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To: Ben Wu who wrote (13617)	7/5/1999 12:52:00 PM
From: AJ Berger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

another Glide over OpenGL/Direct3d triumph from Avault's review of Descent 3 Perhaps the most impressive feature of all is the unwavering stability of the engine. The game did not crash once, I never got caught in a corner and at no time did a polygon split at the seams. There is one important caveat emptor, however. Although smooth at most resolutions, the Direct3D performance suffers from dropped frames at 1024x768 when things get intense, and the OpenGL performance is appalling. Glide is favored here, despite the engine's internal support for 32-bit color. There is an abundance of options to toggle, including terrain details, object complexity and rendering depth, and toning these down speeds things up. To get a consistently smooth frame rate with all options turned on, I had to drop the resolution to 800x600, something RIVA TNT2 users are hard-pressed to do. Nonetheless, Descent 3 is of a superior visual breed.