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nevermind, i have no question other then why are you idiots using nvidia
sheit?
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nevermind, i have no question other then why are you idiots using nvidia
sheit?

'cause it works, if you're smart enough to configure it...and I don't have to
send my money to those pesky dollar-devaluating canadians to buy it?

What'da I win?


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Probably because I had to give up my Voodoo5 since WindowsXP doesnt support
Glide - and games dont anymore either. And my car isnt even 5 years old, so
I wont use Win98se just to have a Voodoo5 still running. I was a BIG 3dFx
fan, and was sorry to see them go.


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Sept1967 wrote:
Probably because I had to give up my Voodoo5 since WindowsXP doesnt
support Glide - and games dont anymore either. And my car isnt even 5
years old, so I wont use Win98se just to have a Voodoo5 still
running. I was a BIG 3dFx fan, and was sorry to see them go.

I'm still using a Voodoo3 to run a second monitor. Along with my GeForce3
Ti200 for my primary monitor. IIRC, I paid something like $179 for my
Voodoo3... Back when they were one of the best cards for gaming... I still
play one game that supports it, SWAT3, but I play it using the GeForce
card...

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god wrote:

nevermind, i have no question other then why are you idiots using nvidia
sheit?

[rimshot] badump-ching! [/rimshot]

The V5 was a really great card for that short time period it existed.
Everyone I've read whose got their mits on one says it's really a fun
card overall.

Not nearly as fast as todays stuff, but it had most of the things we now
use - Multisample Antialiasing algorithems (which NVidia later
incorporated into the GF3 CineFX(1) engine), basic anisotropy, zbuffer
culling, etc.

Keep in mind though that the Voodoo never really died. NVidia has taken
a lot of the ideas the last 3dFX designers thought up and tried
incorporating little bits of them into the current product lines. MSAA
is a direct decendent of the V4/V5 full screen antialiasing method.

Quincunx is a simplified example of that. Use a jittered grid,
rotated(?), only sample the neighboring edge pixels in a pseudo 2x1
fashion, then apply post process filtering to achieve an almost 5 sample
quality (4x FSAA is 8 sample) - pretty much the V5 method.

I even remember the two being compared; the Geforce with Supersampling
versus the V5's Multisampling method and the controversy over blurring,
etc. Now everyone uses optimized MSAA methods.

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 11:41:23 -0500, "god"
wrote:


nevermind, i have no question other then why are you idiots using nvidia
sheit?


Because 3DFX went out of buisiness!

In alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia, god ordered an army of hamsters to
type:


nevermind, i have no question other then why are you idiots using nvidia
sheit?



because theres an FX in GeforceFX

"phobos" wrote in message
...
god wrote:

nevermind, i have no question other then why are you idiots using nvidia
sheit?

[rimshot] badump-ching! [/rimshot]

The V5 was a really great card for that short time period it existed.
Everyone I've read whose got their mits on one says it's really a fun
card overall.

Not nearly as fast as todays stuff, but it had most of the things we now
use - Multisample Antialiasing algorithems (which NVidia later
incorporated into the GF3 CineFX(1) engine), basic anisotropy, zbuffer
culling, etc.

Keep in mind though that the Voodoo never really died. NVidia has taken
a lot of the ideas the last 3dFX designers thought up and tried
incorporating little bits of them into the current product lines. MSAA
is a direct decendent of the V4/V5 full screen antialiasing method.

Quincunx is a simplified example of that. Use a jittered grid,
rotated(?), only sample the neighboring edge pixels in a pseudo 2x1
fashion, then apply post process filtering to achieve an almost 5 sample
quality (4x FSAA is 8 sample) - pretty much the V5 method.

I even remember the two being compared; the Geforce with Supersampling
versus the V5's Multisampling method and the controversy over blurring,
etc. Now everyone uses optimized MSAA methods.





3dfx used RGSS ( rotated grid supersampling )

"ec" wrote in message news:OZGpb.1577$Zb7.209@fed1read01...

"phobos" wrote in message
...
god wrote:

nevermind, i have no question other then why are you idiots using
nvidia
sheit?

[rimshot] badump-ching! [/rimshot]

The V5 was a really great card for that short time period it existed.
Everyone I've read whose got their mits on one says it's really a fun
card overall.

Not nearly as fast as todays stuff, but it had most of the things we now
use - Multisample Antialiasing algorithems (which NVidia later
incorporated into the GF3 CineFX(1) engine), basic anisotropy, zbuffer
culling, etc.

Keep in mind though that the Voodoo never really died. NVidia has taken
a lot of the ideas the last 3dFX designers thought up and tried
incorporating little bits of them into the current product lines. MSAA
is a direct decendent of the V4/V5 full screen antialiasing method.

Quincunx is a simplified example of that. Use a jittered grid,
rotated(?), only sample the neighboring edge pixels in a pseudo 2x1
fashion, then apply post process filtering to achieve an almost 5 sample
quality (4x FSAA is 8 sample) - pretty much the V5 method.

I even remember the two being compared; the Geforce with Supersampling
versus the V5's Multisampling method and the controversy over blurring,
etc. Now everyone uses optimized MSAA methods.





3dfx used RGSS ( rotated grid supersampling )



BTW:

Source: http://www.riva3d.com/fsaa.html

3dfx never used multisampling, all their AA was RGSS. You can read about it
pretty much anywhere.

"ec" wrote in message news:OZGpb.1577$Zb7.209@fed1read01...

"phobos" wrote in message
...
god wrote:

nevermind, i have no question other then why are you idiots using
nvidia
sheit?

[rimshot] badump-ching! [/rimshot]

The V5 was a really great card for that short time period it existed.
Everyone I've read whose got their mits on one says it's really a fun
card overall.

Not nearly as fast as todays stuff, but it had most of the things we now
use - Multisample Antialiasing algorithems (which NVidia later
incorporated into the GF3 CineFX(1) engine), basic anisotropy, zbuffer
culling, etc.

Keep in mind though that the Voodoo never really died. NVidia has taken
a lot of the ideas the last 3dFX designers thought up and tried
incorporating little bits of them into the current product lines. MSAA
is a direct decendent of the V4/V5 full screen antialiasing method.

Quincunx is a simplified example of that. Use a jittered grid,
rotated(?), only sample the neighboring edge pixels in a pseudo 2x1
fashion, then apply post process filtering to achieve an almost 5 sample
quality (4x FSAA is 8 sample) - pretty much the V5 method.

I even remember the two being compared; the Geforce with Supersampling
versus the V5's Multisampling method and the controversy over blurring,
etc. Now everyone uses optimized MSAA methods.





3dfx used RGSS ( rotated grid supersampling )



Ack, one more good rad about 3dfx's old RGSS:

http://www.voodoofiles.com/3dfx/fsaa.asp