Does the 3DLabs Wildcat VP970 have Hardware T&L?

[Calaf]

I looked around at their site but couldn't find if it did or not...would be nice to know since Star Wars Galaxies requires it, hehe.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I'm pretty sure it does. Thats a realy expensive card so if they didn't you'd be better off with a Radeon 7000. So yes, I don't know for sure, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't.

 

[Calaf]

Great! Thank you much 🙂

 

[BenSkywalker]

I looked around at their site but couldn't find if it did or not...would be nice to know since Star Wars Galaxies requires it, hehe.

It has hardware T&L, but will almost certainly be horrible for SWG. The Wildcat boards are not any good at gaming(to put it mildy). If you want a workstation board that can handle games, look at the FireGL or Quadro series of boards.

 

[Idoxash]

I'm gussing only cuase of the drivers are not coded for games but another thing to ask is... I thought they were going to put out a gaming chip? I was looking forward to see how this thing works in games but I guess they decided not to do so...

--Idoxash

 

[Rand]

It has no 'fixed function Hardware T&L' unit, if that's what your asking... but then neither do most current explicit gaming boards.
Just as with the R9XXX line and the GF FX it emulates HW T&L through Pixel and Vertex shaders.

It's pixel and vertex shading abilities are extremely advanced, in many respects they are beyond even the Radeon 9700 series, though they cannot claim full VS/PS 2.0 compliancy.
The VP970 on average performs a bit below the GF2 Pro... though that can vary dramatically.
FWIW, the VP 560 tends to marginally outperform the VP970 in many gaming applications primarily owing to the benefits of SlipStreaming which have been shown to provide considerable benefits in many games.

As has been said, none of the WildCat line is a particularly good gaming card, though the VP series is certainly much faster in games that 3DLabs higher end WildCat 4.