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Article #6430Re: Upgrade Recommendations Needed For Gaming
From: mcar... Michael Carmack
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 00:00
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Boedy Ligo (bat...@cloud.apana.org.au) wrote:
: I was about to kiss Anna Nicole Smith when jw...@student.open.ac.uk broke
: in and say:
: jw> From: jw...@student.open.ac.uk (J W Brodie)
: jw> Organization: The Open University
: jw> What's the difference between VRAM and DRAM as far as games
: jw> are concerned ?
: Well generally VRAM give a better performance in overall. But not always!
Not really for games, though. Games to date are generally in 256 colors.
VRAM doesn't really show much improvement over DRAM until you start doing
16-bit and 24-bit color. (Apparently 11th Hour supports 24-bit color, so
that's at least one game that would benefit.)
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