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Updated info and file, please read.

Since the video out is disabled in the Mercury drivers the video was capture by the following method.

VGA output from Mercury PC was run to second PC equipped with Canopus Spectra 2500.

The Spectra has a "3dfx connector" VGA-IN port so a device without TV out can be run through the Spectra card which has TV output. From the Spectra composite out port the signal was run to a third PC equipped with a VoodooTV 200.

The two demos were captured as raw 320 x 240 AVI's and then converted over to MPG-1 format at an 1800 bit rate.

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Voodoo 6000 file now un-posted, one demo file.

Perhaps FalconFly would like to host them if you did not get them by now, need to give my service a break.

Have to remember it's a single 200SBi, not a full Mercury and the V2 doesn't have a T-Buffer to smooth the image out further.

Very Nice. Excellent Work, Gary!  8)

Regards,
Oscar

Is this motion blur effect something only 3dfx cards could do well?

???

First off I like to say. Did you guys read the process Gary had to go through just to capture the demo??

Gary is the only one that can actually see what it TRULY looks like on the monitor.

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Gary, You have a V5 6K. Load the motion-blur up on that machine and let us know how it truly compares with the mercury system.

I read somewhere a long time ago that before 3dfx had the V5 6K running they were showing off a non-functional 6K at a trade show and had a Mercury system running the Quake3 to show off the V5 6K's capabilities. I read it somewhere on the net, donno if it's true?

Yep, That's the T-buffer.

I've heard that on the the earlier geforce cards 256 & GeForce 2 when you tried to do motion-blur, you got the same result. Looked like 4 of 5 images lined up.

Not sure because at the time I was enjoying my Voodoo 5 5500.

So we have FSAA on the Mercury, just no T-buffer effects. I can live with that 8)

3dfx always did have the best FSAA (Rotated Grid).

Well a 4500 would have only one T-buffer compared to a V5-6000 which would have four.

I'm encoding a 6000 Q3 demo now at 640 x 480, I'll see how it comes out soon.

Ofcourse  does a Voodoo4 4500 have a T-Buffer, because how would a 5500 have two T-Buffers?

It's because it has two VSA-100 chips so it is very logical that a Voodoo4 4500 has one T-Buffer because it has one VSA-100 chip, only on the 3dfx Voodoo4's it has been disabled and Powercolor's Voodoo4's have it enabled.

So it's also logical that a Voodoo5 6000 has 4 T-Buffers and the AALchemy 8164 has 8