Re: ATI all in wonder pro?

It's a good card for video capture on the cheap but not much use for 3D. you need a Voodoo2 or higher , to be honest a v3 2000 will be as cheap as a v2 so I'd try for one of those if you can. You can't really run GPL at all with less than v2. Richard S Beckett <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:91aprb$[email hidden]... > x-no-archive: yes > > I'm a bit out of touch, as you can tell by my 200 Mhz K6 and voodoo1cards.

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> (I will upgrade soon, honest!). > > I've just laid my hands on an ATI All In Wonder Pro graphics card, and I > have a few questions, if you don't mind... > > Is it worth putting into my machine, or will it frighten the poor old > bugger? > > Is it any good for the range of games that I play - GPL, GP3, VR, CMR1, > etc...oh, and Tomb Raider (well, we all need a bit of light relief now and > again ;-) ? > > I don't know if it's 3dfx, or what it is, so any help would be

appreciated. > > Thanks. > > R. > >

Hi wouldn't the ATI all in wonder pro be O.K. in gpl with the d3d patch. I know its not the first choice for gamers but it didn't do too bad in a test against v3 and others of the age. My friend runs one albeit on a 700 athlon and it seems quite acceptable Cheers Martin. "John" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:0I9_5.43192$[email hidden]... > It's a good card for video capture on the cheap but not much use for 3D.you > need a Voodoo2 or higher , to be honest a v3 2000 will be as cheap as a v2 > so I'd try for one of those if you can. You can't really run GPL at allwith

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> less than v2. > > > Richard S Beckett <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:91aprb$[email hidden]... > > x-no-archive: yes > > > > I'm a bit out of touch, as you can tell by my 200 Mhz K6 and voodoo1 > cards. > > (I will upgrade soon, honest!). > > > > I've just laid my hands on an ATI All In Wonder Pro graphics card, and I > > have a few questions, if you don't mind... > > > > Is it worth putting into my machine, or will it frighten the poor old > > bugger? > > > > Is it any good for the range of games that I play - GPL, GP3, VR, CMR1, > > etc...oh, and Tomb Raider (well, we all need a bit of light relief now

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> > again ;-) ? > > > > I don't know if it's 3dfx, or what it is, so any help would be > appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > > > R. > > > > > > >

You can use the All-In-Wonder Pro alongside a 3D-only Voodoo card. We had a Voodoo2 running with our All-In-Wonder Pro on our secondary machine, and it worked just fine. I'm not sure if you can get 3D-only Voodoo3s or not, however... DennyK Martin Chapman wrote:

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> > Hi > wouldn't the ATI all in wonder pro be O.K. in gpl with the d3d patch. > I know its not the first choice for gamers but it didn't do too bad in a > test against v3 and others of the age. My friend runs one albeit on a 700 > athlon and it seems quite acceptable > > Cheers Martin. > "John" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:0I9_5.43192$[email hidden]... > > It's a good card for video capture on the cheap but not much use for 3D. > you > > need a Voodoo2 or higher , to be honest a v3 2000 will be as cheap as a v2 > > so I'd try for one of those if you can. You can't really run GPL at all > with > > less than v2. > > > > > > Richard S Beckett <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:91aprb$[email hidden]... > > > x-no-archive: yes > > > > > > I'm a bit out of touch, as you can tell by my 200 Mhz K6 and voodoo1 > > cards. > > > (I will upgrade soon, honest!). > > > > > > I've just laid my hands on an ATI All In Wonder Pro graphics card, and I > > > have a few questions, if you don't mind... > > > > > > Is it worth putting into my machine, or will it frighten the poor old > > > bugger? > > > > > > Is it any good for the range of games that I play - GPL, GP3, VR, CMR1, > > > etc...oh, and Tomb Raider (well, we all need a bit of light relief now > and > > > again ;-) ? > > > > > > I don't know if it's 3dfx, or what it is, so any help would be > > appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > R. > > > > > > > > > > > >

