Turd Buffer in action

[PurpleHaze]

The antialiased blurry picture looks better in a blurry way compared to the non-antialiased blurry picture.

They're both crappy screenshots that look like they have the hell jpeg'd out of them.

Antialiasing IS a good thing, and it has NOTHING to do with 3dfx or t-buffers.

Actually, Edsun was doing it in their graphics cards (CEGdac, oem'd through Genoa) back in 1989 when 32,768 colors was a *really big deal*.

T-Buffer is just 3dfx's term for their antialiasing "technology"

... Hint. Whenever anything is followed by the word "technology", it's a marketing scheme and nothing more. Don't trust it.


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Ami Y. Koriuchi - foxyviolet@hotmail.com
Asus P2B 1010 - P3-500 - And a G400Max now.
256MB 6NS 70 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW

You're a ... 'guest' ... of the Master Control Program.

[Jorden]

I don't want to be saved (T minus 14 hours)

[AirBoy]

Boy, and ANT call this a 'users' site and NOT a fan site....

I have a G400 myself (and TNT, i740 before that) but it is not the 'perfect' card. I still miss the 'stretched bitmap filtering' that was available in the TNT. Ragging on other cards (future or present) doesn't make the G400 any better.

[ALBPM]

Please forgive me Steve. I'm German, Irish and Native American. They don't stand a Friggn chance do they ....LOL

Easy there Holly save yourself for Jorden Don't waste all that on 3DFX.

Paul

[SteveC]

Hey wizz/Tony - got a picture there?

Anyway, vaguely going back to computery land, why is it, that in each generation, are all the cards so similar? Now, we have the TNT2, G400, V3 etc, all roughly neck and neck in performance. A year ago, we had TNT, G200, V2 blah blah all roughly neck and neck. Why are all the graphics chip companies working to produce things which are direct competitors to each other? Why doesn't one of them make something two generations ahead of the other? Surely it is possible? It's almost as if all the big companies (like MAtrox, nvidia, 3dfx, S3) are working hand in hand to produce cards/chips which give everyone a fair share of the market?
Just my thoughts for the day, that's all.

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PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)

[Ant]

I said the MURC was a users site not a fan site, I don't control (within reason) what people post in these forums.

[Jorden]

Airboy, as Ant also said, if you don't like your Gx00 go back or onto a next card you do like...

BTW, what do you like about your G400??
It does other things your other cards can do, but hey, do follow my thinking: If all cards did the same at every time, and one would cost you US$35 yet the other would cost you US$345, which would you choose for then??
ALL CARDS DOING THE SAME, right??

So we come to special features of the vid-cards, and why they might cost what they do. A Matrox card cannot take on anything from a 3dfx card, or nVidia...

That's why they are trying to give us as much abilities (through different cards, except 3dfx (16bit)) as possible.

And we need to choose... Which one do you love most??

Jorden.

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Who likes his fries with mayonnaise??
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I GOT a very speedy, working G400 32Mb DH!!! (Delivered in an Asus AGP-V3800 16Mb box)
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Holly, Love and Tiberian Sun Rules !!
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[Maggi]

What are you peeps bragging about ?

I find the AA look just underlines that smooth visual quality, no more jaggies.

Why is my G400 so sharp and has so much contrast I almost have to wear sunglasses ?

I want a V4 now !!!

<FONT SIZE=18>NOT !</FONT>



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2x P3-450 @ 464MHz
512MB CAS2 SDRAM
Millenium G400 32MB DH

[AirBoy]

ANT: point taken. I shouldn't have left out the :-)

Jorden: Where in ANT's reply did he tell me to "if you don't like your Gx00 go back or onto a next card you do like..." ?

I am/was not saying that I disliked my G400. Only that in here and other videocard newsgroups, a lot of people appear to feel that one must 'love' their card and hate all others, hence the pissing contests.

I don't have any problems with people choosing the G400 (or whatever the card) for the features that are important to them. In fact, this is how it should be,not because website X gave it 9/10 or whatever. It is this exact reason that one should not turn around and bitch about or mock another card's features that are 'worthless' to them. As you said, not everyone want/need the same features.

p.s. G400 doesn't do anti-aliasing of the particles in Quake 2 (TNT does). Important? Depends on the user....

[dnickle]

Gotta agree with merchant on the mars probe F-up. Can't they get anything right anymore? Maybe they did'nt compensate for zero-G, or was it vacuum? NASA needs a spanking! Oh, and what about leaving our entire space program sitting there waiting for the big blow-job from Floyd? DUH!!!

[Jorden]

Airboy: Okay, point taken, reading between the lines did that for me (and Ant used the TnT-word )... at least you agree in some point

Jorden
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[merchant2112]

wow, thire is another.

someone else agrees with me that nasa is pulling some bullshit with the mars probe.



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rags, UPS ground sucks too. (i know i used to work for the slave driveing bastards.
wow what's wrong with me today usally i just sit here read the posts anmd mumble to my self it must be that mars probe failing bulshit that nasa is trying to pull again that's got me all worked up.