posted 01-30- 10:31 PM            

Werner

posted 01-30- 10:48 PM               

"After aggressively pursuing a wide range of options that take into consideration the interests of our creditors, our shareholders, our employees and our customers," said Alex Leupp, president and CEO, 3dfx Interactive Inc., "we strongly believe that to reduce expenses, sell our assets and dissolve the company provides the highest return to our creditors, shareholders, and employees."

"We expect that the combined technologies of 3dfx and NVIDIA will continue the legacy that 3dfx began in 1994, " Leupp continued. "NVIDIA is the number one supplier of graphics technology to the OEM market. With the addition of 3dfx's high-quality technology that leads the retail market, we believe the combination of the two will result in even greater PC graphics leadership."

This should answer your question.

One more thing to consider. If the coice is between a GeForce MXII and an ATi Radeon DDR card, the Radeon is the better card. But if you have a chance to pick up a full blown GeForce2, go for it.

BTW, you can get a ATI 32MB Radeon DDR card at z-buy.com for $100 (Retail version, not white box).

posted 01-31- 06:22 PM               

Even with the amazing build-up aside, B17 II was a huge disappointment to me. Even the things I thought would make it worthwhile proved to be a let-down. The virtual cockpit did not look and feel nearly as good as I had hoped. About the only good thing that can be said is that the crew animation looks great! Also, as a non-sim RPG type of a game it might be quite good, I can not day because I did not explore this area.

As far as the sim aspect, it completely fails to suspend disbelief. Everywhere you look you see signs that you are on a game board, not in a sim. There are odd model constructions that show the smoke and mirrors - the flight model feels like you might as roll dice and move five squares forward.

The terrain concept just does not work, clever try - but no cigar. The B17 model does not look even as good as SDOE's except in a few places right near the cockpit or the guns. Not being able to smooth-pan the cockpit with full control is a big minus for me.

And the crashing and ditching, suck-o-rama. Is this CFS? Or maybe ATARI's Defender? Oh sorry, I did not mean to insult Defender

But these notes are based on my sim ideal- clearly the trade offs they chose to make focused the "sim" on a different aspect than I enjoy. I would not argue that the spirit wasn't in the right place.. I really think they believed that they were on the right path...

If this game had on-line play then it might have reached another dimension- but I have always maintained that what they proposed would never happen- not because I believe it is impossible, but they did not sell it in a convincing way. They let on that they had no idea of how they could get what they wanted working and delivered in a reasonable amount of time.

The poster is cool though

posted 01-31- 11:23 PM            

a) Have a Banshee and a GeForce2 in the same machine and switch back and forth?

b) Run SDOE in d3d without the graphics (like the runway for instance) showing up all messed?

Werner