New S3 Vcards

Cowboy X

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• Sep 19, 2003

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At last there is some more info on the S3 chrome series of videocards :

http://www.techreport.com/etc/2003q3/deltachrome/index.x?pg=1

 

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• Sep 19, 2003

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Thanks! That was a good read. It will be interesting to see how they perform.

 

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More info :

http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/deltachrome/default.asp

 

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Need actual performance data to judge the card.

 

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• Sep 22, 2003

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Hopefully these cards wont end up flopping like the Savage4 and Savage2000 cards. I remember I bought the Savage4 card and being so dissapointed

 

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I have a S3 Savage 4 in one of my old computers, but I bought it about 4 years ago when I didn't know much about video cards. Is it a DX7 card? How does it compare to other cards which came out at the same time?

 

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No the Savage 4 is a DX6 card .And it did'nt compare favouraably to the cards of its time . It's claim to fame however was S3TC also known as S3 compressed textures which has since been integrated into DirectX as a feature . Otherwise it was too lackluster .

 

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Does anyone know if there are drivers that enable the Savage 2000 cards to use Hardware T&L? This feature wasn't available when they first came out but the card was supposed to be capable of it.

 

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No those are as far as I know still phantom drivers , S3 never enabled their T&L .

 

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• Sep 23, 2003

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Ouch. I was actually going to pick one of these up for cheap just to play around with it and see what it can do on an old box, but I guess I won't even bother.

 

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Well you could look around and see if any third party drivers were ever released . I'd actually be surprised if there are any official XP drivers .

 

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• Sep 24, 2003

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I took a quick look around and found quite a few XP drivers (unofficial of course), but didn't find anything with a detailed file with a list of driver features, so I guess you'd need the card to test the drivers with and find out that way. If S3 themselves never enabled T&L I'm not sure if a third party would end up getting to it either though.

 

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The best place to ask about the T&L would be www.Beyond3d.com

 

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Okay thanks for the tip.