You are both right.

John is right, Everquest doesn't take advantage of the T&L hardware in
GeForce. EQ is a DX6 app and T&L was added in DX7. OpenGL apps, e.g.
Quake123, do take advantage of the T&L acceleration however.

Jeff is right, GeForce does offer a significant boost over TNT2, with
nearly twice the fill rate. This translates directly to improved
framerates at higher resolution.

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Jeff Illian wrote:

>
> > Bear in mind that 99.9% of the games out there do not take
> > advantage of the GeForce's improved hardware (transformation
> > and lighting is still handled by the CPU). This includes EQ.
> > While a GeForce will give you a moderate speedup over a TNT2,
> > it will not give you the huge boost in speed you see in some
> > reviews.
>
> Here I would DEFINATELY disagree... sorry. Why? Because my brother
> in law has the same setup with a TNT2 and my wife has the same setup
> with a Voodoo 3 3500. I can do things with my GeForce at 1024X768
> that they can't hope to achieve at 640x480. There is a HUGE
> performance increase that is VERY noticable if you have your
> computers side by side as I do. Let's take a 24 person raid on Kedge
> Keep as an example. Chat off, particle density off, same setup on
> all 3 computers and they were both lagging and had much much lower
> frame rates at 800X600 then I. I was as smooth at 1024x768 as I
> would have been had I been the only one in the zone.
>
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