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

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3 total messages Started by mryt... Markus Rytkl INF Fri, 22 Sep 1995 00:00

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Author: mryt... Markus Rytkl INF
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

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

#6954

Author: dav... Dave Glue
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 00:00

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mryt...@tor.abo.fi (Markus Rytk|l{ INF) wrote:

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

Gee, maybe someday.  Perhaps why 3D accelerator card announcements
have been flowing in the past few months.  Which has constiuted a
significantly portion of discussion on this base for the past week.

Cretiave has their 3D blaster, Diamond has their EDGE.  Soon, ATI,
Cirrus Logic, Yamaha, Real 3D and others will also be introducing 3D
chips.

So, how was that island vacation?

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

#6955

Author: 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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>From the city of Port wine.
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