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From:Hans-Joerg Frieden
Date:30 Apr 2000 at 20:32:30
Subject:Re: Heretic II Demo Available

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Mark Olsen wrote:

> The chip can texture map as fast in 32 bits as it can i 16bits

I never tested it, but I highly doubt it. It would need to write
longwords instead of words, and it would require twice the memory
bandwidth. Given the fact that with non-optimized textur surfaces
there are wild pixel errors, I doubt the RAM access is fast enough for
that.

Regards, Hans-Joerg.



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