Nvidia+3dxf=glide in GeForce?

[Monk506]

Hola amigos, this might have been adressed earlier, but...

With Nvidia purchasing 3dfx, does this mean that Glide support in exsisting Nvidia boards (geforce mx in particular) may come around sometime soon?

 

[Biggs]

That's a possibility but since there's basically a minority of games today that uses the Glide API, I think Direct3D or OpenGL would be the API of choice.

 

[cs1205]

glide is dead
go on with ur life
=D

 

[BFG10K]

(1) Glide has been open-source for many months now.
(2) There are several Glide wrappers already available for a wide range of video cards.

 

[mkk]

It would certainly be doable and it would be a nice little feature for their customers, but nVidia will never do that. They don't want Glide to live any longer now than they did in the past.

 

[Mem]

Nvidia have said they are not making any new API,so will keep with OpenGL & D3D for now unless there is a third party that comes along & makes a great API.

 

[PieDerro]

Glide would be VERY cool, especially for those of us (me included) who play the older type games, that ran sweeet on glide...

Need for Speed II is my favourite example, but Unreal is also good.

 

[RoboTECH]

glide is hardware specific to 3dfx cards. Whether or not nvidia owns 3dfx isn't relevant. They don't have "glide support" in the hardware, so the drivers will be nothing more than glide in emulation.

If you have games that support ONLY glide, grab y'self a V2 for $30, otherwise, just use D3d or OGL.