From: "Opiate" <opiate@escape.ca>
To: <ml@qoole.com>
Reply-To: ml@qoole.com
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 09:10:19 -0600
Subject: Re: AGP and GLqoole/quake

all because your new computer supports agp dosen't mean you have to use it.


Opiate

> 
> Ehh... I have a Monster 3D card and I am soon upgrading too Pentium II
> 300MHz, does this mean I have to sell my Monster 3D card??? Or can I use
it
> and forget about the AGP thing?
> 
> 
> >> the riva gets 39.9 fps on a P2-300 on an LX board. the viper agp gets 
> >> 40.9 fps (which is the fastest on the charts of 640x480x16.  
> >> the funny thing is, my p-100  (overclocked to 133) gets 45 fps average

> >> under the same conditions..  check the charts..  
> >> 
> >> 
> >>>>> The nVidia RIVA chipset scales with the processor a lot more than
the
> 3Dfx
> >>>>> chipset does.  On a Pentium II 300, the RIVA slightly beats out a
> 3Dfx in
> >>>>> GLQuake, and does better in Direct 3D.
> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> 
> >> >> I am about to buy a new PII and have a choice AGP cards.  The sales
man 
> >> 
> >> >> just told me the Number 9 revolution (4mb) uses the RIVA chipset. 
Will 
> >> 
> >> >> this AGP card play glquake and therefor GLQOOLE? He also told me my

> >> 
> >> >> monster 3d add on card would not work with an AGP card.  
> >> 
> >> >> I checked out the gldojo and found almost nothing about AGP cards. 
> >> 
> >> >> (its a little early I know). If anyone knows please fill me in.
> >> 
> >> >
> >> 
> >> >Well, it definitely won't work for GLQoole; GLQoole works ONLY with
3dfx
> >> 
> >> >cards.  But the RIVA *may* work with GLQuake; check the dojo for
info.
> >> 
>