Carmacks new .plan update, talk about the NV30 and the R300

[Alientank]

http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=1&time=20030129210315

I know there is another thread but it is so low detailed that this one I felt should have been posted.

[Zoost]

"There are some more things I am playing around with, that will probably remain
in the engine as novelties, but not supported features:
"

Yes, I like novelties. I remenber that Quake had charactershadows as novelty. I never understand anything of the techtalk. But if JC talks about: Bump mapped ambient lighting, Renormalization of surface normal map samples and of course Per-pixel reflection vector calculations for specular, instead of an
interpolated half-angle, I just want to have it.

And I know what card to buy

[The_Tonx]

So basically he's saying that NV30 is a little better performance (gaming) card at the cost of noise level and big price.. I have R300 (Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 PRO) and it's quiet as hell! I don't think I want to upgrade it to NV30.. :p

[AndrewB]

Noise is a BAAAAAD thing, very very bad. The computer I am using now... 90% of the time, all fans are turned off. And the hard drive becomes inaudible while listening to quiet sound on the speakers or with headphones.

Don't underrate quietness.

[GS-1719]

My Doom machine will be built with quietness in mind - quiet fans, insulated case. GeforceFX is no longer a feature for more reasons than just performance reasons now.