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To: Plaz who wrote (12946)	6/1/1999 8:24:00 PM
From: Patrick Grinsell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

<<The V3 is wired such that it can only render textures from it's on board memory. It does transfer texture data from main memory to the card at AGP2x speeds, but it has to transfer them before it can draw them.>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't AGP have to transfer the data to the card before it can be drawn too? The way I see it there are two options: AGP texturing: Main memory => Video Framebuffer Non-AGP: Main memory => Video Card Texture Memory => Framebuffer Since Voodoo3 uses a unified memory architecture, the framebuffer and the texture memory are the same. Why can't the drivers just transfer the texture directly to the framebuffer area? What am I missing? Pat