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Wicked3D Voodoo2 already had Driver T&L (?!)
21.04.03 at 21:00:55

I was browsing and following some interesting Links that turned up, and found some interesting Info's about the MetaByte Wicked3D Voodoo2 :

http://www.mindflux.com.au/products/wicked3d/tnl.html

They claimed a 40% performance gain, caused by their implementation of

Transform & Lighting

Quite amazing company, long before anyone even heard of today's "T&L", they got something like it into their Direct3D Driver to squeeze out a significant performance gain....

Even more interesting, that their current Driver at the time of the interview reportedly also worked on any other "standard" Voodoo2.

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Fantasma Full Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 176 Gender:	Re: Wicked3D Voodoo2 already had Driver T&L (?!) Reply #1 - 22.04.03 at 00:07:06 Are there any similar driver for v3?
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Re: Wicked3D Voodoo2 already had Driver T&L (?!)
Reply #2 - 22.04.03 at 01:54:33

they sound good have to give them a try but

`Can the your drivers/TNL Engine be used on your competitors' Voodoo2 products?

Currently, our drivers will install on our competitors’ board. However, our TNL Engine is disabled if it doesn’t detect a Metabyte Wicked3D featuring Voodoo2 board '

even the extra rez will be worth it on a single card , might have athlon probs with driver aswell . have to test them anyway

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procerus Full Member Offline Voodoo2 Monomaniac Posts: 189	Re: Wicked3D Voodoo2 already had Driver T&L (?!) Reply #3 - 26.04.03 at 23:06:10 That guy (Aosnovich) is the one who coded the mismatched SLI driver components. Probably had quite a hand in WickedGL too. Let's all ignore this thread and let it die. Because I'm waiting for two Wicked3D Voodoo2 cards to come up on eBay and I don't want any competition.
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Re: Wicked3D Voodoo2 already had Driver T&L (?!)
Reply #4 - 28.04.03 at 21:58:50

"Are there any similar driver for v3?"

Couldn't that T&L feature for Athlon's and Pentium III' that i've found in some third party Voodoo³ drivers be similar?

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