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Re: Fast gouraud/texture polygon fillers

• Posted by M King <boot_me at GEOCITIES.COM> Nov 07, 1999
• 527 views

>I got almost exactly the same frame rates.
>
>
>Must have something to do with your graphics card...I'm looking for a new
one,
>how much was it?
>

$99.00 at Fry's Electonics, although there is a new version out, the Stealth
S-540 III extreme (this one is minus the "extreme" add in name) that is
clocked up a bit faster, and has slightly better performance.  This card is
not in the TNT Ultra class, but it is at the bottom of the new generation of
AGP 4x capable cards. It has really helped my old system, I can play quake 2
at 1024 x 768 at a very nice frame rate under OpenGl.  Diamond has good OGL
drivers also.  the card can probably be had cheaper, but with 32 megs of
sdram on board, it really has speeded things up for not a lot.  (has some
sort of new compression built into the hardware for textures as well, that a
lot of other cards don't even have yet although it is going to be used by
everyone.  It is already in Direct X)...nice card for the buck ...should be
less than $99 if you look around)
    Also I am thinking of a new GeForce 256 card, so maybe you are
interested in buying this one?  Might be able to work a deal, although not
for a while yet (can't afford the GeForce yet)
Monty