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Title: Wicked3D Voodoo2 already had Driver T&L (?!)
Post by FalconFly on 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 :o

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.

Title: Re: Wicked3D Voodoo2 already had Driver T&L (?!)
Post by Fantasma on 22.04.03 at 00:07:06

Are there any similar driver for v3? ;D

Title: Re: Wicked3D Voodoo2 already had Driver T&L (?!)
Post by IG88 on 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

Title: Re: Wicked3D Voodoo2 already had Driver T&L (?!)
Post by procerus on 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. ;D

Title: Re: Wicked3D Voodoo2 already had Driver T&L (?!)
Post by nudgegoonies on 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?

Regards,
Andreas