From: Michael Cox (mcox_at_cdinc.net)
Date: Sun Feb 08 2004 - 13:28:18 PST
On Sunday 08 February 2004 07:35 am, Mark Rollins wrote:
> Re: games - it's kind of sad how this drives things.
Oh, I don't know...it used to be that graphics workstations drove the video
card market (slowly, that is). In the last 5-7 years, the rapid-fire
development for gaming video has in turn trickled UP to workstations.
Now-a-days nobody thinks twice about real-time rendering. I remember when
that was pretty much the Holy Grail of animators.
I'm not much of a gamer (Q3A networked to my wife's [Deathwench's] machine),
but we've benefitted by being able to buy (nVidia) cards for under $100 that
are lightyears ahead of what I remember the industry was using not too awful
long ago.
mc
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