I've had an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro (8 megs) for a number of years now. It's great for watching TV up in the corner of the screen while surfing the Net, but I wouldn't recommend it for 3D Gaming. I never really tried GPL on it. I use 2 Voodoo2's for that. In fact, the reason that I've never dumped the V2's is that I really like the AIW Pro for non-gaming applications. Hooking the V2's to it gives me the best of both worlds. However, I did run GP3 on AIW Pro at first (before I could get it working with the Voodoo2's), and it ran. Frame rate for hotlapping was OK, but this is on Celeron 566@850, not a 200Mhz K6. Can't recall whether I ran a race with full field or not. I don't think I bothered, since I didn't expect it to run too well. Bottom line is No, I don't think that you'll be satisfied with the AIW Pro's 3D performance for the racing titles you mention, at least not on you present system. Adding a V2 (or 2) will help, but I think the main bottleneck is your CPU. Richard S Beckett wrote:

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> x-no-archive: yes > > I'm a bit out of touch, as you can tell by my 200 Mhz K6 and voodoo1 cards. > (I will upgrade soon, honest!). > > I've just laid my hands on an ATI All In Wonder Pro graphics card, and I > have a few questions, if you don't mind... > > Is it worth putting into my machine, or will it frighten the poor old > bugger? > > Is it any good for the range of games that I play - GPL, GP3, VR, CMR1, > etc...oh, and Tomb Raider (well, we all need a bit of light relief now and > again ;-) ? > > I don't know if it's 3dfx, or what it is, so any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks. > > R.

-- Bert

Never been able to get a computer with an ATI adapter in it to work with D3D in GPL, ever. SLG "Richard S Beckett" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>x-no-archive: yes > >I'm a bit out of touch, as you can tell by my 200 Mhz K6 and voodoo1 cards. >(I will upgrade soon, honest!). > >I've just laid my hands on an ATI All In Wonder Pro graphics card, and I >have a few questions, if you don't mind... > >Is it worth putting into my machine, or will it frighten the poor old >bugger? > >Is it any good for the range of games that I play - GPL, GP3, VR, CMR1, >etc...oh, and Tomb Raider (well, we all need a bit of light relief now and >again ;-) ? > >I don't know if it's 3dfx, or what it is, so any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks. > >R. > >

(All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are due to too many English classes/teachers)

what about the All-In-Wonder Radeon Card, that'll be good for 3D games as well. <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> You can use the All-In-Wonder Pro alongside a 3D-only Voodoo card. We > had a Voodoo2 running with our All-In-Wonder Pro on our secondary > machine, and it worked just fine. I'm not sure if you can get 3D-only > Voodoo3s or not, however... > > DennyK > > > Martin Chapman wrote: > > > > Hi > > wouldn't the ATI all in wonder pro be O.K. in gpl with the d3d patch. > > I know its not the first choice for gamers but it didn't do too bad in a > > test against v3 and others of the age. My friend runs one albeit on a

700 > > athlon and it seems quite acceptable > > > > Cheers Martin. > > "John" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:0I9_5.43192$[email hidden]... > > > It's a good card for video capture on the cheap but not much use for3D. > > you > > > need a Voodoo2 or higher , to be honest a v3 2000 will be as cheap asa v2 > > > so I'd try for one of those if you can. You can't really run GPL atall

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> > with > > > less than v2. > > > > > > > > > Richard S Beckett <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > news:91aprb$[email hidden]... > > > > x-no-archive: yes > > > > > > > > I'm a bit out of touch, as you can tell by my 200 Mhz K6 and voodoo1 > > > cards. > > > > (I will upgrade soon, honest!). > > > > > > > > I've just laid my hands on an ATI All In Wonder Pro graphics card,

and I > > > > have a few questions, if you don't mind... > > > > > > > > Is it worth putting into my machine, or will it frighten the poorold > > > > bugger? > > > > > > > > Is it any good for the range of games that I play - GPL, GP3, VR,CMR1, > > > > etc...oh, and Tomb Raider (well, we all need a bit of light reliefnow

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> > and > > > > again ;-) ? > > > > > > > > I don't know if it's 3dfx, or what it is, so any help would be > > > appreciated. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > R. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >