Here an aczualized news about graphic cards. The new revisions of Gigabyte-Mainboards that are allready available (Please ask your PC-Seller) can be used with a Voodoo3 card. Older revisions of Mainboards with BX, LX, GX and - not confirmed at all - ALi chipset canīt handle the amount of power a Voodoo3 needs to work. We now know that there are also problems with the ELSA ERAZOR III and Guillemot MAXI GAMER XENTOR in older revisions of the named Mainboards. Like Voodoo3, these cards do also need too much power. Guillemot released a patch to fix that problem - please ask Guillemot for additional information.

I think there is also a problem with other TNT2 cards. I got numerous e-mails from users that have problems to get a Gigabyte/TNT2 combination to work. So if you buy a Graphic card/Maiboard combination ask your PC-Dealer if it works together (and if you can give it back if it doesīnt)!

2.51 - 08/14/99

• Validated G400 support. relaxed timings
• Revised 3dfx, Intel, Matrox, S3, NVidia, Rendition VClk
• Beefed up Blade3D support
• Fixed up Voodoo Graphics gamma
• Added Oxygen support
• Added sync-on-green for Matrox & 3Dlabs
• Added prelimary i810, SiS620 and VIA MVP4 support
• Restored SiS6326 VCLK and MCLK support
• Switched MGA D3D switches to support PD5
• Added Desktop support for DX modes

Download: Powerstrip v2.51

What's the deal with T&L that's done onboard and how they are used by API's. IE: for a game to use of onboard T&L extensions in OpenGL does it need to specifically be written to make use of those OpenGL extensions? Or does OpenGL figure that out already and the 3d card manufacturer just has to include it in their OpenGL driver?

If you could fill us all in with a little more on onboard T&L info that would kick ass.

Read the answer here.

The line flipping technology uses the even and odd lines of your screen to differ the images. The one eye only sees the odd lines, the other only the even lines. Disadvantage: black horizontal line in the image, an interlace effect. Advantage: quite fast.

The page flipping technology uses the back- and front-buffer of the graphics card (memory areas) to switch between two whole images. Disadvantage: Slow, more ghosting effects. Advantage: Very good quality.

The shutter glasses always take care that your eyes always see the 'correct' image

You can get the new driver here: ASUS V2.09 Beta1

Release Notes:

1. Supported VR resolutions

Line interleave modes :
640x480x16 , 800x600x16 , 960x720x16 , 1024x768x16 , 1152x864x16
640x480x32 , 800x600x32 , 960x720x32

Page Flipping modes :
640x480x16 , 800x600x16 , 960x720x16 , 1024x768x16
640x480x32 , 800x600x32

2. Switching resolution or game perspective during VR gameplay may cause system
freeze.

High Quality and Normal are GFX-settings in Quake3

You can download the 2MB package (AGP+PCI) here.

PowerUser sends a mail that there are v2.25 Detonator drivers available: Detonator v2.25. But these drivers seem to be older than v2.17, although they have a higher number! The hebrew bug for example is not fixed in v2.25!! The date of the files is also older!

Caution: This is not an official NVIDIA release!!!!! Use this driver on your own risk!!!!!!

Chat: I started a IRC Channel called #rivastation (IRC-Net). There you can chat with other RIVA Station visitors by using a IRC Sofware like mIRC. Iīm also testing a JAVA IRC client to get the chat to my webpage. This client can be found here: RIVA Station Chat
Please give me feedback what you think about that java software. The shareware reminder is only for testing. A registered version doesīnt show it anymore. Other users in IRC canīt see the messages!

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