Generally the 3D acceleration of the S3 Virge/Trio 3D was a practical failure. There is way more coverage and info on the S3 Virge in that regard, I think you can lookup reviews of that Virge chipset and just take that as reference for the capabilities of your card, since Virge and Trio 3D do not differ much.

the problem with that card (and most, if not all of the early cards until the voodoo) is that it doesn't support many features that would become essential in 3d rendering, or the hardware acted as if it was broken, and the driver support was bad aswell as the api support.

here it is a review of the card:

http://vintage3d.org/trio3d.php#sthash.Zn37SxjL.dpbs

A few games were compatible with the Virge when it was released.

From what I've read so far the Trio 3D was badly outdated when it was released and lacked compatibility with old S3D titles that supported the Virge.

So there is no games that were made compatible with the Trio 3D? That is pretty depressing. A lot of people call the Virge the worst accelerator of all time, however the Trio 3D seems worse to me.

I have a 4MB Virge GX PCI. It's much slower when running with a Pentium III 450Mhz than a 4MB Permedia 2 is when running with a Pentium 1 133Mhz. Also the drivers suck, and there's no OpenGL support.

weldum wrote:

the problem with that card (and most, if not all of the early cards until the voodoo) is that it doesn't support many features that would become essential in 3d rendering, or the hardware acted as if it was broken, and the driver support was bad aswell as the api support.

here it is a review of the card:

http://vintage3d.org/trio3d.php#sthash.Zn37SxjL.dpbs

The biggest issue as pretty much always with S3 is drivers. They're buggy. Same from the ViRGE to the Savage 2000 (although the Savage 2000 actually had very decent performance).