Re: Which 3D accelerator card to get: Diamond or Creative Lab?

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From: we... Werner Punz
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 00:00

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pa...@clandcen.co.nz (Paul Lush) wrote:

>In <442s49$g...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> john...@aol.com (JohnDonld) writes:
>>Sure, Nvidia is using a cheat to get around rendering polygons.  The card
>>is meant to be a low cost game board!  Creative's board cost more but you
>>are also geting over 2x the polygon performance.  You get what you pay
>>for.  Creative's board offers the best performance and also has the most
>>support!  Creative made over $1.2 Billion last year and they will not
>>offer you inferior technology.  

I don't know anything about the 3d Blaster but I read an article about
the NVidia chip used in the diamond Card here is a short summary:
	Video Acceleration
	Sound hardware
	3d Accleration  on curved basis
	Textures held in Computer  RAM
	No hardware Z-Buffer !!!!!!!!!!
	Can use video as textures.

I think the lack of a Z Buffer costs lots of performanc. I still don't
know what to think about this chip. And since most of the new 3d games
will be windows based due to a lack of a standard api the curved 3d
acceleration is pretty useless.

Werner Punz
we...@inflab.uni-linz.ac.at

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From: we...@inflab.uni-linz.ac.at (Werner Punz)
Subject: Re: Which 3D accelerator card to get: Diamond or Creative Lab?
Date: 1995/10/02
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