzzled when I saw the new Tomb Raider 123 remaster where you can switch between the new graphics and the "original" graphics. The original graphics in the remaster have no filtering so it looks worse than the actual original game where you couldn't disable filtering. Tomb Raider only …
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions
Posted on 2024-03-19, 20:28
The AT3D deserves a deeper dive. Alliance worked on the drivers for a while as if they could salvage it. Anyway, all the first-generation sins in one card? That is an achievement, maybe educational nowadays.
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions
Posted on 2024-03-19, 11:03
I haven't notice any memory failures on RDRAM cards. I doubt any memory on 90's cards would die due to heat.
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions
Posted on 2024-03-17, 19:41
386SX wrote on 2024-03-17, 13:52: I wonder why Powerstrip seems to read ram clock (40Mhz) but not the chip clock at all and of course you can't increase that. Need to check memory timings as well. Both chip and memory clocks are controlled by that one value.
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