rec.autos.simulators

by **Lee Gle** » Sun, 21 Jul 1996 04:00:00

>Subject: Re: Is Diamond Stealth 64 good for sims?
>Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 15:07:52 GMT

>>Is it fast enough in dos, is it any good in Windows?
>>Somebody please help me, thanks in advance.
>>--
>Yes it certainly is a fast card. I have one that allows Grand Prix 2 run
>smoothly is SVGA. It's very fast in Windows as well. There may be better
>cards out there now though. The Stealth 64 card is well over a year old
>now. I definetly recommend it though.

Remember that are more than 1 Diamond cards labelled Steath 64. They are
based on different chipsets (ARK2000, S3 Trio764, S3 Vision864, S3 Vision968,
etc). You need to know the specific the model (2121,2201,3200,DRAM,etc). All
of the above models I listed where being produced at the same time. By now
I'm sure there are more models out there. Check the group
comp.sys.ibm.hardware.video for more info and personal experience. I've heard
they are very poor at supporting thier cards and are later than other
manufactures with driver updates. Just what I hear. I personally have and
like the Hercules Stingray64/Video (cheap too).

by **tatu puupponen,joens** » Mon, 22 Jul 1996 04:00:00

Is it fast enough in dos, is it any good in Windows?
Somebody please help me, thanks in advance.
--

by **color..** » Mon, 22 Jul 1996 04:00:00

Yes it certainly is a fast card. I have one that allows Grand Prix 2 run
smoothly is SVGA. It's very fast in Windows as well. There may be better
cards out there now though. The Stealth 64 card is well over a year old
now. I definetly recommend it though.

by **Jeffrey Hunsberge** » Tue, 23 Jul 1996 04:00:00

Actually, I got my Diamond Stealth 64 2mbDRAM to work in DOS and
Windows95. I got the new drivers for Windows95 and I love them. They work
very well, indeed. I haven't had a problem with them and they are VERY
VERY fast. You can also have virtual desktop space, the start button
anywhere you click etc. All sorts of excellent features with the InControl
stuff.

The DOS stuff took a while to figure out. This might save you some grief,
especially with ICR2 or any game that uses UNIVBE5.1. It would not allow
me to use UNIVBE until I ran uvconfig with the -L32 option which loaded
the linear framebuffering in a different spot in memory. After I did that
( I have a DX120 ) I can now run ICR2 in full SVGA with only the asphalt
texture toggling once in a while with 31 other opponents. Unparalleled!
It is gorgeous. It doesn't even drop frames of detail when I spin.

After I figured this out, I became VERY happy with the performance of the
card.

Good luck,
email with any questions.

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> >Is it fast enough in dos, is it any good in Windows?
> >Somebody please help me, thanks in advance.
> >--
> from what ive heard its ok in DOS but the win95 drivers R crappy...
> win311 works fine.

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by **Nick Totor** » Tue, 23 Jul 1996 04:00:00

> >Is it fast enough in dos, is it any good in Windows?
> >Somebody please help me, thanks in advance.
> >--
> from what ive heard its ok in DOS but the win95 drivers R crappy...
> win311 works fine.

As with any other piece of hardware, you should always update to
the latest drivers. The Win95 driver on the Win95 CD-ROM is quite a
piece of rubbish, however the current Win95 drivers and the InControl
Tools available on Diamond's web site are quite good and boost graphic
capabilities quite a bit. Using Wintune, I noticed a 25% increase
inperformance from the drivers alone. I can't remember exactly what the
stats were, but it any of you all wants to know just email me and I'll
gladly mail you a comparison of what I had before and after the latest
drivers.
Also, I received an email from Diamond's Tech Support telling me
that the latest Win95 driver, which became available a little over a
week ago, is DirectX compatible.
Nick
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by **Andy** » Tue, 23 Jul 1996 04:00:00

>Is it fast enough in dos, is it any good in Windows?
>Somebody please help me, thanks in advance.
>--

I'm interested on input on this too.... namely for NASCAR II
I just upgraded to a p100 and got it with a cheap-o card till I
find out what Papyrus/Sierra intends on supporting, plus my
local PC guru tells me that there isn't really a "standard" 3D
format yet....

Andy A

http://www.***comm.net/~tomcat

by **Ville Ko** » Tue, 23 Jul 1996 04:00:00

>Is it fast enough in dos, is it any good in Windows?
>Somebody please help me, thanks in advance.
>--

from what ive heard its ok in DOS but the win95 drivers R crappy...
win311 works fine.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ville Kopu~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

ViK at IRC, #f1 & #gp2 http://koti.kolumbus.fi/~vkopu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Second is first of loserS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~