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News archives: Oktober 2 - archives overview |
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month: ELSA Interview in English language Demo collection Diamond Interview in English language |
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News archives: Oktober 2 - archives overview |
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| Topics of the
month: ELSA Interview in English language Demo collection Diamond Interview in English language |
| 15.11 - Erazor II review at Frontline |
The webzine Webzine Frontline made a review of the ELSA Erazor II with RIVA TNT. You can find the article hier. |
| 15.11 - Neue Viper V550 Treiber |
Diamond-Germany released new drivers for the Viper V550. This new driver should fix the problems with ALI-Boards and K6-2: Diamond Viper V550 Drivers |
| 13.11 - TNT with NT in 3D |
The question how the TNT performs in Windows NT and how fast ist is in 3D aplications in comparsion to Permedia 2 cards is not answered yet.Voodoo Nation now made a comparsion of the ELSA Erazor II (TNT) mit der ELSA Gloria Synergy (Permedia2) under Windows NT: NT4.0 Shootout |
| 13.11 - New Total3D drivers |
Canopus released new drivers for the RIVA128 card Total 3D. The new drivers support 3DNow! and offer Multimonitor-Support in Win98: Canopus Total 3D 128V Treiber |
| 12.11 - GL Quake Benchmarks |
Mike Chambers from Mike´s Diamond Viper Recources made a couple of benchmark runs with his Viper V550 and GLQuake (1) with normal and overclocked graphics board. |
| 11.11 - New ASUS V3000 drivers |
ASUS released new Win9X drivers for the AGP/3DP-V3000(ZX) RIVA card. The new drivers have 3DNow!/MDS support. In addition there´s Live Video 2.2 beta available: AGP/3DP-V3000(ZX) |
| 11.11 - New Discussionboard |
| You can find a new discussionboard (I know, you write it with 'c' :-)) at RIVA Station.The old was very slow and not very comfortable. I made a extra-board for this English language part of the page. |
| 11.11 - Blood2 Demo-Update |
| The page Blood2.com reports that a update for the old version of the Blood2 demo (2,8MB) is released by Monolith. So you don´t have to download the whole demo again. Some bugs are fixed and the demo offers new performance. |
| 11.11 - News from Entech |
There´s new sofware available from Entech Software. One is a new beta version of the tool Powerstrip, that allows overclocking. Another free new tool is MultiRes, that replaces quickres and has multimonitor support. More info at the Entech newspage. |
A new RIVA TNT card review at RIVA Station: The ASUS AGP-V3400 TNT / TV. At the moment only in german language. I´ll need a few days for the translation. The AltaVista Translation may help you a bit. You can find the german version here: TESTBERICHT. |
Finaly the ELSA Interview made during the review Erazor II vs. Viper V550 is available in english language. You can find it here. |
| 10.11 - Erazor II review bei 3D Concept |
The 3D-graphics page 3D Concept made a review of the ELSA Erazor II. The results are compared with the ELSA Victory II with 3Dfx´s Banhee. |
| 08.11 - Trigger 3D Examiner v1.1 |
| Trigger 3D Examiner is a benchmark made in
Taiwan. It offers 3D benchmark and 3D Quality tests. The creator is Trigger Inc. The menus are in chinese (?) letters, so it´s a bit hard to read it :-). Maybe someone can help out with that!
You can find the actual Version here (11,5 MB): Download 3D Examiner v1.1 |
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| 08.11 - TNT in SS7 Boards |
| HPC Hardware Guide made a article about the problems of the TNT on ALI based Super Socket 7 Mainboards. HPC recommends to use the newest ALI Mainboard drives and the reference drivers 0.37 (Newest Diamond Viper V550 drivers are based on 0.39....). You can find that article here. |
Many new demos released in
the past weeks. In the following I´ve made a small collection including screenshots made
with my Erazor II (RIVA-TNT). The screenshot-resolution is 800x600:
I want to than the company 4FRONT, whose 34Mbit internet connection made the downloads 'a bit' easier. |
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| 07.11 - Spectra Review at Frontline |
| 06.11 - Tomb Raider III - Demo |
| Eidos released a demo of Tomb Raider III. I´ll post
some TNT screenshots soon. Download (7,5 MB): Server1 |
| 05.11 - Neue Velocity 4400 Treiber |
| STB released new Win 95/98 drivers and a new BIOS for the Velocity 4400 with RIVA TNT: STB Velocity V4400 drivers |
| 05.11 - accelerated XServer? |
You find information about
plans of a accelerated by nVIDIA at Dimension 128. James N Putnam of nVIDIA speaks of the problems of patent
protection and protected chip specifications. You find that news here. |
| 04.11 - New Erazor II drivers |
ELSA released new divers for the Erazor II. Primarily the implementation of capabilities to define new timings by the ELSA Settings is improved. ELSA ERAZOR II, Windows 9x driver In addition there are also new drivers for Windows NT4: ELSA ERAZOR II, Windows NT 4.0 (built 1381.)
driver for i386 CPUs |
| 03.11 - Quick poll cooling fan - results |
In one week there where (only) 250 votes.
The result is clear. It is a reason for puchase for a quater of the voters, for 50% it´s
a important feature. For about 18% it does´n matter if the card has a colling fan or not
and 5% don´t know what a cooling fan is....<g>
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| 03.11 - 3D Winbench 99 |
ZD has released hat 3D Winbench 99. The
new version supports DirectX 6 and looks more like a game than ever thanks to new scenes
and a wealth of state-of-the-art rendering options: 3D Winbench 99
Homepage. The package has a size of about 72MB! |
| 03.11 - Velocity Review at CPU Madness |
| You can find a review of the STB Velocity 440 at CPU Madness. They compare the card with the Creative Labs Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT. |
| The ELSA and Diamond interviews I made in
my review Erazor II vs. Viper V550 are now available in
Englisch language. ThanX to Michael Birke who helped me out with the translation!. The Diamond interview is online, the ELSA Interview follows tomorrow! |
| 02.11 - Erazor II Bios |
| ELSA released a new Bios version (v2.03.00) for the Erazor II with RIVA TNT. Download (213KB): ERA2BIOS.ZIP |
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