Volari looking a little better.

[VIAN]

Driver Heaven

 

[MournSanity]

No. Just NO.

XGI has a lot of work to do in order to compete with ATI/Nvidia.

 

[batmang]

that card has s#it written all over it.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

This is all I have to say about the Volari.

- M4H

 

[Viper96720]

Not it'll go the way of the dodo.

 

[Schadenfroh]

i told you that this would amount to nothing when we first started hearing about it

 

[Sylvanas]

no no and more no. its hopeless!!! read xbits review of it. absolutely pathetic

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
i told you that this would amount to nothing when we first started hearing about it

So what?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
i told you that this would amount to nothing when we first started hearing about it

It's all about marketing, nVidia can sell crap like MXs, ATI can see crap like SEs...all about trixing the uninformed.

 

[boran]

well yes, but an MX aint $400 ... I mean, you can say whatever you want, but ATI nor nVidia actually overcharge u on their budget products eh, you always get what u pay for, pay less, get less, this card is pay more, get less...

I think it all comes down to experience, ATI and nVidia have such a big R&D department and a long history of cards, they know what works and what doesnt, and even when they fuckup (NV30 and NV35) it's not major (within 10% from ATI). a newcomer to the market shouldnt even try to aim for top performance, because it is unnatainable, which the volari proves, the card couldnt beat a kid with a pencil in FPS nor image quality.

 

[Keysplayr]

I hope your title thread was sarcastic Vian.

 

[Blastman]

Ya, they?ve moved up from ? utterly total crap ?to just ?total crap.:beer:

 

[ramulack]

I wounder, if XGI stops development of vid cards will these Volaris been seen a year from now for 2 grand on E-bay?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: ramulack
I wounder, if XGI stops development of vid cards will these Volaris been seen a year from now for 2 grand on E-bay?

Nah. The V56K had the "3dfx Nostalgia" factor, and it was a good brute-force solution. The Volari is just crap.

- M4H

 

[boran]

yes, the V5 6000 was a ledgend, I mean, its a total different situation. I compare it to the titanic, but not really sunken to the bottom of the ocean, but damnd close (a V5 6000 is not really usable anymore even if you'd have one, since most of em are quite eh beta hardware.)

 

[wicktron]

Give em a chance. They're trying to come up, you can't expect them to be perfect on first try.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: wicktron
Give em a chance. They're trying to come up, you can't expect them to be perfect on first try.

That's no excuse for a completely half-assed effort. They should have taken that few million they dropped on "Not one ... BUT TWO!" revolutionary advertising/spamming and slapped it across the face of their R&D team for implementing that ass-poor IQ hack in the drivers. Nice to see the FPS drop sixfold when the file gets renamed.

Edit - And on a slightly amusing note, VIAN posted the "AA/AF suck" thread and this XGI thread. Looks like he's found his card of choice - XGI hates AA so much they anti-anti-alias.

- M4H

 

[BFG10K]

Volari looking a little better.

They probably started rendering a totally white screen instead of a horrid version of the actual game screen they were doing before.

In the screenshot with the red circles those areas were just grey blocks when playing however were fixed by the screenshot.

ROFL. A vendor who performs speed vs IQ tradeoffs and is also kind enough to hide their tradeoffs when you take screenshots for a review.

 

[Soulkeeper]

it is so much like the voodoo5 just they are using a next generation memory instead of the old stuff


i think it might find a nicht but it won't cause a big upraor

 

[Soulkeeper]

it is so much like the voodoo5 just they are using a next generation memory instead of the old stuff


i think it might find a nicht but it won't cause a big upraor

 

[BFG10K]

It's nothing like the Voodoo5 because the Voodoo5 was actually a great product.

 

[nRollo]

It's nothing like the Voodoo5 because the Voodoo5 was actually a great product.

At the time I tried all three of the major cards, GF2 Pro, V5, Radeon VIVO. There wasn't a whole lot of difference between the three when you got down to the actual gameplay. More times change, the more they stay the same.

The V5 was a very cool card though.

 

[boran]

Originally posted by: wicktron
Give em a chance. They're trying to come up, you can't expect them to be perfect on first try.

like I said before, they shouldnt have tried to aim for the performance crown, and even worse, they shouldnt have cheated to make their $400 card look like it's up to par with an $200 card, which it aint, I bet the thing gets beaten to death by the intel extreme graphics integrated video. definetly in IQ

 

[Cerb]

...why didn't they accept that a good $200 card might be an option? As it is, it's like a Cyrix PR200 being sold for as much as a Pentium...sorry, but: no. Really, they should do more like S3's...it isn't the best, maybe, but if the drivers are OK, it can get their foot back into the gaming room, which is what is really important.