Just a point here. While EQ does not support all of
the newer features in video technology (and you can
reference Brad's interview discussed yesterday...), a
lot of the newer cards sport advanced redering
techniques and better processors.

So even if EQ doesn't support everything the card
does, a newer, more advanced card will usually run
graphics faster than an older card.

--- Jeff Illian <jeff@...> 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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