I've been planning on getting a new graphics card soon, and the g400max looks nice, but I have a few questions about it:
1) When are the g400max's going to be showing up in stores? I need to get another card really soon (by the end of july at the latest; my 2mb virge and vd2 just isnt cutting it anymore)
2) I'm also worried about the status of the opengl icd. I dont think its that easy to do a fully featured icd, and from the way matrox has handled the g200 icd, I cant trust that they'll have a decent icd this time around.
3) Is the g400 really cpu dependant? I waste most of my time playing games like quake2, so good performance in intense situations is a must (most of the g400 crusher benchmarks I've seen have the g400 not doing too hot, I pull off 41fps on my vd2 at 800*600 :/).
Those are the things I'm concerned about the most; I've considered getting a hercules tnt2 ultra, but I really want environmental bump mapping, better 32bit performance, and the higher quality at higher reses :/
[This message has been edited by whee (edited 06-29-99).]
1) When are the g400max's going to be showing up in stores? I need to get another card really soon (by the end of july at the latest; my 2mb virge and vd2 just isnt cutting it anymore)
2) I'm also worried about the status of the opengl icd. I dont think its that easy to do a fully featured icd, and from the way matrox has handled the g200 icd, I cant trust that they'll have a decent icd this time around.
3) Is the g400 really cpu dependant? I waste most of my time playing games like quake2, so good performance in intense situations is a must (most of the g400 crusher benchmarks I've seen have the g400 not doing too hot, I pull off 41fps on my vd2 at 800*600 :/).
Those are the things I'm concerned about the most; I've considered getting a hercules tnt2 ultra, but I really want environmental bump mapping, better 32bit performance, and the higher quality at higher reses :/
[This message has been edited by whee (edited 06-29-99).]
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