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First post, by Kahenraz

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I'm looking at expanding my collection to some of the earlier models but I don't want to collect anything that I can't ever see myself using. For NVIDIA I think TNT2 is a good stopping point and can't think of a good reason to use anything earlier. Likewise for ATI prior to the Rage 128 or XL.

When considering game and driver compatibility, is there any reason to use any of these earlier cards if the later (TNT2 or Rage 128) is available?

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Reply 1 of 9, by BitWrangler

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Not really I guess unless you want official and mature Win 3.xx drivers.

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Reply 3 of 9, by Oetker

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Well with the Rage Pro and related chips you can mess around with games that support the CIF api, however be warned that it's a pain in the butt:
https://gona.mactar.hu/ATI3DCIF/

Reply 5 of 9, by The Serpent Rider

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Riva 128/128ZX - flawed drivers and buggy rendering.
Riva TNT - more or less identical to TNT2, just slower, but capricious to CPU speed and motherboard chipsets.

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Reply 8 of 9, by Gmlb256

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Being able to use UniVBE for RIVA 128 (especially the non-ZX variant)? I've never seen anyone testing this with that card due to being VBE 3.0 compliant.

This never really worked on TNT cards and will include VESA resolutions that aren't normally supported by nVidia cards such as 400x300 and 512x384. VBEPLUS with UniRefresh or VBEHz may somewhat address this problem but I find them inferior compared to what UniVBE offers (especially centering the screen).

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Reply 9 of 9, by Tetrium

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Is there any reason to use pre-TNT2 from NVIDIA or pre-Rage 128 from
ATI?

There may be if the graphics cards you want to perhaps ever use need to be ISA or VLB.

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