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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (27642)	1/5/1998 10:33:00 AM
From: charles moore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580197

Kevin: I guess I was right on the 3D Monster being a link to the existing card and apparently that was what my friend was talking about when he stated" that with the card he had before he couldnt even play some games but with the S3 virge he could play Quake but not the special effects so he was probably referring to Open GL . Since he had been talking about playing QuakeII and Descent II but with the previous card he got the Special effects but couldnt play other games and had to exchange it for the S3 Virge and could then play all his Games but not the full Potential of one or two then I assume he had a card that took advantage of that but also limited him in other respects. He did mention fx so that might have been some card that supported that so it would then seem that you would then need a card that was an S3 Virge and a link card that would let you play the game but take advantage of the Special effects and when you didnt need the GLOpen aspect then the Link card would not come into play but you could still paly all games.This would then mean that they are working on one card that will do both or only a few Specialty cards are available now that will do both as a Stand alone card. Charles