You can try these drivers: http://vogonsdrivers.com/dosearch.php?q=Volari

I checked all the XGI site archives. Only a single driver was archived.

The XP x64 driver version 1.09.68

pc-sound-legacy wrote on 2022-02-08, 23:49:

Hello friends, I recently got a Volari V3 and out of curiosity It'd played around with it. Does someone have such card and can p […]
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Hello friends, I recently got a Volari V3 and out of curiosity It'd played around with it. Does someone have such card and can provide the latest drivers for win9x and 2k? I found very rare information about this card and only one driver with poor performance. The way back machine has the xgi site but it's not compatible with modern browsers, thought.

I'm also interested in your experience with the card and it's performance.

Here are my results so far:

Q3 Timexemo 1 1024x786 high settings, 16bit textures and Z-Buffer, trilinear

Volari V3: 41 FPS
RV280 (Radeon 9250): 102 FPS

3DMark 2000 was scored something around 2700 as the RV280 managed to get around 5400.

Test system: Pentium IV 1.5 GHZ Willamette, 512mb SD-Ram and W2K.
Maybe the Volari demands a stronger CPU to perform better, but maybe it's just that slow:-)

The card has decent picture quality at least, supporting pixel and vertex shaders, bump mapping and texture compression. T&L unit is also slow in comparison with the ATI, High polygon count scenery has much lower FPS as well.

You don't mention what version you're using, but these are the latest I could find - V1.13.15(WHQL)

https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php … driverid=578549

The performance you see may reflect the truth, according to GPU database the 9250 has around double the raw power of the Volari V3, even the 9250 GPU clock is higher and the 128 bit memory bus of the Volari does nothing if the GPU can't make use of it.
Radeon 9250 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-9250.c45
XGI Volary V3 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/volari-v3.c1198
So other drivers could give better performance but don't expect wonders.
https://www.touslesdrivers.com/index.php?v_pa … d&v_mots=volari
In this site they have the same drivers that the ones on Vogons drivers, they are dated from 2006 and part of XGI was sold to Ati in 2006 so they may be the latest ones.
In this review even the dual GPU volari V8 proves to be a very bad performer.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050306082145/ht … xgi-volari.html

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2022-02-09, 09:17:

pc-sound-legacy wrote on 2022-02-08, 23:49:

Hello friends, I recently got a Volari V3 and out of curiosity It'd played around with it. Does someone have such card and can p […]
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Hello friends, I recently got a Volari V3 and out of curiosity It'd played around with it. Does someone have such card and can provide the latest drivers for win9x and 2k? I found very rare information about this card and only one driver with poor performance. The way back machine has the xgi site but it's not compatible with modern browsers, thought.

I'm also interested in your experience with the card and it's performance.

Here are my results so far:

Q3 Timexemo 1 1024x786 high settings, 16bit textures and Z-Buffer, trilinear

Volari V3: 41 FPS
RV280 (Radeon 9250): 102 FPS

3DMark 2000 was scored something around 2700 as the RV280 managed to get around 5400.

Test system: Pentium IV 1.5 GHZ Willamette, 512mb SD-Ram and W2K.
Maybe the Volari demands a stronger CPU to perform better, but maybe it's just that slow:-)

The card has decent picture quality at least, supporting pixel and vertex shaders, bump mapping and texture compression. T&L unit is also slow in comparison with the ATI, High polygon count scenery has much lower FPS as well.

You don't mention what version you're using, but these are the latest I could find - V1.13.15(WHQL)

https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php … driverid=578549

Thank you - this is the driver I have found and I'm using right now

The one I linked to is 1.16.02.

What was exactly wrong with this card? Bad gpu design, memory, other?
Did drivers play a bad role?

Nexxen wrote on 2022-02-09, 20:30:

What was exactly wrong with this card? Bad gpu design, memory, other?
Did drivers play a bad role?

I think you got what you paid for.

Nexxen wrote on 2022-02-09, 20:30:

What was exactly wrong with this card? Bad gpu design, memory, other?
Did drivers play a bad role?

Too late to the party, which meant they were only competitive in the low end, which meant wafer-thin margins, which meant they didn't generate profits.

Performance of the Duo V8 Ultra was about 2/3 of a Radeon 9800XT with lower image quality for about the same price, so didn't sell. Only the V3 was good value, with lots of features for its price - but you can't make a profitable GPU business if only your cheapest product sells.

dionb wrote on 2022-02-10, 15:12:

Nexxen wrote on 2022-02-09, 20:30:

What was exactly wrong with this card? Bad gpu design, memory, other?
Did drivers play a bad role?

Too late to the party, which meant they were only competitive in the low end, which meant wafer-thin margins, which meant they didn't generate profits.

Performance of the Duo V8 Ultra was about 2/3 of a Radeon 9800XT with lower image quality for about the same price, so didn't sell. Only the V3 was good value, with lots of features for its price - but you can't make a profitable GPU business if only your cheapest product sells.

Too little too late basically.
Thanks for the answer.

Hoping wrote on 2022-02-09, 11:25:

The performance you see may reflect the truth, according to GPU database the 9250 has around double the raw power of the Volari […]
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The performance you see may reflect the truth, according to GPU database the 9250 has around double the raw power of the Volari V3, even the 9250 GPU clock is higher and the 128 bit memory bus of the Volari does nothing if the GPU can't make use of it.
Radeon 9250 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-9250.c45
XGI Volary V3 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/volari-v3.c1198
So other drivers could give better performance but don't expect wonders.
https://www.touslesdrivers.com/index.php?v_pa … d&v_mots=volari
In this site they have the same drivers that the ones on Vogons drivers, they are dated from 2006 and part of XGI was sold to Ati in 2006 so they may be the latest ones.
In this review even the dual GPU volari V8 proves to be a very bad performer.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050306082145/ht … xgi-volari.html

There was also a 128bit version of the 9250, so the 9250 isn't necessarily a 64bit card. Depending on which version you have.