[OFB Cafe] Old video cards

[Daniel Cassidy]

On Jan 31, 2008 4:52 PM, Kris Deugau <kdeugau at deepnet.cx> wrote:
> Daniel Cassidy wrote:
> > The nVidia equivalent is the RIVA TNT2, but that doesn't support 8 bit
> > textures either.
>
> Eeep.  :(  Where did you find this documented?  I've done a bit of
> searching but haven't been able to turn up anything useful.

A google earlier for "8 bit texture" returned a couple of forum posts
complaining that FF7 didn't work on the TNT2. FF7 featured in almost
every result which is how I guessed which game you were talking about
:P.

There is apparently a patch for TNT2 support so maybe that will get
things working with your existing card?

> > It will definitely work with the 3dfx Voodoo3, which
> > is surely a better choice than the others in any case.
>
> ... assuming I can find one, since they're no longer made.

There are quite a few on eBay, at least in the UK. However, I'm
guessing you'd need the PCI version since you won't have an original
AGP slot on a newish machine, and the PCI version does seem to be
rarer :(.

Dan.