Often times upgrading one part means going to a whole new computer, such as when the new part isn't supported by the motherboard, OS, or something else. With laptops it's often impossible to upgrade anything but RAM and disk. This means that a "$50 graphics card" isn't really available to everyone who has $50 and wants better graphics. I figure as long as Erik can still run FG on his O2 the backward compatibility is probably at an acceptable level. ;-)
BTW Erik, does your box use an R5k or R10k (cpu)?
Kris
Christian Mayer wrote:
Richard A Downing FBCS schrieb:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:52:49 +0200
Christian Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IMHO we should require a card with T&L setup as minimum, i.e. GeForce class. And they should be able to handle a reasonable texture size.
I totally disagree with this idea. Lots of life left in TNT2s. It's not good practise to 'require' too modern hardware. IMO.
Richard.
OK, the two cheapes cards I could find were of the TNT2 type (29 EUR and 34 EUR) - but the next more expensive one was for 39 EUR an GeForce2 MX 440. (1 EUR = roughly 1 USD).
Those are proces for *new* hardware. eBay should be cheaper...
At those cheap prices I can expect the people to upgrade when there's a need for it. And especially I can't expect to slow down development for the majority of the users.
This is even more the point when older cards are automatically taken care for (PLIB scales the textures down when necessary)
And still even more: a TNT2 can easly handle textures bigger than 245x256. Its precessor, the RivaTNT could already handle bigger textures (IIRC up to 4096x4096)
So I really don't think we should limit ourselves *here*.
I don't remember exactly when the first GeForce cards did show up. I think it was some time around 2000. That's 3 1/2 years ago. That is ages for graphic accelerators and not very modern.
CU, Christian
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