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To: Michael Linov who wrote (9325)	12/1/1998 10:28:00 AM
From: Eric Howard	Respond to of 16960

The question of speed versus image quality also depends somewhat on the genre of games you are playing. In multiplayer Quake, Quake2 etc framerate is probably more important than anything else. However in an online RPG such as Everquest image quality might be more important. On VoodooExtreme there is a link to an article comparing Voodoo2 vs TNT on Everquest a new 3d online RPG which should be released in January. notcrazy.com The results he finds on the Voodoo2 are not encouraging and maybe this is the same kind of behavior which causes the Voodoo2 to be slow on Q3 arena. Personally I would rather play at 1024768 at 32 bit color then at 12801024 at 16 bit color. On Sunday VoodooExtreme also had some numbers on the on the ATI Rage 128 running on a P450. The fact that the ATI card seems to be able to run in 32 bit color without as big a drop in framerate as the TnT is both interesting and worrisome. It will be interesting to see some in-depth reviews on this card when it comes out. "Joystick, a french game magasine, scored some benchmark on ATI Rage 128 in the December issue. Here are the score (ATI Rage Fury / STB Velocity 4400) D3D 3D Mark Pro 99 640480 16 bpp 2909 / 2729 D3D 3D Mark Pro 99 640480 32 bpp 2529 / 2236 D3D 3D Mark Pro 99 1024768 16 bpp 1834 / 1495 D3D 3D Mark Pro 99 1024768 32 bpp 1493 / 1108 ------------ OGL Quake II 640480 16 bpp 65.5 / 76.2 OGL Quake II 640480 32 bpp 67.8 / 61.6 OGL Quake II 1024768 16 bpp 34.9 / 38.1 OGL Quake II 1024768 32 bpp 34 / 22" Eric