#Vibrant & Viper?????????
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John
<It is a 64bit architecture accelerator that blows away any TIGA ever made, and
is probably cheaper.>
Hadn't heard of that architecture. anybody else using it?
<I own an MGA and think it's the best!!!!!!!!!! (I love it <g>).>
… Well theres a ringing endorsement if there ever was one… it looks like I
gotta unload my viper somwhere and get an MGA.
One point of warning on the MGA series: Vibrant will not have 3DS driver
support for at least one more month. It is their highest priority, though, to
get it done right.
John Tissavary (La Luna cie)
John,
Does that mean it won't work at all? or just not at its full potential. How
bout windows and NT? does it have and generic or Vesa vga capbilities ?
Regards ,Peter Kroko
The MGA and MGA II both suppport VESA, but the MGA Impression (high-end) series
have horrible VGA chipsets – veeery slow and tough to use in 3DS. The MGA II
apparently has a faster VGA chipset, so that shouldn't be a problem. The MGA
high-end cards have 3D hardware for 3d dynaview in AutoCad, and the MGA II
don't.
In windows there is no faster card in production that I know of at the moment,
and the MGA Impression won the BYTE graphics accelerators review for CAD cards.
It came in second in DTP next to the less expensive SuperMac, although the
Matrox was faster. The MGA II is supposedly faster in windows than the MGA.
John Tissavary (La Luna cie)
Peter:
No. The Viper will work with 3DS R3 right now but you should use the VIBCFG
command line option to change the driver assigned for the materials-display
and the render-display.
Here's what I've got working now:
Main-Display: Diamond Viper P9000 640x480x16
Materials-Display: VESA Compatibles 640x480x256
Render-Display: VESA Compatibles 640x480x256
And you need to load the VESA driver (VPRMODE VESA) before loading 3DS.
There are lots of other combinations that undoubtedly work as well. The main
thing is that the Viper won't run 3DS in native Diamond Viper P9000 mode at
any resolution higher than 320×200 if you've got a color depth higher than
16 colors. That is supposed to be corrected by Vibrant with the new driver.
David
Hey David,
Hows it goin…
<<Here's what I've got working now:
Main-Display: Diamond Viper P9000 640x480x16
Materials-Display: VESA Compatibles 640x480x256
Render-Display: VESA Compatibles 640x480x256>>
Yikes, pretty far from the 24x1024x768 I'm getting with my old TIGA (don't
laugh) Opta Mona Lisa. My images are mainly still and pretty detailed so I
like res and color … anyway…
Regards, Peter Kroko
P.S. Did you catch a peek of my stuff?
Peter:
Did I catch a peek of your stuff? You bet I did. The mice were great. I made
two sets of slides, sent one to Eugene and kept the second for myself. You
will probably hear from someone down there about using some images in the
magazine.
I generally run 3DS at that resolution and then save targa files at higher
res. No point of looking at everything that high all the time though and I
don't do a whole lot of 3DS work anyway. I'm still pretty raw at it. <G>
One of these days, when I get some free time (yeah, in what life), I need to
really learn how to use it.
David
david,
I generally run 3DS at that resolution and then save targa files at higher
res. No point of looking at everything that high all the time though>>
Ya I guess it depends alot on how you work and what it is your working on. I
wind up doing alot of stills at 3000×2000 or so.
Peter,
>> my old TIGA (don't laugh) Opta Mona Lisa.<<
Hea … that card was great … when it worked. We carried them for a little
bit … and we had about a 30% unsuccessful rate with them. The ones that
worked though were great (for their time).
Ang
Angelo,
<<we had about a 30% unsuccessful rate with them.>> So thats why they went
under? All the mags had rave reveiws and I thought it worked great so I could
never understand why they went away.
<<that card was great … when it worked.>> Mines qwerky as all get up but I
quite like it …just never liked being stuck with products from defunkt
companies.
The nice thing is that it works with most standard TIGA II drivers and most
programs got'em…. Which I think is a lot more than can be said for the
emerging crop of cards despite there high performance.
Regards, Peter Kroko
John,
Does that mean it won't work at all? or just not at its full potential. How
bout windows and NT? does it have and generic or Vesa vga capbilities ?
Regards ,Peter Kroko