I have some of those,

but my experience is not very big.
You probably know they weren't the fastest in 3D applications...
but I know there was a special wrapper for those to play Quake1 😉

You can check more specs on my page:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592 … 42542968&type=3

i got also the Nitro DVD AGP,
do you have the Original DISC for it ?

i missing DVD Software for it, and Audio Support..
Graphics Driver is no Problem.

The Card right on the Top of the Image in the #2 Post is same as my Nitro DVD AGP

NO CD disc, I only downloaded the drivers from herehttp://vintage3d.org/driver.php#sthash.sP5ocN0S.dpbs
Haven't even installed the card in a system yet. Would be nice to have the DVD software too if that is not in the stuff on vintage 3D.

i also didnt install the card yet.
it seems the driver contains a video codec utilizing the mpact!chip 😮

i really would like to have a copy of the original disc shipped with this Card.. i also wrote with a russian collector,
but still have got nothing 😒

I hope to find soon the last PCI older decoder version on that photo to test how it runs compared to other similar cards..

Send Putas a PM. Maybe he will come by the thread.

DVD acceleration is in the driver. If you want their player it was called Entertainment Center. I don't think it is in those small ones I uploaded.

Yeah, i already figured that out i take a closer look at the inf files 😀
it seems it has intel indeo R3.2 Video acceleration too (IR32_32.DLL)

Do you know what the Audio Headers are for ?
Can i output sound with it ?
Looks like i can simply connect a 3,5mm Jack to the Line-Out, or is this only for DVD-Audio ?

Sound is not my thing, but the chip should be able to do anything, even if only as co-processor. If it has output then try it.

Did anyone test the DVD hw accelerator how it works? Quality, speed, cpu usage?

Thank

Not yet, i need to build some sort of test system first.. the card doesnt work correctly in my dual xeon p3 machine

Just got around to installing the STB Nitro DVD Chromatic MPACT2 card into a system, Celeron "mendocino" 466 MHz, Asus CUSL2(intel 815e), 2x 128 MB PC133 SD-RAM dimms. Windows ME. Tried out Phil's VGA benchmark, 3Dbench2 was blazing fast, 712.1 FPS, PCP Bench 137.3, but both DOOM & QUAKE were slower than the same system with 3D Labs Permedia2 and Matrox Productiva G100, Speedsys graphics score seems pretty awesome though at 197278 KB/s.
I did do a quick run of Final reality, everything rendered correctly & looked fantastic, the score was as follows:
2D image processing :4.32
3D performance : 2.76
Bus transfer rate : 3.35.

It won't run the benchmark for 3DMARK99 MAX(neither will the Matrox G100) I'm guessing this is either video RAM size(both have 4mb) or just old drivers(most likely, as 4MB laguna3D coped ok). But for such a old card I'm VERY impressed, if later drivers were available, I'm sure much more performance could be seen(i'm using the ones from vintage3d.org). I will try some actual games and give results for those soon.
Best,
Chris

4MB isn't a problem for 3DMark99. Lots of broken 90s hardware pukes with it. Maybe driver improvements could help in some cases but don't bet on that. 😁

BSA Starfire wrote:

It won't run the benchmark for 3DMARK99 MAX(neither will the Matrox G100) I'm guessing this is either video RAM size(both have 4mb) or just old drivers(most likely, as 4MB laguna3D coped ok). But for such a old card I'm VERY impressed, if later drivers were available, I'm sure much more performance could be seen(i'm using the ones from vintage3d.org). I will try some actual games and give results for those soon.
Best,
Chris

Did you try setting different resolutions in that benchmark? I rememmber that I had the same problem but I changed the resolution and it helped 😉 I used the 8MB version though.... so you may not be able to set to higher then 640x480 with only 4 MB of memory...