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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:34:10 -0500
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At 10:29 PM 11/16/97 -0600, you wrote:
>The way I understand it, any card with an OpenGL driver will run
>GLQuake--3dfx is not the only chipset that will do it. So, if you get
>some card with such a driver,
>like the FireGL or something (I think the ATI has a driver in NT only) you
>should be able to play GLQuake...it probably won't be as fast as the
>Voodoo, though, unless you get a very expensive card.

The nVidia RIVA chipset scales with the processor a lot more than the 3Dfx
chipset does.  On a Pentium II 300, the RIVA slightly beats out a 3Dfx in
GLQuake, and does better in Direct 3D.  However, the 3Dfx seems to have the
largest feature set.  To end this thread, everyone go check out the
following pages:

Zanshin's GLQuake Dojo - http://www.planetquake.com/gldojo

Tom's Hardware Page - http://www.tomshardware.com

						- Grendel

