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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: ex50014 on February 25, 2001, 05:17:00 AM

Title: 3dfx&nvidia
Post by: ex50014 on February 25, 2001, 05:17:00 AM

With nvidia taking over 3dfx is there a point in still purchasing 3dfx cards. I suppose updated driver support for the 3dfx cards will suffer greatly.

Title: 3dfx&nvidia
Post by: Ghosth on February 25, 2001, 08:52:00 AM

Well I don't know about anyone else. However where else can you buy a good 64MB 3d card for 116$? (yesterdays pricewatch.com)

As far as drivers are concerned, you are likely correct. Not likely to see new drivers
for these cards. However how likely are you to need new drivers????

Personally I'm not anticipateing moving to Win2k or other OS anytime soon. Existing drivers are good & stable from all I've heard.

Ends up being a judgement call.

Title: 3dfx&nvidia
Post by: TheWobble on February 25, 2001, 07:27:00 PM

v5 5500 with new Win Me, no driver probs at all.

Title: 3dfx&nvidia
Post by: SOB on February 25, 2001, 08:16:00 PM

I run a dual boot on my system with Win98 for Aces High and Win2k for everything else (including other games), and the latest drivers for the V5-5500 are working great for me.


SOB

Title: 3dfx&nvidia
Post by: Phantom121 on February 28, 2001, 04:53:00 PM

Just bought a v5-5500 works great in 98 and 2000. Had TNT2 - gained about 12 frames at 1024, so I upped res to 1280 and still gained about 2 frames overall. Visually, the 3dfx card just looks better than nvidia and I have been always been a fan of nvidia.

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Title: 3dfx&nvidia
Post by: whels1 on February 28, 2001, 05:03:00 PM

 

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Originally posted by Phantom121:
Just bought a v5-5500 works great in 98 and 2000.

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kinda like buying a car with no spare parts or new parts available ever, if something goes bad, ur up a watermelon stream without a paddle( SOL).

just like me with my Aureal based sound card. they went belly up, no support now for ever, and no place to send it for repair work if needed.

whels

Title: 3dfx&nvidia
Post by: Phantom121 on February 28, 2001, 05:09:00 PM

True, but if it fails I can alway go back to tnt2. (heck at the prices they are selling for now, buy 2 and keep 1 for a spare. I got aureal sound card also  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif))


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Title: 3dfx&nvidia
Post by: ex50014 on March 01, 2001, 03:48:00 AM

i just thought that game developers would stop developing games to take direct advantage of 3dfx cards as many do now. I suppose that trend was coming to an end with the advancements of direct3d though. I guess it dosnt matter since they are so damn fast either way. Oops im babbling now
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