Re: [hlcoders] What causes/caused the overflow error w/ATI cards

[Nathan Taylor]

I'm sorry, the truth can't be helped...    I had a Voodoo 5 until Xmas, on which I got my GeForce 3 Ti200, love at first site.  The Voodoo 5 doesn't work with Windows XP, its extremely incompatible and it's just plain ugly.  I mean I haven't seen the Voodoo 3 but the Voodoo 5 is a monster of a card, about 10 inches long with 2 fans and it requires it's own power supply whereas the Geforce 3 is about 5 inches long, one fan and twice the functionality.   Granted, there are plenty of users with the Voodoo series and they should be tended to, but look at Microsoft, they didn't shive gits about the Voodoo series when they released Windows XP, maybe it's about time that the rest of the development community to follow.   Now I am not saying it is necessary to have a massively 1337 system, I am only saying that it may be about time for people to upgrade to the times.   -Lakario Master of Slashdot Fodder   ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Holt Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What causes/caused the overflow error w/ATI cards   > I have a simple suggestion.  Voodoo died, get a new card. Nope - bad response.   You just told 35,000 people "sorry, but we don't want to help you". You've read Valve's hardware survey, haven't you?  the one at http://valve.speakeasy.net/survey/  Read it - because it's not always what you expect.  Eg, 50% of users have 128 MB of RAM or less.  Only about 15% of users have a 1 gig or faster box.  Most ppl (22.5%) use a Riva TNT2.  5% use Voodoo 3.  Only 52% use AGP (which means 48% are PCI or what's on their mother board). It would be great to design a game aimed at 1.5 gig boxes with 512 MB and Geforce 3 on AGPx4, and T3 connections - but it aint reality. Now back to Voodoo 3/3k.  You could just say "We don't support Voodoo 3/3k" with a MOD, but let's do a little math first.  639867 people answered the survey.  4.8% have Voodoo 3 cards.  That's 30,700 people you just told were SOL.  That's a lot of people. Ah - crap.  I think I just hijacked my own thread and turned it into another slashdot worthy ramble :^/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com