Jason Costomiris on Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:50:39 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [Plug] GeForce vid cards


On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 10:38:59AM -0500, Mental wrote:
: Quake3 at the highest detail settings, 32bit everything, trilinear filtering,
: and stencile buffered shadows is _almost_ playable at 1600x1200. Its 
: more than playable at 1024x768. The same cannot be said for 3dfx cards.
: They're limited to 16bit color.

Given the fact that the human eye has trouble distinguishing beyond 
about 16.5 bits of color, I'll take the 16 bits, and have faster play
thanks...

: And the fonts 
: will finally be decent :) 

What's wrong with the fonts today?

: Yes. XFree4 FINALLY has support for true type
: fonts. 

XFree 3.3 supports true type right now, today.

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                 Jason Costomiris <><
            Technologist, cryptogeek, human.
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