10 Sectors Contest

[Linguica]

Everyone loved 3DFX back in the early days of hardware acceleration. Back when the original Voodoo was pretty much all people had, people worshipped 3DFX. I remember that I wanted to get a 4-meg Monster3D to play Half-Life and Quake 2 on. However, then after the release of the Voodoo2, 3DFX started lagging. There was a bit of a time gap after the Voodoo2 where NVidia started releasing nice cards, and they were quickly catching up to 3DFX in terms of speed. Then 3DFX basically said "16-bit color is good enough for anyone," and a lot of people were incensed that NVidia offered 32-bit color and 3DFX didn't, so a lot of the bad blood against started there. Then, the Voodoo3 didn't offer a particularly significant improvement over the Voodoo2, and now we're past even the Voodoo4 and on to the Voodoo5. Lots of people think that 3DFX isn't doing anything really new (how high will the Voodoo series go after all?) and stupid promotions like the motion-blur screenshots of Q3 which looked just retarded haven't helped them either. Personally I have had a Diamond Viper v550 and a v770, and my next card will probably be a NVidia-powered one as well. Not to mention that NVidia's cards seem to benchmark higher. And that the Unreal engine only supports 3DFX cards well, which pisses a lot of people off and makes them hate 3DFX more.

[Bloodshedder]

Well, it's not 3DFX's fault that Unreal only supports their cards. It's Epic's.

[fen boi]

There was also the Verite rendition card, the voodoo card was faster and cheaper which is why the whole 3D thing started off.
I switched to Nvidia (TNT2 ultra) from a voodoo2 cos it couldn't provide 1024x768 or 32bit colour or a decent Opengl driver, the video quality of the voodoo2 was also pretty poor because of the pass through cable. I wouldn't mind the v5500 as i could then play deus ex (lousy unreal technology!)

[Guest Kinoshkana]

Well, two questions, I guess.

(1) If we submit multiple maps, is it possible for more than one of them to appear in the finished megawad?

(2) [building off of 1] If more than one of my maps DOES make it in, can I have them put in sequential order and consecutively?

[Guest Anonymous User]

Why is it that Linguica answers about 5% of the questions asked of him? I see so many questions asked about the contest that I'd like answers to as well and none of them get answered! This is a little odd to me.