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Author | Topic: Aureal 3DNow! drivers ??? |
Pieter Follower of Athlon |
posted July 08, 1999 17:54
HEllo guys Anyone heard anything about these my vortex 1 board is still waiting
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Adrian Priest of Athlon |
posted July 08, 1999 21:11
I emailed the guys at Aureal a few weeks ago and found that they were planning to support 3dnow! in their drivers for the Vortex 2 chipset (As I understand it the Vortex 1 chipset does not support wavetracing). The only catch is that they are not going to be doing this until the current Vortex 2 drivers are sorted out (2031 drivers have been sent to Microsoft for certification I read today) The way I understand it, both cards use the same a3d drivers, so maybe they are now in the works. To be honest though, the latest drivers used only a little processor anyway, so differences may not be noticeable until more complex games are out. Ive got to say to anyone though that a3d 2 is absolutely brilliant, and it turns Half-Life into a completely different game. Hope this helps adrian IP: Logged |
Pieter Follower of Athlon |
posted July 09, 1999 03:20
isnt the catch behind doing the drivers that the cpu doesnt need to swap from 3dnow instruction to regular instructions saving allot of cpu overhead ? Regards, Pieter IP: Logged |
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