Reply 40 of 353, by swaaye
wrote:Ok I tested the Laguna 3D AGP.
The card itself is more or less DirectX5 compliant.
They are really skating the edge of compliancy from what I've seen. I found driver v2.0 last night on DriverGuide, which is many revisions past what I tested before. It's from late 2000 and yet it still can't display most games anywhere near correct. Quake 2 still doesn't run (I didn't look to see if there is any OpenGL ICD).
Even the stuff that does work is iffy. Their version of bilinear is one nasty approximation of it, for example. And the weird texture warping / jittering is a sign of more hardware shortcuts.
You should post the 3DMark99 image quality test results.
The version 2.0 driver has a changelog included and they list loads of improvements for many revisions. I imagine that the chip is just broken and/or really poorly designed if it still is a disaster after this many driver revisions.