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Re: VGA - SVGA: VGA sucks? No way...

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From: ru... Rusch
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 00:00
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>Have ya played Jagged Alliance, Warcraft, Realms Of Arkania 1-2,
>Raptor, Lands Of Lore, etc? Vga's and doesn't suck...
>Looks awfull? Don't know, I like it, there are not so much details
>in vga, so I have my own fantasy to see the "details".
>I don't say svga sucks, it's also good...

I run most of my games in VGA resolutions.  Why?  

I find most games look best in resolutions just slightly higher than
300x200.  I don't think  640x480 games look "good" in svga, or any
higher rez for that matter.....everything becomes a bit too angular for
my tastes.  Quite frankly, even though I have a Pro 200, I still run
almost all my software in VGA..why?

1) Smoothness.  Even with a fast computer, and a fast videocard, some
SVGA games just aren't smooth.  Skynet in 640x480 runs fine, but not
SMOOTHLY.  Duke in 800x600 runs at 17fps on my machine!!  What? That
sucks!  I figure another two years, all games are SVGA with optional
vga.......and we'll be bogging our machines down with 24bit games by
then.....getting into the "photorealistic" games, and we'll all be
bitching about them too.

SVGA is nice, but we're not quite there yet.

Brant
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From: ru...@ix.netcom.com(Brant Rusch)
Subject: Re: VGA - SVGA: VGA sucks? No way...
Date: 1996/12/05
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