Official RIVA thread

[Dean Roddey]

These days, I would imagine that most of these clients have more graphics oomph than servers do. And you have to remember that the clients can do it with graphics card accelaration assistance, whereas the server has to do it with the main CPU, which isn't nearly as adapted to that sort of work.

But, anyhoo, it's kind of a moot point, since the clients are doing the drawing themselves, so only they have the means to scale the raster contents. The server can't do that for them.