Leon:
"My poor, dilluted friend"
1) It's spelled "d-i-l-u-t-e-d"
2) The word you want to use in this sentence is "deluded"
3) Anyone ever try Nutella on cinnamin graham crackers? boy that stuff is good.
"It relies to much on cpu, and proprietary compression format (8bit palletized textures). "
IIRC, nvidia is the only one of the "big 3" that doesn't support 8-bit palletized textures. That's been pretty much open-season for several years know, although I could be wrong. I mean, the voodoo2 supported this, and it isn't licensed, so....
now then, back to the subject at hand....if it has WinME and Win2k performance close to the Ultra, I might consider buying it.
If it has the big discrepancy between ME and 2k that the Radeon does, I'll buy it, but only if it is significantly cheaper.
I'm thinking about picking up an Ultra, but after the poor 2d experiences I had with both my GTS cards, I'm just not sure I wanna go for it.