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To: Michael G. Potter who wrote (7966)10/7/1998 3:47:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson  Read Replies (1) of 16960
 
More Issues with Tom:

Referring to Unreal:
Banshee does for some strange reason only run with patch 209, the original release wouldn't work with it, neither patch 216 or 217.

This is the second place where my Banshee experience directly contradicts Tom's. I had zero problems running Unreal's 217 patch on my Raven.

TNT has quite a problem with Unreal right now still. Decent game play is possible at 640x480 and that's it. Any higher resolution makes Unreal run that sluggish, that it's really no fun to play.

The problem here is that the framerates that Tom reports as "sluggish" include 29fps (800x600 400Mhz) which is perfectly acceptable for Quake2 at the highest resolution. Where's the cut off point Tom?

You will see that the 3Dfx products don't look as shiny when playing in the same ballpark as TNT, which is Direct3D.

"Shiny"? Voodoo2 is one year older than TNT. What is this statement doing in an objective review of hardware?

(continued... Tom's server is bogged now)
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