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Re: Future of PC-games, Dedicated gfx cards, not P6.

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From: bruno.c... Bruno P.Coutinho
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 00:00
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mryt...@tor.abo.fi (Markus Rytk|l{ INF) wrote:

> Isn't dedicated game Graphics cards the future of PC gaming? Think
>about it, a 486/66Mhz is a ok gaming machine, but if you want to run
>US Navy fighters in 800x600 you surely need a P133, but UsNavy fighters
>is a really technically weak game compared to arcade games, that means
>that a Pentium 133 suck att playing games. Hmmm, so let's say we get
>a Graphics card that could take the load of a Cpu up to about 75%, that's
>not impossible if we have a chip that do all the polygon calculations and
>texture mapping, we could probably triple the performance of our computers,
>now, someone is gonna say that it would really suck if you would need a 
>special gfx card to play a game, but then again, doesn't it suck even more
>to have to have a P133 ? :) A guy on a 486/50 would run Descent and other
>games about twice the speed that the poor P133 owner would do. And the
>owner of the 486/50 would have spent about half as little money on his
>gaming equippment. 

> Yeah, maybe someday, the PC will be transformed from a really poor
> gaming machine to an okay one ?

>//MaKa

Wow! Great idea!

Listen, where the hell have you been lately?
Haven't you heard of 3D accelerators? It's the future of PC gaming.
Check www.nvidia.com !!! - You'll love it !

Cya


Bruno Coutinho
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