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To: Chip Anderson who wrote (12813)	5/20/1999 12:22:00 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 16960

Chip, your point is valid only for FPS games. However, Q3 and the like are a small portion of all the things that people do with their home computers. For many of us the graphics quality does matter. Consider all the RPG games, flight simulators, digital imaging and video editing programs, etc. None of them require high frame rates, but they all need as much realism as possible. Not to mention that there are other features which I'd like to see in a graphics card that have noting to do with game play. If you've ever had to match the colour between your photo, the scanner output, the image on your monitor, and your colour printer's output, you know what I mean. If you have not had to do that, let's just say spending 3 hours on a dentist chair in a more pleasant experience than that. Now I know that digital imaging is not the focus of 3dfx cards, but focusing only on FPS games is too narrow. Part of ATI's success is that their cards are good enough for most applications, rather than being superb for few. ST

To: Chip Anderson who wrote (12813)	5/20/1999 12:30:00 PM
From: Steve Chang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

> BTW: Anyone else see the blurbs from the nVIDIA guy saying that they > aren't interested in gaming any more? (Should I post this on the > nVIDIA thread? ;-) Nah...) They are trying to relegate TDFX to the "gaming ghetto". Of course, TDFX is doing a pretty good job of doing that with their advertising.

To: Chip Anderson who wrote (12813)	5/20/1999 12:51:00 PM
From: Eric Howard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Chip, Maybe you should go back and re-read the interview with John Carmack at Gamecenter. Here is one quote from it. J.C. "The fastest graphics card today is the [RIVA} TNT2. I don't think anyone will even question that. You'd be hard pressed to find an ATI or 3dfx engineer who, if you really got them into a corner, wouldn't admit that" gamecenter.com Unless a hardcore gamer has a huge position in 3DFX, he will buy the TnT Ultra over the Voodoo3. There is evidence of this opinion all over the web. In another month or two magazine reviews will start to publish these same opinions and in general the more informed gamers will probably buy a TnT2. 3DFXs huge advertising campaign will help for a couple months, but if their new product does not show up by September I believe their retail dominance will start to fade. It will be interesting to see the retail numbers in June for all the various card architectures. Eric