First of all, Matrox has nothing new to say. I really gave them some hard questions but the only thing they are saying was "G450? We did not announced it yet, so we are not allowed to give you infos yet, please leave your card so that we can send you infos if we have them". The same with the "not yet announced" G800. But with 3DFX they were the only graphics firm who know what they are talking about, I'll tell you that later.
3DFX=3 words: Anti Aliasing rocks!
You must see it to really know what "no aliasing" means. Every game I could play with AA turned on (in fact there were only 2 games with AA on, some snowboard thing and Revolt)(and check out Star Trek Elite force! this game is so cool! "WE ARE BORG") can only be described as "Ultra Sharp". But as I asked which AA was used, 2x or 4x, they didn't gave me an answer, the same as I asked if there is a Vodoo 5 6000 board running. I suppose there are only 2 Chip solutions running and some Voodoo 4's as there were games were you could not enable AA per key.
I would like to say that it is impressive (AA) but not if you play at a resolution of 1280x1024 or higher. Then the gain in image quality is not that much.
Diamond/S3 and ATI:
Oh god, these people are so stupid. I headed to Diamond S3 and saw a Version of UT running with the normal texture resolution. I asked a buddy if he can give me an answer which cards where running. The answer was:"S3 Cards". Then I:"Ach, echt?"( something like:"hmm, really?").
Then I wanted to be informed whats up with the Metal API support in the savage 2000 chip and why it has not be included in hardware. The guy didn't even knowed what a Savage 2000 is nor what S3TC/DXTC or Metal is. He wanted to asked some other guys and was never seen again. Nearly the same at ATI ("We have DXTC support in the Rage 128 Pro? Aha?").
Then i went to AMD, my firm of love. Last year there were only some people from Texas whom I could not understand in any way (only some words). But these guys knowed what they talked about. Not so the guys from Dresden.
Whant an Example? Ok:
Q: What a processor is running that 3DMark2000 there?
A: An Athlon
Q: MHz?
A:???????????
Then I closed the thing and so that it was a 650 one.
I asked him if there is a processor running with on die L2 cache
A: L2 what? and who died?
Then he caught I guy who could me give some Answers but not when dresden begins to ship Thunderbirds.
So it went all along, I was tiered and after doing some jobs for my firm, I went home.
And I'm sure, the next year will come and I'll be on the Cebit. The Chicks there are living SEX!
Mega
[This message has been edited by MegaManX4 (edited 25 February 2000).]
3DFX=3 words: Anti Aliasing rocks!
You must see it to really know what "no aliasing" means. Every game I could play with AA turned on (in fact there were only 2 games with AA on, some snowboard thing and Revolt)(and check out Star Trek Elite force! this game is so cool! "WE ARE BORG") can only be described as "Ultra Sharp". But as I asked which AA was used, 2x or 4x, they didn't gave me an answer, the same as I asked if there is a Vodoo 5 6000 board running. I suppose there are only 2 Chip solutions running and some Voodoo 4's as there were games were you could not enable AA per key.
I would like to say that it is impressive (AA) but not if you play at a resolution of 1280x1024 or higher. Then the gain in image quality is not that much.
Diamond/S3 and ATI:
Oh god, these people are so stupid. I headed to Diamond S3 and saw a Version of UT running with the normal texture resolution. I asked a buddy if he can give me an answer which cards where running. The answer was:"S3 Cards". Then I:"Ach, echt?"( something like:"hmm, really?").
Then I wanted to be informed whats up with the Metal API support in the savage 2000 chip and why it has not be included in hardware. The guy didn't even knowed what a Savage 2000 is nor what S3TC/DXTC or Metal is. He wanted to asked some other guys and was never seen again. Nearly the same at ATI ("We have DXTC support in the Rage 128 Pro? Aha?").
Then i went to AMD, my firm of love. Last year there were only some people from Texas whom I could not understand in any way (only some words). But these guys knowed what they talked about. Not so the guys from Dresden.
Whant an Example? Ok:
Q: What a processor is running that 3DMark2000 there?
A: An Athlon
Q: MHz?
A:???????????
Then I closed the thing and so that it was a 650 one.
I asked him if there is a processor running with on die L2 cache
A: L2 what? and who died?
Then he caught I guy who could me give some Answers but not when dresden begins to ship Thunderbirds.
So it went all along, I was tiered and after doing some jobs for my firm, I went home.
And I'm sure, the next year will come and I'll be on the Cebit. The Chicks there are living SEX!
Mega
[This message has been edited by MegaManX4 (edited 25 February 2000).]
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