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Technology Stocks : GTIS - Will it be a Phoenix or not ?
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To: Mister Pink who wrote (1826)3/24/1998 1:03:00 AM
From: Chris McConnel  Read Replies (2) of 2319
 
Mister Pink:

>>> Nowadays the closest thing to a 3D standard is the Voodoo chipset made by 3Dfx <<<

Have you tried out Intel 740 3d based card yet (assuming game developers get the stuff first.) Over in John Carmack's plan he seems to be giving it great reviews, saying it's as good or better then Voodoo1. Wondering if Intel is going to clobber everyone else. Since they make most motherboards, they will probably start putting the 740 right on the motherboard, and nobody will need one of the other 3d cards. Seems to me there will be a real shakeout for the 3d card makers.

Also should be a boon to game developers. DirectX seems to be problematic for many and if the 740 captures most of the market, developers could write to it directly or use the 740 OpenGL driver.

>>> I'm familiar with the multiplayer game industry, and they've been talking about how much money they will make "someday." <<<

What do you think will be the hit games, going forward. Someone (think it was Buddy) on this thread suggested that FPS were becoming boring. Not sure if that's true, but it seems like there is glut of these games coming out, thanks mainly to Epic's and Id's licensing deals.

Thinking out about, given the 3d performance and processing power available now, seems like there must be ways of using that power that no one has thought of yet. Wonder if, for the industry to grow, they will need to start thinking up new kinds of games.

- Chris
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