HW T&L emulation for Voodoo?!! Read this!!!

[Ultragunner]

here's the link:
http://nat.mine.nu:81/3dfx/forums/showthread.php3?threadid=1750

what do you think???

[Kane]

HW T&L works with Voodoo 5's with the bete drivers IIRC. What that program would be doing would be to map the T&L call to a soft function.

[fivefeet8]

Yeah.. 3rd party 3dfx drivers has an advanced option which can enable HW T&L.. Although I think it's just using your system cpu to do it, hence it's really just software T&L..

[Kane]

Yeah, but it uses more appropriate parts of the CPU I think, as my 3dMark 2000 score went up by enabling it.

[Chrono Archangel]

Hey everyone my card is a 3D Prophet 64mb pci and i tried playing Spiderman with it and it says that i need a T&L capable card. Is it the card thats wrong or do i need to update the drivers?

[Kane]

What chipset is it on?

[Iran]

since it done in software its better if its called Software T&L not HW T&L

[K.I.L.E.R]

Oh bloody heck!
"Software" T&L is done by the cpu. "Hardware" T&L is on the video card.

Of course genericaly they are BOTH done in hardware. Only difference is that the calcs can be run in 2 different types of hardware; CPU or Video card.

[Demigod]

By "hardware" we're generally referring to the videocard hardware. Anything done on the CPU is defined as "software".

[K.I.L.E.R]

That's the problem. It's not correct technical term to say if it's done on cpu it's software. Just say it offloads math off the cpu and on the video card. :) That's correct terms. ;) :) :P :D

[Ultragunner]

i must say i am very impressed with it. the next release will also emulate the vertex and pixel shaders!. now you will see the nature benchmark using our voodoo boards. i might actually try to test it with my geforce 4 MX and might get some high 3d marks next time.

[Ultragunner]

the new version is released!

it has now the pixel shaders!
get it here

http://www.tommti-systems.de/index2.html