a bold predicition!

[Varborta]

NVIDIA's cards will eventually get GLIDE SUPPORT. duh...

now, nv20 will launch earlier now cuz of the #1 competitor gone.
no need to further polish it.

 

[cmaMath13]

I don't think that is going to happen. Glide is all but dead. No new software is written for glide. So what is the point? I personally could care less about playing Tribes or any other Glide only game.

It is very sad to see 3dfx go under. They started the 3D hardware acceleration movement!

 

[iamthebear]

That will never happen - all the developers are running away from Glide as fast as they can. Even 3DFX said it was dead and that DirectX was what they were focusing on.

 

[Varborta]

um, its still better than nothing, and Tribe2 only support OpenGL.
And, nvidia is so fast at written driver so it doesnt matter for that much
to add glide support.

 

[Deeko]

nvidia could have had glide support now, had they wanted to. Glide has been open sourced for a while now.

 

[RoboTECH]

i guarantee they aren't going to ever implement "true" glide support, i.e. "to-the-bone"

that would require some hardware futzing, and I can't see nvidia tweeking their hardware just to run oldass glide games