wow I can feel the love emanating... ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Holt Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What causes/caused the overflow error w/ATI cards I, and 30713.616 people now hate you :^)
Nathan Taylor wrote:
> 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.
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>
>
> 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
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>
>
> ----- 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 :^/
>
>
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