Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2024-03-13, 07:50

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Laguna3D was not that early. And is d3d compatible just like Virge, which has it's S3d library on top. So I don't know what you mean by little software support. I see signs of excellence before Voodoo Graphics. Like 3D Blaster VLB pushing 800x600, Ultimate Race on Midas3, or VQuake.

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Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Posted on 2024-03-11, 12:22

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Since it's the very first chip of a huge company now, it's probably a good investment even. Good point if you have a wife. Works on my wife. To add something to the topic, how about Millennium and Mystique? These had clock ranges. Fast, at least in some ways. But Millenium supports only like one …

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Re: Weird GeForce 2 mx400

Posted on 2024-03-10, 16:10

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This is not some rare model. The big bios chip makes yours look ancient. Or even cheaper. Better backup the bios before doing anything else.

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Re: S3 virge dx vs software rendering

Posted on 2024-03-05, 08:54

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Kruton 9000 wrote on 2024-03-05, 07:10: ... I'm wondering if Virge can beat Voodoo? That is a fool's errand unless you minimize fill and texture operations, which does not correspond to any supported game or a reasonable setting, afaik.

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Re: What is the difference between the Rage Pro, Rage Pro AGP 2X, and Rage Turbo?

Posted on 2024-03-03, 04:38

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Spark wrote on 2024-03-02, 15:02: I would have hoped the rage xl would look more like the voodoo. It does.

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Re: What is the difference between the Rage Pro, Rage Pro AGP 2X, and Rage Turbo?

Posted on 2024-03-02, 13:21

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The Rage XL while too late for any serious competition wasn't bad. It's like the Rage IIC position few years before. Also the improved MPEG2 decoding was a good thing to have. What instead felt bad even for its times is the PCI version of the original Rage Pro in the old package. Maybe it seriously …

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Re: Why choose a Mach64 or Rage 2 over Rage 3?

Posted on 2024-02-29, 20:50

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Rage 3, or R3, is the codename of the Rage Pro chip and/or architecture. Rage XL chip is R3L. Rage 5 is a mystery to me. R6 became an architecture name, rather than a particular chip. The following architecture was still named in that tradition- R7.

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Re: What is the difference between the Rage Pro, Rage Pro AGP 2X, and Rage Turbo?

Posted on 2024-02-29, 08:17

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And XL finally filters alpha textures. It is not just a die shrink.

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Re: Poll. How did you handle AGP to PCI Express stepover?

Posted on 2024-02-28, 07:18

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Re: What is the difference between the Rage Pro, Rage Pro AGP 2X, and Rage Turbo?

Posted on 2024-02-27, 13:33

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XL has a better chip in more ways. Yet, there are none with 16 MB, I think in 1999, if it was possible to put that much memory on it, somebody would do it.

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Re: What is the difference between the Rage Pro, Rage Pro AGP 2X, and Rage Turbo?

Posted on 2024-02-27, 11:01

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https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?architecture=Rage+3&sort=generation if you look here you can see that there were some differences with bus width and speeds once the Rage XL was released but all cards used the Rage 3 GPU and all the ones you listed are identical aside from memory sizes and …

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Re: S3 savage 3D，most suitable platform is?

Posted on 2024-02-26, 09:12

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After my AGP troubles with it on BX440 and i815 I would turn to some solid Socket 7 chipsets.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-02-16, 07:25

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Mitchellin wrote on 2024-02-15, 23:15: Bought this badboy for £14 😁 I'm expecting under mx200 performance and severe texture issues... might make a video of the battle of the terrible pci cards: Radeon 7000 vs. SiS 315e. Hope you do. If it is 64-bit DDR, it might not be too bad.

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Re: Geforce 2 ti vs Geforce 3 ti

Posted on 2024-02-12, 20:27

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That is a solid guide. On top of my head, there were some TSOP MX460. I have a 64-bit GeForce2 GTS. By Manli, those amazing recyclers.

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Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2024-02-10, 04:53

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I need to push it to 90-100mhz to compare to voodoo 2 and Nvidia riva 128... ;) How about downclocking those two to Vérité levels? hahhaha yes but I won't do this, well, the idea is not to make the riva 128/voodoo2 bad, it's to make the Rendition to same level (well as Anthony's comment, it seem's …

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Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2024-02-09, 04:45

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LeCarl wrote on 2024-02-09, 04:26: I need to push it to 90-100mhz to compare to voodoo 2 and Nvidia riva 128... 😉 How about downclocking those two to Vérité levels?

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Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2024-02-08, 06:15

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LeCarl wrote on 2024-02-08, 04:11: When I did search for the ''best'' rendition V2X00 board I seen some board that came up. you think it's the Gpu or the memory that limit the overclock? (memory is twice the speed of the GPU...) The core:memory ratio can be switched to 2:3, so you can find the …

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Re: Is this a Rage 128 Pro?

Posted on 2024-01-30, 05:58

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It is a 64-bit card. Probably Pro, the stickers hardly ever lie. Amazing card, it seems it uses two ICs to make it work on PCI.

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Re: Which graphics card for Pentium Pro build?

Posted on 2024-01-29, 17:01

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TnL generation of games will be sluggish on a Pentium Pro.

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Re: Help with Tracking down drivers or demos for BitBoys / Tritech Pyramid 3D *Update, SDK/Demos, OpenGL MCD found!*

Posted on 2024-01-28, 06:02

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Awesome. Maybe 640x480 is the default and -5 sets 512x384. What happens if other numbers are put there?

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