Re: What is a Power VR Card?

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From: Thomas Denault
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 00:00

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PowerVR is a competing chipset with 3Dfx, whose trademark chipset name is
Voodoo.  PowerVR is NOT Voodoo, and is NOT 3Dfx.  If a game specifically
asks for a PowerVR based card, it will not function with a Diamond Monster
3D, unless the game is written to Direct3D or OpenGL.


Visionary wrote in message <34875D...@ns.sympatico.ca>...
>Can anyone tell me what a PowerVR card is? I just saw a new demo
>addition on the GamesDomain site that requires it. I know it is some
>sort of a 3dfx card, that is not based on the Voodoo chipset. Does that
>mean that a game that requires a PowerVR card will not work on a machine
>with a Diamond Monster 3D?

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Date: 1997/12/04
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