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If I remember correctly, the gaming / graphics wars started to heat up around '96, with the Nvidia / Rendition / 3dfx wars. I remember when games used to have
by manvsmachine 19y ago
If I remember correctly, the gaming / graphics wars started to heat up around '96, with the Nvidia / Rendition / 3dfx wars. I remember when games used to have Glide support separate from Direct3D / OpenGL. Interesting that ATI, who is Nvidia's only competition now, was really a non-player during all of the 90's.
- rms 19y agoATI did embedded graphics throughout the 90s though, right? It's interesting that they were able to step up from there to gaming/professional graphics.
- manvsmachine 19y agoWell, they also made the Rage and FireGL gaming / workstation 3d cards, they just weren't very good. The FireGL did a little better because there wasn't as much competition in the professional graphics world, really just the Quadro and, to a lesser extent, Matrox's cards. Wow... until I just wrote that, I had completely forgotten that Matrox ever even existed.