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To: Patrick Grinsell who wrote (8004)10/8/1998 4:12:00 AM
From: Simon Cardinale  Read Replies (2) of 16960
 
Patrick: 2d/3d thing

It's not because Banshee was late. They were reiterating it would be "the best 2d/3d at the time that it comes out" until recently.

Here's my take on it. They didn't realize nVidia would push TNT out the door before getting it up to at least 100MHz and before it was working with all popular motherboards. They intended to beat nVidia by a month. They would have done it if TNT hadn't come out before it was quite done.

In fact you could make a case that Banshee *was* the best 2d/3d at the time it came out, since it came out with flawless 2D before TNT got itself straightened out. Can you say the TNT was better while it was goofing up the colors in icons and web graphics? Maybe now after the drivers straightened it out, yes, but before?

I think the way 3Dfx worded the statement they made it clear that the emphasis was on the "at the time of its release" not 2 weeks later necessarily. Their point was to reassure us that the 2D would be top notch (it is) and 3D would be comparable to V2 (it is).

Simon
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