The only time a Voodoo2 or any other '3D accelerator" card would come in handy
would be when using a modeller that used Glide or OpenGL previews.  Those would
update faster and probably show textures more clearly.  I suppose if you were
composing in VRML, a 3D card would come in handy for navigating around the
scene in real-time (or as close as you can get on a 56K connection... what, you
don't have a T1 to your house?  Bummer... )

If you want to 'speed up' rendering, get more RAM, faster and larger disks, and
a faster processor (or processors!!); t'would also help to use an OS that
doesn't do a lot of CPU-hogging.

Timothy Farley wrote:

> I realize this message is very old, and this poor consumer has probably
> wasted a lot of money on a Voodoo card already, but I can't help but wonder
> why no one thought of the fact:
> A Voodoo/VoodooII card can not run in a window! This means it will have
> absolutely NO affect on POV-Ray, which is why it works only for games, it
> will not speed up, make prettier or otherwise, in any way, shape or form
> help you to buy a voodoo card, invest in another 8M card (I'm selling a
> FireGL Pro 1000 8M AGP :) but don't go for the Voodoo card, unless you want
> the games.
>
> - Tim -
>
> --
> Ross: It's the most beautiful, natural thing in the world.
> Joey: Yeah, we know, but there's a baby sucking on it!

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