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First post, by SuperHanSolo

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Ive been wondering if theres any information about ATI and 3Dnow support in their drivers ?

Theres lots of info for 3DFX and Nvidia but i cant find much about it for ATI other than mention that they would support it after Nvidia released their 3DNow drivers for the Riva TNT.

For the Radeon 7000 series lots of people seem to use the 4.x Catalyst drivers, which are quite mature, and some even use as new as 6.2 (all Win9x) .
A lot of the time with ATI newer the better. Personally i use 4.3 due to its good game compatibility but I wonder if with the later drivers 3DNOW was removed or phased out since by the late 2000s 3DNow support was already dwindling.

Win 98 Retro PC: AMD K6-2+ @ 550mhz, Mitac 5114VU motherboard, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000 PCI 64MB DDR
Win 95 Retro PC: Intel Pentium 233mmx, Elpina M571 motherboard, 32MB EDO RAM, Voodoo 3 2000 16MB PCI
Main PC: AMD Ryzen 7700x, 32GB DDR5-6000, Geforce 3080

Reply 1 of 2, by Falcosoft

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SuperHanSolo wrote on 2023-02-23, 07:35:
Ive been wondering if theres any information about ATI and 3Dnow support in their drivers ? […]
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Ive been wondering if theres any information about ATI and 3Dnow support in their drivers ?

Theres lots of info for 3DFX and Nvidia but i cant find much about it for ATI other than mention that they would support it after Nvidia released their 3DNow drivers for the Riva TNT.

For the Radeon 7000 series lots of people seem to use the 4.x Catalyst drivers, which are quite mature, and some even use as new as 6.2 (all Win9x) .
A lot of the time with ATI newer the better. Personally i use 4.3 due to its good game compatibility but I wonder if with the later drivers 3DNOW was removed or phased out since by the late 2000s 3DNow support was already dwindling.

Hi,
I have just checked the Catalyst 6.2 Win9x driver with Biew and both the DirectX and OpenGL drivers contain 3DNow! code:

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Reply 2 of 2, by SuperHanSolo

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Wow ! Thank you so much for checking it.

Win 98 Retro PC: AMD K6-2+ @ 550mhz, Mitac 5114VU motherboard, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000 PCI 64MB DDR
Win 95 Retro PC: Intel Pentium 233mmx, Elpina M571 motherboard, 32MB EDO RAM, Voodoo 3 2000 16MB PCI
Main PC: AMD Ryzen 7700x, 32GB DDR5-6000, Geforce 3080