I had a Radeon and hated it. I had to get rid of it beucase the Win2000 drivers sucked, Rune had no object textures and Diablo2 wouldn't run in D3D mode.
I've been holding out for a single chip Rampage becuase I expected it would be cheap...but looks like no go there now. I don't think there is going to be a value NV20 so that leaves me with a GeForce2 class card which don't impress me terribly...yeah they are "fast" but the image quality really isn't that much better than my Voodoo3 (excepting 32bit colour of course).
The Radeon does all kinds of nice image quality features, and is more than fast enough for me (I had one in my system remember so I know how fast it is). EMBM is really cool in games that support it (which I hope will incresae in number) and 4 matrix skinning and keyframe interpolation both look really cool to.
Also nVidia's 2D is pretty bad...and that's where I spend most of my time....so I'm looking at either a Radeon or an R200 Value....but I dunno..I'm still iffy because of the drivers issue...I plan to go to Whistler about an hour after it hits store shelves (I'm guessing that the time it takes me to grab it off the shelf, get home, and install it will be about an hour) and since Whistler is basically Win2000 I want good Win2000 support which the Radeon didn't have when I had it.
Well it's been nearly 2 months now since I had my Radeon...that's quite a long time in Graphics land it seems, so how are the drivers now?
I've been holding out for a single chip Rampage becuase I expected it would be cheap...but looks like no go there now. I don't think there is going to be a value NV20 so that leaves me with a GeForce2 class card which don't impress me terribly...yeah they are "fast" but the image quality really isn't that much better than my Voodoo3 (excepting 32bit colour of course).
The Radeon does all kinds of nice image quality features, and is more than fast enough for me (I had one in my system remember so I know how fast it is). EMBM is really cool in games that support it (which I hope will incresae in number) and 4 matrix skinning and keyframe interpolation both look really cool to.
Also nVidia's 2D is pretty bad...and that's where I spend most of my time....so I'm looking at either a Radeon or an R200 Value....but I dunno..I'm still iffy because of the drivers issue...I plan to go to Whistler about an hour after it hits store shelves (I'm guessing that the time it takes me to grab it off the shelf, get home, and install it will be about an hour) and since Whistler is basically Win2000 I want good Win2000 support which the Radeon didn't have when I had it.
Well it's been nearly 2 months now since I had my Radeon...that's quite a long time in Graphics land it seems, so how are the drivers now?
heheh ok well maybe not SW to V1..but V1 to V3 jump)
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