drive for S3 chip for GP2...

> I found a driver that increase the frame rate by passing some rendering > to the video card with a S3 chip on it. Did someone use it ? Hi there Yes, I tried the driver, but I don't think that it made any difference. Do you? -- Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen John Nielsen - Denmark http://home1.inet.tele.dk/jnielsen/ Welcome to MAD MAN's CAVE

I found a driver that increase the frame rate by passing some rendering to the video card with a S3 chip on it. Did someone use it ?

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> > to the video card with a S3 chip on it. Did someone use it ? > = > Hi there > = > Yes, I tried the driver, but I don't think that it made any difference.= > Do you? > = > -- > Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen > John Nielsen - Denmark > http://home1.inet.tele.dk/jnielsen/ > Welcome to MAD MAN's CAVE

I don't try it because in the doc. they say that we must have a S3 chip on a VESA video card and my video card is a PCI...

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> > > I found a driver that increase the frame rate by passing some rendering > > > to the video card with a S3 chip on it. Did someone use it ? > > Hi there > > Yes, I tried the driver, but I don't think that it made any difference. > > Do you? > I don't try it because in the doc. they say that we must have a S3 chip > on a VESA video card and my video card is a PCI...

s3spdup will work on *any* s3 based chip, including the s3dvirge. This includes PCI video cards. I use s3spdup with GP2 and it has improved my frame rates greatly. My vid speed (gp2log.txt) with an s3d(2mb EDO) and s3spdup almost doubled to 467. SVGA with everything but sky, verges and hills runs very nicely. On other games, it works well also - I have had improvements on EF2000, ICR2 and I've heard it will MORE than double the performance of SCREAMER2 (which I bought today :) You may find some games will not run correctly, esp. those which use propriety intro video formats (NFS and Dest. Derby come to mind). These games still run, but the video screen is distorted. To find s3spdup, do a search for the word on altavista. Jet

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>> > I found a driver that increase the frame rate by passing some rendering >> > to the video card with a S3 chip on it. Did someone use it ? >> Hi there >> Yes, I tried the driver, but I don't think that it made any difference. >> Do you? >I don't try it because in the doc. they say that we must have a S3 chip >on a VESA video card and my video card is a PCI...

I don't know what driver you're talking about, but I'm pretty sure VESA here means "VESA BIOS extensions", *not* "VESA local bus". The two things have nothing to do with each other, save that both standards were introduced by the VESA consortium. If the driver is s3spdup, I use it with my S3 PCI card with no problem. -- Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome. \ (Not necessary if you're posting from Europe.) Junk \ do you care, spammer? If you find opinions express- Uni des Saarlands \ ed in the above posting, they're probably mine.

Hi! have you ever compared the s3spdup with SciTech's Univbe5.1? Are there any differences with their performances? Could you also please tell me your setup for s3spdup? How do you load it? What parametres you use in your command line? Thanks, Keke