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To: Marc who wrote (8378)	10/16/1998 2:45:00 PM
From: Michael G. Potter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

A year ago you didn't need a 3d card to play most games. Now you do. Even a 2d hit like Diablo is being enhanced with 3d effects for the sequel release. Only a very small subset of card companies compete in this area. Michael

To: Marc who wrote (8378)	10/16/1998 2:55:00 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 16960

I see your question. who were the 30 manufacturers of 3d accelerator for graphics cards last years under 1000$ It is somewhat misleading (yourself as well as others). The misleading part is the "3d accelerator" part of your question. Remove it and adjust for gramer and you are set ;D (try it and see if you can tell what I mean before reading the rest) What I mean is that even though last year there were not other 3D accelerator card makers last year, you could run 80% of the top 20 games on any graphics card from anyone. So they were competing with 3Dfx because why would you want to buy a 3Dfx card, when most of the games ran on other cards which were cheaper. This is not the case anymore. If you look at the top 20 games of '98 (including the Christmas ones), more than half of them will require decent 3D acceleration. And that means that you can only run them on cards from 3Dfx, nVidia, ATI, or S3. Period. In fact, if you want to be sure that any game will run on your card, you have to go with 3Dfx. So the competition has been greatly reduced due to the changing nature of the software games, and not (significantly) due to the changes in the hardware world. I hope this clearifies it. Have a nice weekend everyone. I'll see you when I get back to U.S next week. Sun Tzu