actually, it aint micrsofts fault. When voodoo went bust, all the drivers went (I think a company (nvidia?) bought the rights to them or something) and so no new XP drivers couldnt be written.
So actually its voodoos fault :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 7:43 PM 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. > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
