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I have a 4MB. VRAM Edge 3-D, It does not appear to be worth the
$567.00 that I paid for it. I had been using a 2MB VRAM Stealth 64 Video,
and for the most part there is no differance. SVGA Frame Rates in ICR-2,
F1GP, and Nascar are all the same as with the Stealth at the same detail
levels. (Which is to say too slow for me thanks) I am running it on a
Pentium 90, with 24MB of EDO Ram, and using a Mag Innovision DX-17F
monitor, with ECCI controls. I was hoping to have one of the finest
*** systems around, but alas..... I cannot get satisfactory frame rates
at high detail levels. I have tried all combinations of drivers (None,
Univibe, etc...) and nothing helps. The card also has a built in 16bit
wavtable sound processor, which I disabled due to the fact that I already
own an AWE32 PNP w/Wave Blaster add-on. If I try to run the special Edge
Ported copy of NASCAR that came with the card, I get beautiful frame rates
and detail, however there is no sound, as that copy of Nascar appears to
only work through the Edge's built in sound card. (I can't believe that
Diamond does not realise that almost everybody who buys an Edge for $$$,
is probably already going to have a top of the line sound card.)
Overall - I would not have purchased it if I had realised that the
real-world performance gains would be un-noticable.
Sean Alexander
> I have a 4MB. VRAM Edge 3-D, It does not appear to be worth the
>$567.00 that I paid for it. I had been using a 2MB VRAM Stealth 64 Video,
>and for the most part there is no differance. SVGA Frame Rates in ICR-2,
>own an AWE32 PNP w/Wave Blaster add-on. If I try to run the special Edge
>Ported copy of NASCAR that came with the card, I get beautiful frame rates
>and detail, however there is no sound, as that copy of Nascar appears to
>only work through the Edge's built in sound card. (I can't believe that
>Diamond does not realise that almost everybody who buys an Edge for $$$,
>is probably already going to have a top of the line sound card.)
Gregory Fung
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
-Jamie
>>> I have a 4MB. VRAM Edge 3-D, It does not appear to be worth the
>>>$567.00 that I paid for it. I had been using a 2MB VRAM Stealth 64
Video,
>>>and for the most part there is no differance. SVGA Frame Rates in
ICR-2,
>>>F1GP, and Nascar are all the same as with the Stealth at the same
detail
>>>levels. (Which is to say too slow for me thanks) I am running it on
a
>>>Pentium 90, with 24MB of EDO Ram, and using a Mag Innovision DX-17F
>>>(deleted stuff)
>>Sean, I know what you're talking about. I've been leery of these
competing
>>3-D add-on boards, especially the 3-D blaster, since it doesn't even
have
>>onboard VGA! I got myself the Matrox MGA Millenium, which has turned
out to
>>be a good purchase so far. It also came with a special edition of
NASCAR
>>and I can have all the graphic options turned on and still have an
excellent
>>frame rate on my P-100. The rest of my games run about the same as
they did
>>with my Diamond Stealth VRAM. The reason is simply that software
must be
>>written specificially to take advantage of the 3-D hardware
acceleration in
>>our cards. I am kind of *** by buying now, but I'm betting that
Matrox
>>is established enough that the game makers will need to support it.
Until
>>the game manufacturers write to support our 3-D cards, we won't see
much if
>>any advantage over the old-style accelerators.
>> -Jamie
>Well, if SEGA really gets going (Sega Rally? Daytona?) this newsgroups
readers
>noses will probably point in the direction of "oooooh"'s, "aaah"'s and
>"wow"'s...
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>>Sean, I know what you're talking about. I've been leery of these
competing
>>3-D add-on boards, especially the 3-D blaster, since it doesn't even
have
>>onboard VGA! I got myself the Matrox MGA Millenium, which has turned
out to
>>be a good purchase so far. It also came with a special edition of
NASCAR
>>and I can have all the graphic options turned on and still have an
excellent
>>frame rate on my P-100. The rest of my games run about the same as they
did
>>with my Diamond Stealth VRAM. The reason is simply that software must
be
>>written specificially to take advantage of the 3-D hardware acceleration
in
>>our cards. I am kind of *** by buying now, but I'm betting that
Matrox
>>is established enough that the game makers will need to support it.
Until
>>the game manufacturers write to support our 3-D cards, we won't see much
if
>>any advantage over the old-style accelerators.
>> -Jamie
>Well, if SEGA really gets going (Sega Rally? Daytona?) this newsgroups
>readers
>noses will probably point in the direction of "oooooh"'s, "aaah"'s and
>"wow"'s...
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