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The Voodoo2 was architecturally similar, but the basic board configuration added a second texturing unit, allowing two textures to be drawn in a single pass.
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Voodoo2 and was
However, due to the high cost and inconvenience of using three separate graphics cards ( two Voodoo 2 SLI plus the general purpose 2D graphics adapter ), the Voodoo2 SLI scheme, though revolutionary at the time, had minimal effect on the total market share that the Voodoo2 held and was not a financial success.
A single-chip solution, the Banshee was a combination of a 2D video card and partial ( only one texture mapping unit ) Voodoo2 3D hardware.
Due to the missing second TMU, in 3D scenes which used multiple textures per polygon, the Voodoo2 was significantly faster.
While it was not as popular as Voodoo Graphics or Voodoo2, the Banshee sold a respectable number of units.
Napalm would have been unable to compete with the GeForce, so it was redesigned to support multiple chip configurations, like the Voodoo2 had.
The TNT was designed as a follow up to the RIVA 128 and a response to 3Dfx's introduction of the Voodoo2.
Even in " OpenGL only " comparisons such as the case in Quake 2, The Voodoo2 had the upper hand as a custom " MiniGL " driver was made specifically for 3dfx cards to run the game ( and most other OpenGL games at the time ).
At the time, Quake2 was the benchmark for performance and the 3dfx-made Voodoo2 enjoyed a large performance difference over the TNT because it had 3DNow!
One alarming fact that many hardware review sites noted was that the TNT2 could still be outperformed by two 3dfx Voodoo2 running in SLI mode.
SLI from 3dfx was introduced in 1998 and used in the Voodoo2 line of graphics accelerators.
The Monster3D line was based on 3dfx Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2 chips-as such, they had no on-board 2D and thus had to be used with a separate VGA card, connected externally.
A critically acclaimed feature of the Monster 3D II ( and all other Voodoo2 boards ) was the capability to connect two identical boards in a SLI ( Scan-line Interleave ) configuration.
In real-world use it proved to be much slower than existing solutions like the Voodoo2, and was only able to hold its own with slower 2D / 3D cards like the Nvidia RIVA 128.
Voodoo2 and board
For the price of a second Voodoo2 board, users could easily improve 3D throughput.
* Diamond Monster 3D II MEGAMonster bundle ( Monster 3D II, MEGAMonster Voodoo2 companion board, MEGAMonster ( SLI ) cable ) ( a Voodoo2 SLI bundle offered by Diamond )
Voodoo2 and added
Unlike the Voodoo2 ( but like the slower Matrox G200 ) it also added support for a 32-bit ( truecolor ) pixel format, 24-bit Z-buffer in 3D mode, a 8-bit stencil buffer and support for 1024 × 1024 pixels textures.
Voodoo2 and unit
3dfx changed the rendering pipeline from one pixel pipeline with twin texture mapping units ( Voodoo2 / 3 ) to a dual pixel pipeline design with one texture mapping unit on each.
Voodoo2 and allowing
In SLI, a pair of Voodoo2 boards splits the effort of rendering the 3D scene, allowing performance to be nearly doubled.
Voodoo2 and two
In SLI mode, two Voodoo2 boards were connected together, each drawing half the scan lines of the screen.
Voodoo 2 cards also gained an even larger speed advantage over the TNT because of the ability to link two Voodoo2 cards together in an " SLI " setup.
Voodoo2 and textures
Trespasser used many textures for its mip levels and image cache, more than even the most advanced card of the time, the Voodoo2, could handle, and the game used the lower resolution textures in hardware mode instead of the high resolution ones available in software mode.
Voodoo2 and .
In 1998, 3dfx released Voodoo's successor, the popular Voodoo2.
The Voodoo2 required three chips and a separate VGA graphics card, whereas new competing 3D products, such as the ATI Rage Pro, Nvidia RIVA 128, and Rendition Verite 2200, were single-chip products.
Despite some shortcomings, such as the card's dithered 16-bit 3D color rendering and 800 × 600 resolution limitations, no other manufacturers ' products could match the smooth framerates that the Voodoo2 produced.
The Voodoo2 introduced Scan-Line Interleave ( SLI ) to the gaming market.
However, in scenes dominated by single-textured polygons, the Banshee could match or exceed the Voodoo2 due to its higher clock speed and resulting greater pixel fillrate.
Then 3dfx released word in early 1999 that the still-competitive Voodoo2 would only support OpenGL and Glide under Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system, and not DirectX.
Originally planned specifications should have placed the card ahead of Voodoo2 in theoretical performance for Direct3D applications, but at 90 MHz it didn't match the Voodoo2.
At the time, most games supported 3dfx's proprietary Glide API which gave the Voodoo2 a large advantage in speed and image quality, and some games only used the Glide API for 3D acceleration, leaving TNT users no better off than people who didn't have a 3D accelerator.
After all, unlike the rest of the competition, Nvidia had come close to the Voodoo2 in performance in some games, and beaten it in 32bit image quality.
RIVA TNT2's competition included the 3dfx Voodoo2, 3dfx Voodoo3, the Matrox G400, and the ATI Rage 128.
In games that supported the Glide API, Voodoo2 SLI setups were able to consistently perform faster and offer better image quality than the TNT2.
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One construction project was the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, the bridges of which were each designed as architecturally unique.
It was a capable and improved machine, and was more stable than the LINC-8, but architecturally was still an imperfect hybrid of a LINC and a PDP-8, full of many small technical glitches.
When a permanent station was built, it was architecturally unimpressive: a single low building on the north side of the tracks at the far west end, with footbridge access over the " goods loop " tracks to the two long platforms.
The building was architecturally adventurous, drawing on Paxton's experience designing greenhouses for the sixth Duke of Devonshire.
Rocky Hill Castle was an architecturally renowned plantation on the outskirts of Courtland, it was demolished in 1961.
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It was centred around an architecturally appealing 18th century building: the Radcliffe Observatory, which is modelled after the ancient " Tower of the Winds " in Athens.
The Yakima Buddhist Bussei Kaikan ( 1936 – 1941 ), on West 2nd Street, was an architecturally noteworthy building built by members of the congregation.
In the words of Steven Brindle the result was a " great and apparently architecturally unified palace ... uniform in all sorts of ways, as to roof line, window heights, cornice line, floor and ceiling heights ", echoing older designs but without any real defensive value.
The house was drastically rebuilt in the 18th century, when much of the earlier house was demolished and replaced with an architecturally dull building.
One result of these years of commercial dominance was the construction of a remarkable number of architecturally significant mansions and palaces by rich merchants of many nationalities.
This was reflected architecturally in the " proto-renaissance " style of its buildings.
Eventually, the planners realised that the exchange was not recoverable, forcing them to relax their building constraints ; they hinted that an " architecturally significant " building might pass favourably with city authorities.
In 1629 it was ordered that an architect supervise any construction and ensure that the new buildings were architecturally similar to the old ones, and the strict enforcement of this rule during the 18th century is given as a reason for the uniformity of the buildings at Gray's Inn.
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