idspispopd wrote:Besides from probably not very many PCX2's sold they only work on Windows 9x. No NT/2000/XP, no DOS (except TR1), no Linux.
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Besides from probably not very many PCX2's sold they only work on Windows 9x. No NT/2000/XP, no DOS (except TR1), no Linux.
I suppose most people who would sell their card when not using it any more will already have done so for this reason alone.
Same holds true for Rendition cards. (Riva 128 too, but those were more common, work on NT 4.0 and maybe Linux.)
Rage Pro cards work on 2000/XP, even with 3D acceleration, and they were really common, especially with OEMs.
Yeah, the PCX2s are locked firmly into Win9x. They sold, they ran games as they were released, and as time went on everybody but people like us forgot about 'em. Rendition's support is a little better - there's a driver in X.org with native modesetting, but nobody's ever gotten the 2D acceleration working reliably. I've got no idea about the Riva 128 in Linux, though there was an experimental, very old driver released under the Utah-GLX project that probably hasn't been poked or updated in years. Nouveau has no interest in supporting it either.
As for the Volaris... Ugh. Those were genuinely awful cards from top to bottom. The 256 MB Volari V5 I bought around 2005 is the only card I ever returned in less than 24 hours. In Half-Life 2 it was slower than a GeforceFX 5200 with half the memory bandwidth and showed ugly visual artifacts all over the place, and for some reason the OpenGL driver deliberately refused to expose supported functionality to Doom 3 so it ran in the ugly fallback ARB compatibility path. 2D video playback was just fine, but everything else was pathetic.