Ilene Fabisch wrote:
> Can someone explain exactly what a voodoo card will do for the computer.
> I've never really understood video cards. My display seems fine without.
>
> --
I don't know what a Voodoo card will do in YOUR Mac but this is what it does
in mine.
I have an old Daystar clone based on the 9500 motherboard. I took out the
4-meg Mach 64 ATI card and put in a 64-Meg Voodoo5 5500 card.
When I run applications like SimpleText and Quark where the picture is for
the most part static, there is no difference.
When I run software that creates a video virtual reality the scan is so
smooth and vivid that its like looking through a window.
When I run things like MacProphesy I get dizzy with the feeling that my head
is beind twisted around as the perspective smoothly swoops and turns through
the scenery. When the video is choppy or looks like a series of static
images being presented at a rate of two beats per second its hard to get
into it because it does not resemble any known reality. Smoothly flowing
video, no matter how unusual the setting, looks like its actually happening
in front of you, like a movie.
Higher video quality brings suspension of dis-belief.
Mike
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