What is hardware T & L? I am looking for a video card to play Age Of
Empires III. The requirements are a 64MB Video card with Hardware T & L

Doug

Something in the range of an nVidia FX card or GeForce 6... or ATI Radeon
9500 and above.
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"Doug" <doug57@www.com> wrote in message
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> What is hardware T & L? I am looking for a video card to play Age Of
> Empires III. The requirements are a 64MB Video card with Hardware T & L
>
> Doug
>

Transform & Lighting
http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/3dfx/glossary/
Onboard video cards are limited in what they can show and how they react in
a virtual 3D environ.


"Doug" <doug57@www.com> wrote in message
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| What is hardware T & L? I am looking for a video card to play Age Of
| Empires III. The requirements are a 64MB Video card with Hardware T & L
|
| Doug
|
|

T & L stands for Transform and Lighting, it's specifically means your video
card must have this capability built into the chipset of the card. Think ATI
or nVidia video cards as "the" choices. I know the earliest ATI card with it
is the Radeon 64 DDR VIVO (7200) because I have one. I don't know what card
is the first to have it on the nVidia side, my TI4800SE certainly does.

Nowadays a "newer" neccessity has reared it's head for some games. The need
to also have a "Shading" engine incorporated into the card. My older ATI
card doesn't, my newer nVidia does. Keep this in mind when/if purchasing a
new video card.


"Doug" <doug57@www.com> wrote in message
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> What is hardware T & L? I am looking for a video card to play Age Of
> Empires III. The requirements are a 64MB Video card with Hardware T & L
>
> Doug
>