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microsoft didnt have the source for the win2k drivers did
they?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 1:49
PM
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What
causes/caused the overflow error w/ATI cards
Yes and no. Yes, nVidia bought all 3dfx assets and yes that meant
no more drivers, but also if you looked around a little it was easy enough to
find slightly modified hacked Windows 2000 drivers put out by the 3rd party so
it is only logical to say that Microsoft could have edited to 2000 drivers
themselves if they wanted support for the Voodoo series.
Lakario
----- Original Message -----
From:
Tom
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 5:52
AM
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What
causes/caused the overflow error w/ATI cards
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
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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 :^/
> >
> >
>
>
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