Glide

Why isn`t glide performance ever tested in video card comparisons?Alot of games use glide but I never see a voodoo cards glide performance shown.

Cuz Glide is 3dfx only, and most newer games use opengl now, even Glide is easier to code.

Hi Jonndo,

We can't really think of a Glide game that is a worthwhile benchamrk. As great as Unreal TOurnament is as a game, it's not a good benchmark.

The Turok2 thing is getting on a bit too...

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I wondered that too. And s3 metal too. I wonered how S3metal was, but NEVER saw an artile on it (except WELL before the s4 was new) and never saw a benchmark that used the Diamond Savage2000 (i dunno what its called) card with S3 metal. Too bad, now that the savage line of grafx accel.s are dead.

Yeah I hear you. The most strange thing about the whole S3Metal Unreal Tournament and Savage 2000 thing was the whole "no S3Metal driver support" for the S2000. Crazy...

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Originally posted by KR02:
I wondered that too. And s3 metal too. I wonered how S3metal was, but NEVER saw an artile on it (except WELL before the s4 was new) and never saw a benchmark that used the Diamond Savage2000 (i dunno what its called) card with S3 metal. Too bad, now that the savage line of grafx accel.s are dead.

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Originally posted by jonndo:
Why isn`t glide performance ever tested in video card comparisons?Alot of games use glide but I never see a voodoo cards glide performance shown.

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Well, for one thing, it's rather pointless as a general test of video card power. That is, Glide performance doesn't really translate to a large number of games, as few games support Glide. However, you can expect any game that does support Glide to offer a substantial CPU overhead reduction, as well as sometimes an effective fillrate increase (Due to closer management of the hardware). This is to be expected with any proprietary API.