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3dfx Interactive® Inc. (Nasdaq: TDFX - news) today announced that, as a result of its work with Microsoft® Corp., 3dfx´s Voodoo4(TM) and Voodoo5(TM) products are now fully compatible with Microsoft´s DirectX® 8.0 Runtime. DirectX 8.0 will bring a breakthrough level of real-time, photo-realistic graphics to a new era of games running on consumer PCs. The Company also announced that its next generation of graphics products will be fully DirectX 8.0 compliant, thus providing game developers and consumers access to next-generation DirectX 8.0 features.

``The 3dfx team has participated in developing and supporting DirectX 8.0, a product that Microsoft is immensely proud to introduce to software developers so they can enable new levels of 3D realism for Windows- based PC systems,´´ said Channing Verbeck, director of graphics and multimedia at Microsoft. ``Clearly, 3dfx´s involvement in the definition and development of DirectX 8.0 shows its commitment to 3D graphics software standards for the industry.´´

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