Diamond 24 X
6 messages in this thread
I just installed a 24X and everthing is fine for rendering an animation
except when I try to animate a 640X480. The .flc come out in about a 4×5
array with a portion of the animation running in each cell. I have disabled
everthing ecept what is absolutely necessary set up 3ds for straight vga
and still the same results. Any ideas?
Mark P.
Mark,
I remember seeing that too when I used one. I don't have any good advice
unfortunately, except to say that the .flc is OK it's just something going
on with the card. I think when it happened to me, I saved a project, quit,
reloaded 3ds, loaded the project and tried again. Everything was OK for a
while and then it happened again. You might consider contact Diamond to see
if they have a driver upgrade or else consider buying a full set of drivers
from one of the following companies:
Panacea: (800)729-7420 or (603)437-5022
Vibrant: (800)937-1711 or (512)250-1711
These folks actually seem to write the ADI drivers that are included with
most cards anyway. Good luck.
Martin
Martin,
I tried Vibrant's and had the same problem. Panacea's isn't available
yet. This also happens with no ADI drivers loaded. I talked with Diamond's
tech support and that was like talking to the wall. This will be my last
SpeedStar and I will no longer recomend any Diamond products to my clients.
Jake Bayt at Vibrant was very helpful and is checking into the problem.
Thanks for the reply.
Mark P.
Intersting thread, as I was about to recommend a SpeedStar to the company I
contract with. What are you using (or considering) as an alternative if
this one is to be your last? I am fairly unfamiliar with high end display
boards and frmae buffers and am trying to gather as much info as I can.
Thanks,
Chris Barnes
Martin,
Not that I'm an appologist for Diamond, but there is a very helpful Diamond
Rep. over in the GRAPHSUPPORT forum. He has been helping many programers in
that forum who are trying to add 24X support to their applications.
I'm afraid that I can't remember his name, but if you check out any of the
Diamond threads on that forum, he's bound to pop up. Could probably help with
your problem as well.
Steven
Are you running the VESA driver in 3DS or in the ADI P386 driver we supply?
I have not seen any problems to that extent in my use of our P386 driver
(by Panacea) and 3D Studio 2.0.
However, it does happen when using VESA. We are in contact with Mark Sage
of AutoDesk regarding this problem. At this time, there's no clear
decision if the problem resides in software or hardware. I just bounced
this problem off another person and he happened to be talking to Mark about
the very same thing <small world> 🙂
Have you seen any difference if you use the VESA.EXE file before loading
3DS?
-Jeff Orr
Product Marketing
Diamond Computer Systems, Inc.