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To: Eric Howard who wrote (7325)	9/17/1998 3:48:00 AM
From: Simon Cardinale	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

What Banshee2 will need. Well, I don't know if it'll be called Banshee2 or Banshee but I think that there'll soon be an AGP 2x Banshee with all the same features as Banshee. I think 32bit color will be a necessary feature for advertising purposes in the next generation, but I doubt if it's worth the performance hit. There are more important issues in overall picture quality (anti-aliasing) than that. It's one of those things you can easily discern if you stand still in Quake2 and look at the sky (banding in sunset colors) but until I can have 32bit color and framerates that never drop below 40fps it's not worth it. 3Dfx should implement it and have the option to turn it off. Rampage (or whatever it end up being called) should have geometry acceleration to take some tasks away from the CPU. They ought to work with Intel to have it fit Katmai's abilities and weaknesses, but also address failings of today's CPUs. 3Dfx has been one of the rare upgrades that dramatically increases performance and increases the lifetime of a computer (important since minimum requirements for games can ramp up fast). Geometry acceleration is an opportunity to continue this. Simon