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| That's right,
the same company that has brought you dozens of game and
multimedia titles has jumped into the hardware business.
It's not a bad strategy; they can leverage their software
to push hardware sales, a sort of "one-stop
shopping" idea. Choosing the Rendition chip as the ASIC to build their product around was a wise choice. With it, Sierra On-Line can deliver a fully functional graphics board with excellent 3-D performance at a very low cost. |
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| Speaking of excellent 3-D performance, the Screamin' 3D sure screamed through our Direct3D tests, posting the fastest (by a small margin) Direct3D results overall among the Rendition-based competitors. The Screamin' 3D was even beginning to creep up into Voodoo range, but not quite. Playing Monster Truck Madness, Microsoft's Direct3D title was perfectly smooth and attractive, only showing some hitches when several trucks came onto the scene at once. | |||||||||||
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| DOS and Windows performance, like the other Rendition-based boards, was just mediocre, but definitely acceptable. All in all, we liked this card the best of all the Rendition-based products, as it featured a RAMDAC capable of supporting higher resolutions and refresh rates, as well as a nice game bundle. | |||||||||||
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VELOCITY 3D | STEALTH 3D 2000 | 3D BLASTER | INTENSE 3D | SCREAMIN'
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