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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (63607)	6/28/1999 3:28:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1571685

Kevin - RE: "Too bad that the graphics companies are moving towards putting the whole 3D solution on a chip and taking the MPU out of the equation." That is good for Intel. I don't see any SSE-enhanced drivers out there that can give PIII's an about 40% performance increase, do you? AMD's 3D Now! has enhanced drivers, which actually give a noticeable performance boost, available from 3dfx, ATI, and Nvidia, the three largest consumer/retail graphics companies.

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (63607)	6/28/1999 5:52:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1571685

Kevin, re:<Too bad that the graphics companies are moving towards putting the whole 3D solution on a chip and taking the MPU out of the equation.> Not enough effort is being put into the physics simulation part of games. If you read the post mortem of the Trespasser game written by one of its developers, you'll find that they used very simplified models, but found that even that was too complicated to program, and probably too slow on any CPU. Real time differential equation problem solving is not likely to find its way into the graphics chips too soon. Petz