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S3 Savage 2000: Diamond vs S3 drivers?

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First post, by 386SX

Posted on 2016-07-31, 16:29

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Hi,
I was testing this card with a Duron 1200 / KT133A / 512MB and I went for the I think latest official S3 drivers dated 04/2002. I remember using the Diamond one with more control panels and all, but on the real usage and beside the possibility to enable the T&L, are better one or the other?
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Reply 1 of 1, by swaaye

Posted on 2016-07-31, 18:45

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I think you should test all of them and let us know. 😁 My impression was support for the card/chip was abandoned quickly by all parties and the various driver revisions offer minimal improvements/changes. I posted a collection of Savage 2000 drivers and software on VOGONS Drivers btw.

If you enable the T&L, and a program uses it, it produces broken output regardless of driver. I think it also reduces rendering performance. There's just something wrong with the hardware.

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