Diamond Stealth II S220......Opinions???

I think I may have found a winner....I found this card reviewed in many magazines, the Diamond Stealth II S220, now will this acclerate CPR, and if so how well, and how is its performence in general, any feedback would be greatly apprieciated!!!! Thanks!! Nate Henderson

Nate, My recent upgrade included this card. Overall, I am pleased. I can run the Rendition versions of N2 and ICR2. The only problem is Diamond's drivers for D3D. While the colors and smoothing are vivid and my framerate around 30 fps in CPR's "Hardware Accelerated" mode, a portion of the screen is "unrendered". All that is drawn is sky. It affects the draw-ahead significantly, making the mode undrivable. I have read that Diamond's next driver set will be released later this month and should correct the problem. For the goods on this card, check out www.bjorn3d.com. Jim

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> I think I may have found a winner....I found this card reviewed in many > magazines, the Diamond Stealth II S220, now will this acclerate CPR, and > if so how well, and how is its performence in general, any feedback > would be greatly apprieciated!!!! > Thanks!! > Nate Henderson

I own a Stealth 2 and CART PR. First, the drivers for the Stealth 2 do not work properly with CPR right now, Rendition is supposed to be working on a driver fix. But my overall impressions of the Stealth 2 are high. I have owned the 3DFX based cards (Rush and Graphics) and I must admit that for the money, you can not beat the Stealth 2. But I have had some problems with setup under Win95 but I received help from Diamond via long distance phone call to solve all my problems. I highly recommend this card for its 2D/3D capabilities and later you will be able to add the Voodoo2 with no problems alongside the Stealth 2. Buy the Stealth 2! --GTIracer

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> I think I may have found a winner....I found this card reviewed in many > magazines, the Diamond Stealth II S220, now will this acclerate CPR, and > if so how well, and how is its performence in general, any feedback > would be greatly apprieciated!!!! > Thanks!! > Nate Henderson

Is the Stealth II a 3Dfx card or only a D3D. > I own a Stealth 2 and CART PR. First, the drivers for the Stealth 2 do not > work properly with CPR right now, Rendition is supposed to be working on a > driver fix. But my overall impressions of the Stealth 2 are high. I have > owned the 3DFX based cards (Rush and Graphics) and I must admit that for the > money, you can not beat the Stealth 2. But I have had some problems with > setup under Win95 but I received help from Diamond via long distance phone > call to solve all my problems. I highly recommend this card for its 2D/3D > capabilities and later you will be able to add the Voodoo2 with no problems

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> alongside the Stealth 2. Buy the Stealth 2! > --GTIracer > > I think I may have found a winner....I found this card reviewed in many > > magazines, the Diamond Stealth II S220, now will this acclerate CPR,

and > > if so how well, and how is its performence in general, any feedback > > would be greatly apprieciated!!!! > > Thanks!! > > Nate Henderson

> Is the Stealth II a 3Dfx card or only a D3D. It is a 2nd generation Rendition Card. It is not Glide compatible. BUT...it does do D3d and it does do Opengl(read QUAKE!) and it has it's own versions of Quake etc in the RRedline drivers.(VQuake)...So NO it is not a 3dfx card, but it does do 2d/3d and does most of the games 3dfx does AND it is happy being matched with a Voodoo as well. dave henrie

I found that Toca touring cars game looks better on my bosses Stealth II card than on my Monster 3dfx card. Is that something that other people have noticed ? (Rendition Cart racing also looks great on his Stealth II ;) But I can say that Need for Speed 2 SE looks better on mine. Andrew Morrissey.