Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?
Posted on 6 minutes ago
Quake2's software renderer screws up transparent textures and there's also the general issue of lookup tables straining the CPU more than a 3d card dealing with blending
Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?
Posted on Today, 02:39
I already had moved on from 3dfx, Voodoo4/5 looked hype over substance and doubled-down on desperate marketing, so it's just 'whatever' to me then. It's more of a "oh no! anyway", and the strange post-3dfx obsession of the STB era marketing/branding has been headscratching to me when that was the …
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on Today, 02:38
P4 also means early front USB ports
Re: The King has left the Building.
Posted on Yesterday, 08:27
I'm still hung up on this alternate "pentium = affordable" history.
Re: The King has left the Building.
Posted on Yesterday, 03:30
Intel486dx33 wrote on Yesterday, 02:58: Guys, The 1st. Gen. Pentium is the King of CPUs. It came in like a Wreaking ball and Obliterated the competition. Putting many c […] Show full quote Guys, The 1st. Gen. Pentium is the King of CPUs. It came in like a Wreaking ball and Obliterated the …
Re: GPU selection for 1GHz PIII
Posted on Yesterday, 03:21
i'd lean hard into that geforce sdr. That + P3 1GHz = spoiled ass-2000 person. But yeah stay clear from the later forcewares
Re: what is the coolest/most unique GPU art you have ever seen on a graphics card
Posted on Yesterday, 00:15
I didn't do nVidia cards at the time so I don't have any of their 'art' cards... if there's art involved it's gonna be a face on a box. Matrox M3D is among this with one of the earliest female gpu mascots, obviously compromising for the mystique harlequin but what I do consider pretty cards are the …
Re: Max Payne 1 on voodoo 3 3000 error "FPU precision assumed to be 53bits"
Posted on 2024-05-09, 16:17
Max Payne officially supports the 3dfx Voodoo3 (it's the minimum 3dfx hardware that is supported due to how it deals with texture memory) so it's something else. There should be a rule about the awful common blind advice of directx downgrading. I personally never done it to fix some game and never …
Re: OpenGL DirectX to software wrapper?
Posted on 2024-05-09, 02:56
Cyberdyne wrote on 2024-05-08, 20:38: Tulatin 1400 A software renderer driver ain't going to speed up 2002's struggling PC games on a 2001 processor...
Re: OpenGL DirectX to software wrapper?
Posted on 2024-05-08, 11:04
kinda Swiftshader was once a thing covering DX9 in software but that's been eaten and spat around corporately.
Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"
Posted on 2024-05-07, 00:47
Another advantage was the installer. There was something better about the graphics mode setting. Unfortunately I can't remember what it was exactly. Maybe using VESA at a higher resolution with more colors by default? That'd be the second stage after the first reboot where the detected graphics …
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-06, 02:13
agent_x007 wrote on 2024-05-05, 09:15: Bit of a monologue, but bare with me. The Pentium 4 launched before 9/11 so I have a hard time being convinced it's not retro.
Re: Patches and updates for games
Posted on 2024-05-05, 15:38
There'd been only one patch and it's v2.3 (no 0).
Re: 2004 Condition Zero resolution limit?
Posted on 2024-05-05, 15:21
myne wrote on 2024-05-05, 09:04: I had a quick look. CZ =counterstrike =half life =quake 2 derived Correct? no
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-05, 02:12
A p4's great for a PCX2 😀
Re: 3D Game Engine Development
Posted on 2024-05-05, 00:51
Re: The Dreamcast's XG MIDI support: just how does this even really work, anyway!?
Posted on 2024-05-04, 04:20
The most MIDI's anyone ever heard out of a Dreamcast had been through that synth coming with the web browsers like Planetweb, which had a limited patch set and sounded rather basic. Wouldn't be surprised if audio capabilities were exaggerated as much as what CLX2 gets all the time though, so much …
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-05-04, 00:59
Supersampling the screen was something mutual with the others so it's not a 3dfx only idea (FSAA hype was off the charts before pixel shaders hit). 3dfx's gimmick that didn't go through was FXT1 texture compression though :) FSAA/SSAA itself was a bit gimmicky only because it was a slow, brute force …
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-05-03, 01:10
I can't speak for everyone but my point is that fixed function T&L was more valuable as a marketing tool than as a hardware feature. You could say that for any big featured graphic advancement years ahead of the games that use them. It only got more gimmicky after DirectX 10, because how are you …
Re: ATi RagePro OpenGL files
Posted on 2024-05-03, 01:07
I believe rage's noise dither follows a 1D lookup table. If you want better dithering on an ATI card you'd have to jump ahead to R300
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