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Diamond Edge 3D video card and Nascar: (Need info)

John Vozna

Diamond Edge 3D video card and Nascar: (Need info)

by John Vozna » Wed, 20 Mar 1996 04:00:00


>Does anyone reading this have the new Diamond Edge 3D card, especially
>the #3240XL with 2meg Vram? I am very interested on your opinion of it
>and actual graphics and speed increases with graphic intense
>operations both within dos and windows95. I understand that Papyrus
>teamed up with Diamond and packaged (or were to) an "upbeat" version
>of Nascar Racing containing improved graphics, sound, ect... and great
>framerate reproduction. Is this true and where is the best places if
>so, (mailorder catalogs, retail, ect...) to get this package? My
>system is 100mhz pentium with PCI s3-trio64 card and 1meg dram
>currently and I seem limited with turning on graphics/slow framerates,
>ect... Does the Diamond Edge 3d #3240XL also include a soundcard? I
>may have been mislead by an article I was reading about this but it
>seemed that sound reproduction was also to be improved greatly with
>this card. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated and

>Thank you

I have the Diamond Edge 3D (3240XL).  Can't tell you much, other than
the driver 1.0 does not support Windows 95 DirectX and DirectDraw,
etc...   New drivers are on the way.  It runs the ICR2 demo in DOS
pretty good (full graphics, though I have a P-120).  Diamond says,
however, that this card is only for Windows 95.  I have had a problem
getting a few of my DOS games working.  The Edge 3D does have a built
in sound card (sound is really good in Windows 95) but it does not
support DOS (you will need another sound card for DOS).  I have no idea
where you can get the ehanced NASCAR Racing CD for the Edge 3D.  My
computer vendor installed the card only, (it saved me a few bucks not
to get the CDs, etc.).  Let us know if you find out anything.

John

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