Which 3D card to purchase?

[Michael Gilbert]

I am interested in purchasing a 3D accelerator card for mainly
gaming purposes. I have a P-120 w/32M RAM and a #9 Motion 771 w/4M
VRAM. I am leaning toward a Verite based board (either Intergraph
or Creative Labs) because I am a huge Papyrus (Indycar2 and Nascar2) fan
and a Quake fanatic. I just have a few questions.

1. How does the 2D and Windows 95 performance of the 3D-Blaster/Reactor
compare with my #9? I have yet to see any benchmark comparisons
between my card and ANY 3D accelerator cards. (I know the Blaster just
came out, so no comparisons have been done yet; but it would be
interesting to do this comparison) I have several DOS games (USNF, ATF,
Longbow, GP2) which arent 3D accelerated. (GP2 has such slow
framerates, how would it be affected by the new card?)

2. If the Verite board is not as fast, is there any way to use both
cards on the same computer? (i.e. be able to switch back and forth
without physically replacing the cards) Or, is there an Verite 3D
add-on board coming out in the near future to use with my 2D #9?

3. Also, I've read where people were planning on buying both the 3D
Blaster and the 3Dfx Voodoo cards. Would that configuration accelerate
both Rendition-ready and Voodoo games/software, with good 2D support?

4. One final thing, does anyone know if the Intergraph Reactor card
comes with the Quake patch to upgrade the full version to 3D specs?
(like the 3D-Blaster)

Mike Gilbert
(wgil...@holli.com)

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