Need for Speed — #19

Post #19 by alk

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Mon, 5 Nov 2007 - 06:34
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/need-for-speed.10429/

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Indeed! Marathon was written especially to take advantage of that chip. Gotta get your game on...

http://marathon.bungie.org/story/eWorldtrans1edited.html

FisherD : In the Demo and the real version of Marathon, there is an

option to accelerate the game for a Quadra 630. I've got a

630... what kind of acceleration does it provide, and how

do you do it?

Do you use the new video buffer chip?

BungieCorp : the quadra 630 and similar models have double-

buffered video hardware, and support hardware pixel-

doubling. the demo supports these modes, and lets you run

in 16bit low-res faster than 8bit low-res on an 840AV.

pretty cool. unfortunately this didn't work in the release

version and is being fixed. the patch will be released soon.

yes, we use the valkyrie chip.

FisherD : uh... English please?

BungieCorp : in english "the Quadra 630 rules if you write

directly to it's video hardware).

But on a 6400, it's probably smarter to disable the 630 acceleration as the PowerPC 603e chip can easily handle any quality settings Marathon 1 throws at it.

Peace,

Drew