Talk:Voodoo 5: Difference between revisions
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It is not a "DirectX Card," but your statement is not correct either. It's a 3D graphics card which supported GLIDE, Direct3d, and OpenGL. It is incorrect to classify this card by [b]any[/b] API, and certainly not as a "DirectX 6" card (you didn't HAVE to have hardware transform and lighting to run D3D7 programs, and it was released with D3D7 drivers, and D3D8 drivers came later). It is true that VSA100 did not have HTL and D3D7 supported it, but so did OpenGL. Does that mean the card was not an OpenGL card? |
It is not a "DirectX Card," but your statement is not correct either. It's a 3D graphics card which supported GLIDE, Direct3d, and OpenGL. It is incorrect to classify this card by [b]any[/b] API, and certainly not as a "DirectX 6" card (you didn't HAVE to have hardware transform and lighting to run D3D7 programs, and it was released with D3D7 drivers, and D3D8 drivers came later). It is true that VSA100 did not have HTL and D3D7 supported it, but so did OpenGL. Does that mean the card was not an OpenGL card? |
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-sigh- I still have my Voodoo 5 5500, collecting dust on a shelf in my closet. If only it was a DX7 card, I'd still be using it today.
Not a DirectX Card
It is my understanding that the VSA-100 series was actually an GLIDE card with DirectX 6 and OpenGL support. I still require citation on this, but it will mean a considerable rework of the Architecture and performance area in order to explain this better.
Nightkhaos 00:19, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
It is not a "DirectX Card," but your statement is not correct either. It's a 3D graphics card which supported GLIDE, Direct3d, and OpenGL. It is incorrect to classify this card by [b]any[/b] API, and certainly not as a "DirectX 6" card (you didn't HAVE to have hardware transform and lighting to run D3D7 programs, and it was released with D3D7 drivers, and D3D8 drivers came later). It is true that VSA100 did not have HTL and D3D7 supported it, but so did OpenGL. Does that mean the card was not an OpenGL card?