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Article #83314Re: VGA - SVGA: VGA sucks? No way...
From: Dave Glue
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 00:00
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Brant Rusch <ru...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article <586ivh$7...@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com>... > 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. It is for people with half-decent video cards. If you're getting only 17fps at 800*600 on a Pro, then you have one awful video card. P166's can get above 30 with decent ones at that res.
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From: "Dave Glue" <dav...@interlog.com> Subject: Re: VGA - SVGA: VGA sucks? No way... Date: 1996/12/06 Message-ID: <01bbe302$418b2b60$0100007f@dave> X-Deja-AN: 202589551 references: <32984032.47038410@news.syd.aone.net.au> <328ce899.2432916@news.spiritone.com> <56jc3j$2lb@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <3290e2cd.562624@news.spiritone.com> <3291A1DA.167EB0E7@fhpv.umb.sk> <571ao9$ulh@gatekeeeper.teledanmark.dk> <01bbd8a8$69c76080$0100007f@default> <329D3162.1112@erols.com> <329D6398.794BDF32@fhpv.umb.sk> <32A07FF3.3AB2@erols.com> <32A3BDA4.4C53@msn.com> <01bbe16c$72f691e0$dc98d4c7@dave> <32A54E10.2781E494@fhpv.umb.sk> <01bbe236$ebcb4820$0100007f@dave> <32A6A21E.41C67EA6@fhpv.umb.sk> <586ivh$74k@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> organization: InterLog Internet Services newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.games.apogee,alt.games.heretic,alt.games.doom,alt.games.warcraft,alt.games MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit