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To: Stuart C Hall who wrote (10634)	2/11/1999 7:26:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

It starts... Here's nVidia giving tons of credability to an obviously false rumor just to make TDFX look more like "Big Brother." ======================= Andrew Logan, Director of Corporate Marketing for NVIDIA Corporation, has presented a reply to the report that STB will not release Detonator based drivers, and that they may cause system damage due to features built into the Detonator drivers. Here is what Mr. Logan sent in response to our earlier news item: Thanks for forwarding on this question from one of your readers regarding a claim made by STB. For the record: 1) We exhaustively test all of our driver releases across all of our board partner's products, including STB's Velocity 4400, and this problem has never manifested itself. 2) The clock frequency of the 3D processor, including the RIVA TNT, is controlled by the BIOS not the respective driver. Loading a new driver can improve performance through software without a change to the clock speed of the hardware. 3) We can understand if STB may not want to support the Detonator driver officially, since it conflicts with its new business model of being a 3Dfx-house. Having their customer's RIVA TNT-based board perform to its fullest potential hurts their new strategy. Best regards, Andrew =========================== From planetriva.com. This is the third time I've seen this guy try to charactize an alledged 3Dfx's business practice in a bad light without knowing the facts. He did it with 32-bit color and AGP texturing also. Slick. Disgusting, but slick. Chip coolhistory.com

To: Stuart C Hall who wrote (10634)	2/11/1999 7:33:00 PM
From: Stuart C Hall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Regarding the CREAF custom engineering team in my earlier post. I'm reminded of Chris Rock when he talks about "brothers" who try to take credit for stuff "they're supposed to do." As in, "I feed my kids and take care of them." YOU CAN'T TAKE CREDIT FOR THAT!! THAT'S SOMETHING YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO!!! "Or, I've never been arrested." NO EXTRA CREDIT FOR YOU, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO GET ARRESTED. This whole thing about CREAF initiating a team to support their products and optimize drivers sounds like Chris Rock's skit. CREAF can't take credit for stuff they're SUPPOSED TO DO. If you haven't seen the skit, you have no idea what I'm talking about. As Chris would say, KEEPIN' IT REEEEAL. Stuart