quake 2 rendering comparison

Here's the same scene, rendered with the software engine, and then again with the hardware (openGL) engine (with a Riva TNT card).  Some differences: the hardware engine has colored lighting, while the software has only white lighting.  The hardware engine also has texture smoothing. 

software:

hardware:

(the hardware image was shrunk from 800x600 to 640x480.  Note that the hardware running at the higher resolution is still much faster than the software running at the lower resolution.)

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