I got this from the forum at voodoo source. What do you think this means?
The user wrote as follows:
I recently was in electronic Boutique looking at the VisionTek GeForce cards when my friend Mike, who is the sales rep came over and said hello. We exchanged hellos and how you been's, but then he asked me what I was looking for and told him I was looking at the GF3's. I told him I saw some demos of the Direct3D and OpenGL games they had running in the store on them and saw how good they looked. The next words that came out of his mouth almost gave me a heartattack. He said, and I quote, "NVidia's video cards do not have Direct3D capability." I was like, "Mike, what the hell are you talking about," needless to say several customers gathered around to listen too. He explained it this way:
"Nvidia cards have DirectX capability but that doesn't mean they have Direct3D capability. NVidia uses a D3D emulator called a Normal Image Processor. Basically its a DirectDraw rendered display put through various buffers and tri-linear filter to give it a blurred look, but there is no Direct3D period. To achive FSAA multi-sampling it adds various subroutines to the NIP to clarify the image and further smooth the display. This is also why multi-sampling suffers a greater frame drop than any other video chip. If you look at the NVidia driver sets and read the manifest you'll notice a DDraw32 driver. This is a Hardware Accelerated DirectDraw NIP rendering driver, and thats it. If you look at various older games such as Final Fantasy 7 and games older than that that use Direct3D you'll notice there is no NVidia support. There are patches especially for NVidia cards but this only removes the hardware Direct3D or a Hardware DirectDraw NIP display. So if you are wanting Direct3D support for a game I suggest you either get an ATI, 3dfx, S3, PowerVR, or Matrox based video card."
Needless to say one kid who was standing right beside myself and Mike put the GeForce3 back on the shelf and picked up a Kyro2 instead.
Well, I downloaded the zipped drivers from NVidia and took a look and he was right. There is a DDraw32 driver but no Direct3D driver at all. I also noticed what he meant when I looked at my old Final Fantasy 7, and other games too. There is no NVidia support. I wonder who would dare challange this but if you do look at the drivers there is no Direct3D driver at all period
The user wrote as follows:
I recently was in electronic Boutique looking at the VisionTek GeForce cards when my friend Mike, who is the sales rep came over and said hello. We exchanged hellos and how you been's, but then he asked me what I was looking for and told him I was looking at the GF3's. I told him I saw some demos of the Direct3D and OpenGL games they had running in the store on them and saw how good they looked. The next words that came out of his mouth almost gave me a heartattack. He said, and I quote, "NVidia's video cards do not have Direct3D capability." I was like, "Mike, what the hell are you talking about," needless to say several customers gathered around to listen too. He explained it this way:
"Nvidia cards have DirectX capability but that doesn't mean they have Direct3D capability. NVidia uses a D3D emulator called a Normal Image Processor. Basically its a DirectDraw rendered display put through various buffers and tri-linear filter to give it a blurred look, but there is no Direct3D period. To achive FSAA multi-sampling it adds various subroutines to the NIP to clarify the image and further smooth the display. This is also why multi-sampling suffers a greater frame drop than any other video chip. If you look at the NVidia driver sets and read the manifest you'll notice a DDraw32 driver. This is a Hardware Accelerated DirectDraw NIP rendering driver, and thats it. If you look at various older games such as Final Fantasy 7 and games older than that that use Direct3D you'll notice there is no NVidia support. There are patches especially for NVidia cards but this only removes the hardware Direct3D or a Hardware DirectDraw NIP display. So if you are wanting Direct3D support for a game I suggest you either get an ATI, 3dfx, S3, PowerVR, or Matrox based video card."
Needless to say one kid who was standing right beside myself and Mike put the GeForce3 back on the shelf and picked up a Kyro2 instead.
Well, I downloaded the zipped drivers from NVidia and took a look and he was right. There is a DDraw32 driver but no Direct3D driver at all. I also noticed what he meant when I looked at my old Final Fantasy 7, and other games too. There is no NVidia support. I wonder who would dare challange this but if you do look at the drivers there is no Direct3D driver at all period
Hehe... That's why some experts worked as sale reps and not good for much else, mumbo jumbo is the only technical requirement.
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