Update: it seems this doesīnt work at all - so just forget it!

ASUS developed its own DVD player software (like ELSA did): ASUS will sell the player software from mid june for a price of DM 34,80. It is available as an add-on for the ASUS graphic cards V3400 and V3800.

Download the 60MB file at 3DFiles.

Riva has allowed their vendors to independently clock their TNT2 processors. What core/memory speed is this card running at?

We will ship the board with a 150/183 configuration. I’d like to give a little background on that so you understand why. Basically, when you used to overclock cards on the PCI bus, all you had to worry about was dissipating heat from the card, because there was plenty of power on the card. If you look at overclocking a CPU, one of the things you have to do to really push the CPU is increase the voltage on the Slot 0. The reason for that is, if you want it to go faster, you’re going to have to give it more current. It’s just basic physics. The AGP port has a much smaller power pool, basically. It’s 3.3 volts, and it’s a much lower total overall current than the PCI bus. We did a good deal of research finding out where to clock, because everyone wants to have the highest clock out of the box. What we found was, everybody was shooting for the 175/200 kind of thing – they thought that one was going to be the right one to go to, and that’s the one we were looking at. We found a disturbing number of failures in our testing – not on the card side, but on the motherboard side, in terms of not having enough power to get to 175. We went through this over and over trying to find the right frequency mix. What we figured out was, it was so system dependent – how good is your motherboard? How good is your power supply? How good is the AGP implementation? How much contact you are getting in fingers of the slot – there are just so many things that impact it, that we decided to ship it at 150/183, provide [the customer] with an overclocking utility for both core and memory, and let them tune it for the performance that they can have in their system.

REad the whole stuff here.

3dfx Interactive earlier this week filed separate patent-infringement lawsuits against nVidia Corp. and Real 3D Inc. The suits both concern what 3dfx claims is infringement over its patent #5,831,624, entitled "Level of Detail Texture Filtering with Dithering and Mipmaps." The patent was filed on April 30, 1996, and granted on November 3, 1998. According to Bruce Busby, 3dfx’s director of intellectual property, the patent enables the dithering between two levels of detail, and gives "the look of trilinear filtering without doing a multitexturing pass."

While not able to comment directly on the litigation and 3dfx’s chance of success, Busby indicated that a company legally can’t file such a case without a solid basis for filing, which Busby noted is covered by "Rule 11." Busby continued by stating that there are no planned court dates for the cases at present, but there’s a likelihood that these suits will be joined to the existing suits 3dfx is involved in with Real 3D and nVidia; this suit is filed as a countersuit to Real 3D’s previously filed case.

Michael Howse, 3dfx’s senior vice president of marketing, added that the company has a "duty to fight for intellectual properties." With the number of companies involved in one-upping each other for improving computer graphics, it’s not likely that this will be the last such suit filed over proprietary technology.

"Our research indicates NVIDIA’s 128-bit architecture dominates the performance category with 44 percent market share," said Dr. Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Associates (Tiburon, CA) the leading market research firm tracking digital media. "Our data indicates that NVIDIA has one of the highest average growth rates at 65%, and has shipped more 128-bit 3D processors than the rest of the industry combined."

"NVIDIA’s first-class architectural and silicon engineering expertise has delivered the industry’s most decorated families of performance-leading graphics processors to the PC market for 4 consecutive seasons," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO at NVIDIA. "By executing on-time and capturing more market share quarter-to-quarter, NVIDIA is now one of the fastest growing semiconductor company in history."

Whatīs new with TNT2? What about features and performance. I finished the translation of the article where I try to answer these questions and show you  a couple of benchmarks results: What can TNT2 do for ya?

Download (593KB)

Owners of a ELSA ELSA 3D Revelator can do 3D screenshots in every 3D game. The software saves the image for the left and right eye beside each other in a bitmap file. You can watch these images with the ELSA 3D Viewer in 3D later. But you can also create your own 3D images. I used a raytracer and moved the camera to simulate the distance between the human eyes. So you can see my mascot pose out of your monitor...but be carefull: it bites! :-)
Simply unpack and copy the file in the folder of the ELSA 3D Viewer (c:\windows\elsautil\....)

More shots here.

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