EQ's direct3d support is hideous. I suppose part of that is the fact that
there are just so many different cards out there for the standard, and not
all of them support basic features. When we are finalling a game, our
programmers go through and actually make special cases for some of these
cards. Certain ones will report that they can do a certain type of fogging
in hardware, when in actuality they can't. Verant basically dropped a d3d
renderer in the game and said "go"
That said, I agree the Geforce destroys 3dfx hands down, but on games that
are primarily glide enhanced (ie: EQ) the voodoo is still the way to go.
Optimally, get a Geforce and keep your voodoo2, or hell grab one at the same
time, they're only like 60 bucks now. And then you can still run glide only
games, or games like EQ that are biased towards glide. It pained me to take
the geforce out and put my V3 back in, but crashing to the desktop every 5
minutes on a Nagafen run made for a pretty cruddy gaming experience for me.
I also really missed the mipmapping feature, and the gamma options for glide
are much nicer. I play a monk twinky, and there's nothing I hate more than
being without ultra/infravision searching for something to kill in an
outdoor zone at night.
> Verant, like all wimpy cover-our-butts developers, will NEVER say they
> "support" anything new that comes out. They just cannot be bothered to
try.
>
> That said, just because they don't "support" a particular card does not
> mean it won't work. I have the GE Force card and it works great in
> EQ. What Verant is referring to when they say they don't "support" the GE
> Force is that EQ will not take advantage of many of the benefits of GE
> Force. The software has to be designed from the ground up to take full
> advantage of the on-board processor. But the GE Force will work fine with
> EQ and probably every other game out there.
>
> Buy your card looking to the future. Do NOT buy Voodoo - 3dfx and their
> "our way or the highway" attitude is finally catching up to them, and
games
> are coming out that no longer support Voodoo. Good. I am fed up with
> arrogant hardware manufacturers.
>
> Riva and the TNT/GE Force is the way to go. The cards are faster than
> Voodoo, and games will soon be taking advantage of all the GE Force has to
> offer.