Recent content by DemonFlight

Hi gang, I have in my possession a nice Diamond Fire GL 4000 PCI video card. Used to be quite the item some years ago. Got it for giggles for about 10$. In any case, it has either 15 megs on-board of video ram and 4 megs of cdram (in a removeable 168 pin sdram looking chip) or the other way...

>>Their reasonably capable in 2D gaming situuations, but very few games are strictly 2D anymore. << Not being much of a gamer, can you explain further? I was under the (apparently false) assumption that games such as Starcraft, Nox, Diablo, et al, didn't make use of 3d runtime routines, where...

Rand- Thanks for the info. You mention this: >>The rest of the FireGL line, and pretty much any 3DLabs cards are not at all viable gaming solutions.<< Are you referring to *just* 3d level games (quake, et al.) or 2d as well? If 2d as well, can you explain further? Thanks DF

(Note, the forum seemingly ate my first attempt at posting this, so apologies if it shows up again) This post is going to ramble, so bear with me. I'm interested in some high end video applications, most notably programs like Bryce 4.0, 3d Studio Max, Maya, etc. Obviously with such...