Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics

Posted on 2012-07-29, 07:36

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DiME is a lot more then DMA, both are distinctive options of AGP. swaaye wrote: The problem with S3 of course is terrible D3D support (and no OpenGL), but Rendition isn't much better frankly. I strongly disagree, V1000 does wonders compared to Virge.

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Re: Rendition cards CGL compatible?

Posted on 2012-07-25, 11:47

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Indeed I screw up, probably got confused by different settings stored by different executables. Nice video.

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Re: Diamond Edge 3D 3240

Posted on 2012-07-22, 05:01

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I thought there was a Direct3d driver for NV1, most games fails because of no z-buffer though.

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Re: New computers with an IDT WinChip or Rise mP6?

Posted on 2012-07-22, 04:58

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A had a Winchip 200 after DX4 120 MHz and it was solid upgrade. I considered it Pentium 100 with better price/performance.

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Re: Matrox Impression IS-Athena

Posted on 2012-07-22, 04:43

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elianda wrote: So what about this 3D Wireframe Acceleration? ATHENA R2 was first "home" 3d acceleration chip, but it cannot do texture mapping. Same 3d engine was in first Millennium. Few games with Goraud shaded polygon graphics were bundled. Can you check with dxdiag if Direct3d acceleration is …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2012-07-18, 07:54

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There is a DirectX 3 driver for Midas3, would be nice if somebody could share it. http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail. … ?driverid=18994 Just when I found this and decided to buy one from the auction they sold out 🤐

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Re: FRAPS for W95?

Posted on 2012-07-16, 06:37

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1.9d runs fine in my win95

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Re: matching CPUs to GPUs - Rules of Thumb?

Posted on 2012-07-16, 06:35

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Aha, I know nothing about software renderer.

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Re: matching CPUs to GPUs - Rules of Thumb?

Posted on 2012-07-14, 23:10

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kool kitty89 wrote: even though TR was limited to 640x480 max No it wasn't. Resolutions are special, it cannot be said we can max them even today. If games read registry to offer any resolution supported by the machine we can play after decade games of today at resolutions our graphics cards cannot …

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Re: matching CPUs to GPUs - Rules of Thumb?

Posted on 2012-07-14, 11:44

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I tend to spend some 30-50 percent more on graphics card then cpu, but I also probably overshoot the graphics a bit, at least compared with average custom builds. I like to upgrade one part at time, picking good deals, without much concern for balance of the particular setup.

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Re: Hardware issue or just the games?

Posted on 2012-07-13, 14:14

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Unreal does not need more ram. Is there something specific in the skipped place? Try other renderers, settings and drivers.

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2012-07-04, 09:09

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I would not analyze PCX under OpenGL, as Carmack said PowerVR did some heroic work to make it compatible.

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Re: two s3 virge/vx cards

Posted on 2012-07-01, 05:05

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leileilol wrote: The Kyro could've came earlier! Not according to my book. Neon 250 was delayed by NEC's manufacturing capacity, not R&D.

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Re: Rendition cards CGL compatible?

Posted on 2012-06-26, 08:01

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I ran CGL Fatal Racing on my Canopus Total3D and IIRC also non-Creative Laguna3D.

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Re: well-hated geforce2 GTS rocking 3dmark99max?

Posted on 2012-06-19, 05:24

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3dfx had over-optimized their cards for Glide, so their weaker D3D/OGL performance then hurt them as well. How optimized? Focusing on marketing over hardware innovation and trying to push their proprietary PhysX API around are two of the big ones. There is no alternative to PhysX, it is exactly the …

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Re: Performance advantage of voodoo 3500?

Posted on 2012-06-16, 18:33

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Sage was vertex shader 1.0 part with some other functions, so I would restrain from calling it a TnL chip. First batch already went to Nvidia's hands. The big hope of 3dfx was also Mojo. If there were money I would not write them off.

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Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures

Posted on 2012-06-11, 06:31

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Dithering influenced by application is usually Gouraud shading smoothing. It may affect final image but is not really related to frame buffer dithering. elianda wrote: Aha, so it does the RAMDAC filter in software on the grabbed framebuffer? I am not sure how it works.

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Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures

Posted on 2012-06-10, 05:15

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Hypersnap can capture post filter image from Voodoo2 up.

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Re: Graphics card investments over the years

Posted on 2012-06-08, 06:42

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subhuman@xgtx wrote: 2012: GTX680 Tri-SLI now I want to know your display setup

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Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures

Posted on 2012-06-08, 06:36

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Color precision cannot be reduced to comparison of basic functional parameters and it seems to me you did not yet got even those right. Both Voodoo and Vérité are dithering into 16 bit. From what I've seen I would put my money on V1000. Rage is certainly not an IQ contender.

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