3DFX GTA and CL Voodoo 2
Evil Ninja
Ok, I went a wee bit mad and bought a Creative Labs Voodoo 2, and
immediately booted up the 3dFX version of Grand theft auto... One question I
have is "Is that it?"... it looks, plays and feels idential to the standard
version of GTA (in 24bit colour)??? Is there something I am doing wrong here
or have DMA optimised the shit out of their standard code so its equally as
fast on both platforms???
G-Man
Get Quake2 and try... no 3d gfx in gta.... is there...
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Jon Skeet
> > Ok, I went a wee bit mad and bought a Creative Labs Voodoo 2, and
> > immediately booted up the 3dFX version of Grand theft auto... One
> > question I have is "Is that it?"... it looks, plays and feels idential to
> > the standard version of GTA (in 24bit colour)???
> Get Quake2 and try... no 3d gfx in gta.... is there...
Things don't have to be ostensibly 3D to benefit from 3d card
acceleration. The very fact that there *is* a 3dfx version of GTA
implies that it's using the acceleration somehow. (Besides which
there are clearly 3D graphics - just not first person perspective
ones.)
I suspect Evil Ninja's "problem" is that his machine was already
powerful enough to run GTA at a full frame rate, so using a 3dFX
card doesn't add much. I know on a lot of games there are a lot of
added special effects (mist, lighting, whatever) using a 3D card - I
suspect GTA just uses 3dFX to accelerate the frame rate on slower
computers.
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Mike Dailly
"Evil Ninja" <evilni...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Ok, I went a wee bit mad and bought a Creative Labs Voodoo 2, and
>immediately booted up the 3dFX version of Grand theft auto... One question I
>have is "Is that it?"... it looks, plays and feels idential to the standard
>version of GTA (in 24bit colour)??? Is there something I am doing wrong here
>or have DMA optimised the shit out of their standard code so its equally as
>fast on both platforms???
If you have a FAST "cpu" then its about the same speed. However, the
3Dfx version allows up to 800x600 with filtering... can't do that in
software. :-)
(yet)
Even on a P200, its very quick in 400x300... on a P2-300? I have no
idea... quite fast I'd guess..
Mike
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schu
Evil Ninja wrote:
> Ok, I went a wee bit mad and bought a Creative Labs Voodoo 2, and
> immediately booted up the 3dFX version of Grand theft auto... One question I
> have is "Is that it?"... it looks, plays and feels idential to the standard
> version of GTA (in 24bit colour)??? Is there something I am doing wrong here
> or have DMA optimised the shit out of their standard code so its equally as
> fast on both platforms???
Actually it makes a huge difference on some machines... I have a pretty fast
machine and it still looks and moves faster on the 3dfx version...
c ya,
schu
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David Lees
Mike Dailly wrote in message <3523687d...@news.demon.co.uk>...
>"Evil Ninja" <evilni...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>If you have a FAST "cpu" then its about the same speed.
Yeah, You would say that, mad Mike :)
Are you by chance any relation to the Mike Dailly at DMA
author of the GTA graphics engine?????
>
>(yet)
David Paterson (Pixi)
"David Lees" <dl...@sol.co.uk> wrote:
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>Mike Dailly wrote in message <3523687d...@news.demon.co.uk>...
>>"Evil Ninja" <evilni...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>If you have a FAST "cpu" then its about the same speed.
>
>Yeah, You would say that, mad Mike :)
>Are you by chance any relation to the Mike Dailly at DMA
>author of the GTA graphics engine?????
And are _you_ by any chance the David Lees who sits about 6 feet from Mike
Dailly in the DMA R & D department?
David Paterson (remove anti-spam device to reply)
Mike Dailly
"David Lees" <dl...@sol.co.uk> wrote:
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>Mike Dailly wrote in message <3523687d...@news.demon.co.uk>...
>>"Evil Ninja" <evilni...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>If you have a FAST "cpu" then its about the same speed.
>
>Yeah, You would say that, mad Mike :)
>Are you by chance any relation to the Mike Dailly at DMA
>author of the GTA graphics engine?????
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In article <352de22d....@news.btinternet.com>, David Paterson
(Pixi) <david.p...@noluncheonmeat.btinternet.com> writes
>"David Lees" <dl...@sol.co.uk> wrote:
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>>Mike Dailly wrote in message <3523687d...@news.demon.co.uk>...
>>>"Evil Ninja" <evilni...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>If you have a FAST "cpu" then its about the same speed.
>>
>>Yeah, You would say that, mad Mike :)
>>Are you by chance any relation to the Mike Dailly at DMA
>>author of the GTA graphics engine?????
>
>Dailly in the DMA R & D department?
>
>David Paterson (remove anti-spam device to reply)
Are you by chance the David Paterson who used to work six feet from Dave
Lees who worked six feet from Mike Dailly and whom I used to work a
dozen feet from all of you?
Hey guys! Where's my complimentary copy of GTA! I must have worked on
the dialogue for all of a fortnight! The police tape on the cover of
Edge all those months ago now adorns the front of my PC.
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