Re: 16mb or 64 mb max tex memory on RE2

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Brian Furtaw (brian++at++sgi.com)
Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:57:39 -0500

No its still only 16MB of texture memory, you just have 4 RMs doing the
texturing of the scene instead of one. The speed changes not the capacity.

Brian

On Jan 22, 5:06pm, Martin Reddy wrote:
> Subject: Re: 16mb or 64 mb max tex memory on RE2
>
> The RealityEngine2 can accommodate up to 4 RMs, so if you have four RM5's
> then that's 64 MB of texture memory in total.
>
> Martin.
>
> > > An internal debaate has generated a question (basic) for the group.
> > > Is the maximum texture memory on a Reality Engine 2
> > > 16mb or 64mb?
> >
> > To my knowledge the Relity Engine2 graphics supports to kinds of raster
> > managers:
> >
> > RM4 (4 MB texture memory)
> > RM5 (16 MB texture memory)
> >
> > So the maximum amount of texture memory available on the RE2 is 16 MB
>
>
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