S3's Diamond Monster Shades are designed for ease-of-use and maximum compatibility, so PC gamers can start enjoying them from the second they open the package. Whether the user likes to play old PC game favorites or the latest 3D masterpiece, Diamond Monster Shades provides support for hundreds of PC titles designed using the DirectX, OpenGL and Glide application programming interfaces (APIs). Diamond Monster Shades is also compatible with all leading 3D game engines, including S3's Savage4, Nvidia's TNT, TNT2 and TNT2 Ultra chips and 3Dfx's Voodoo II, Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo III. Support for S3's Savage(TM)2000 is planned.

Read the pressrelease here.

• The CL Annihilator (which uses SDR memory) is shipping to stores today. Remember, there are HUGE numbers of these on backorder, so the availibility will be limited at first
• Several sites have reported that European distributors are reporting that they have the CL Annihilator Pro (using DDR memory) available. According to Steve, that is NOT possible, as the DDR cards have not been shipped from the factory. The estimated release date of the Annihilator Pro is still "sometime before Christmas"

I got a mail yesterday where a user told me that he bought a Guillemot 3D Prophet in a store in germany....

> I have found that Canopus has a video card based on NVidia's new GeForce
>256 chip. Do you know when the card will be available for sale here in the
>US? Also maybe a ball-park price?

The card is only available in Japan. It will not be available in the
U.S.
Canopus Technical Support

ThanX to Chris for that info!

Currently, bilinear+MIP mapping and trilinear filtering are the only acceptable ways of filtering. Point sampling is too ugly; even software renderers are beginning to approximate bilinear filtering techniques. In a few years, we may see even more complicated filtering architectures making their way into the mainstream, such as anisotropic filtering, which takes into consideration the 3D properties of each polygon when choosing pixels (texels) for filtering. 

More about that here.

Will SoF take advantage of the GeForce's T&L engine?

"Pretty much all GL applications will take minimum advantage of the Transformation portion of the GeForce card. Next generation engines, like Q3A take more advantage of it, because they are designed for this hardware. Older engines aren't designed for it, so just some of the nartual GL transormations are done.

SoF does, however, have builtin hardware lighting, so we do take advantage of GeForce's Lighting hardware. Lighting actually looks a little better, as we can throw more lights towards the models, and still render in less time than the software calculations needed to compute the light values (for every other card)."

ThanX to Voodooextreme

The GLoria II-64 reveals its strengths together with demanding professional graphics applications with the help of 64-MB video memory and a RAMDAC clocked at 350 MHz. Thanks to the enormous performance boost from the new-generation chips, an optimized collection of ELSA drivers and a highly competitive price, the GLoria II-64 offers an optimal price-performance ratio for all users in the CAD and DCC markets.

Included with the graphics board are drivers for Windows NT and Windows 95/98, application drivers for "AutoCAD 2000" and "3D Studio" as well as the useful ELSA tools. The innovative DVD player ELSAmovie rounds off the package. Documentation is supplied in English, French and German.

ELSA plans the first shipments of the GLoria II-64 in December.

Pressrelease

With GeForce on the way,TNT2 cards get very interesting for many people bacause of falling prices. So RIVA Station reviewed three Ultra class TNT2 cards:Creative Graphics Blaster TNT2 Ultra,  Guillemot Maxi Gamer Xentor 32 and ELSA Erazor III Pro/Pro Video. The review currently is only in german language. But I´m workingon the english translation!

Review: TNT2 cards - Ultra classKarten der Ultra Klasse

You can find first details and specs about the new ASUS V6600 mit NVIDIA GeForce on the ASUS Taiwan website: ASUS V6600 GeForce 256

Update: I added some new benchmarks results of GeForce DDR card to the 3D Prophet results:

Update: GeForce DDR results

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