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Article #6953Future of PC-games, Dedicated gfx cards, not P6.
From: mryt... Markus Rytkl INF
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 00:00
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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
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From: mryt...@tor.abo.fi (Markus Rytk|l{ INF)
Subject: Future of PC-games, Dedicated gfx cards, not P6.
Date: 1995/09/22
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