OpenGL support fo DXXM! Owners of DXXM 2, Final DXXM - Evolution, Final DXXM - The Plutonia Experiment, Ultimate DXXM, Registered DXXM 1 und DXXM Shareware can reactivate that 'old' game.

glDXXM
Install glDXXM to your DXXM directory. RIVA TNT works without problems, RIVA 128 should also work well. A full OpenGL (ICD) driver is needed. Homepage - Download (980KB): Server1 - Server2

New NVIDIA Win9X reference drivers are available from the Microsoft WHQL Site. The drivers should run with PCI and AGP cards. Use them on your own risk: RIVA 128 v2.83 Win 9X drivers

One more demo and some TNT screenshots of Alien vs. Predator:

FIFA99
Football fans should take a   look on this. It seems that itīs not playable! Homepage - Download (14MB): English - German - more

Alien vs. Predator
The game is based on the comic series Alien vs. Predator. Homepage - Download (47,6MB): Server 1 - Server 2

ELSA released a new version of the Video Editing Software MainActor. Owners of a  ELSA GLoria Synergy, ELSA WINNER 2000/Office and ELSA VICTORY Erazor can us it as registered Software by using ELSA card drivers.
Download: MainActor v2.06 (9MB)

Texel made a small comparsion between NVIDIA TNT reference drivers. They compare from version v0.36 to v0.48. The table shows only small changes at 16Bit colordepth and a bit lower rates at truecolor: Drivercomparsion

The Super 7Hardware Guide reviewed a Diamond Viper V550 on Super Socket 7 systems with ALI and MVP3 chipset and intel Pentium MMX 233/Cyrix MII 333/AMD K6-2/350 CPUīs. With the release of ALI's AGP drivers version 1.5 all previous lockup problems with the TNT graphics chip seem to have disappeared. You can find the article here.

EnTech Taiwan released a new version of its Powerstrip Software. The new version v2.30 adds a color temperature control for desktop publishers, bolstered NT DPMS support, and refresh rates up to 200Hz for the Permedia2 under NT. 16bpp TNT color calibration is now supported under NT as well as Windows 9x, and there is a new switch that adjusts the DAC gamma ramp to match chromaticity information obtained directly from the monitor. More information canbe found here. Download: Powerstrip v2.30 (779KB)

ELSA released new drivers for the Erazor II (As announced on Saturday). The new drivers are based on the v0.48 reference drivers: ELSA Erazor II drivers

There is a problem with the version of Incoming that is supplied with the Creative Labs GB Riva TNT and ASUS V3400 TNT card which affects the use of joysticks with the game. Rage Software has released a patch to fiy that problem: TNT Joystick fix. (330KB)

Thanx to Kaiman which posted the ASUS setting in the RIVA Station discussion board!

ELSA will release a new Win9X driver for the Erazor II next monday. The driver v0200-0016 is based on the newest NVIDIA reference drivers 0.48. The driver will inlcude the following improvements:

- ECO - MODE bug fixed
- newer version of "ELSA Settings" integrated
- Unreal -- several visual artifacts are corrected
- Descent3 demo -- texture problems are corrected
- Rogue Squadron - W-buffering problems are corrected.
- 3DStudio MAX 2.0 and higher - significant changes in terms of look and performance.
- Caligari TrueSpace 4.0 occasional crashes fixed
- Solidoworks 98 fixes some rendering anomolies

Slashdot has a information about XFree86 3.3.3 and NVIDIA. It speaks that NVIDIA insisted to withdraw two source files from the driver that they had supplied to them and replace some other source files with versions that were partly run through the C preprocessor. NVIDIA states that they decided to modify some of their source to protect intellectual property, something that was not taken kindly by the XFree86 Project. You find the complete article here.

Pfuscherīs Techware! made a comparsion between the AMD K6/2 and intelīs Celeron 300A. The used graphics card is a Matrox Millenium G200. The tests were made a different clockspeeds and do also include 2D tests: Slot1 vs Super Socket7.

If you want to upgrade your system today you may not know which 3D chip is the best for you. Aceīs Hardware made an article comparing all current 3D chips and showing their advantages and disadvantages. You can find the article here.

Gamespot does also care about that question considering your current system and the games you like most. You find that article here.

The german languaged page 3D Concept made an article about overclocking. They tell you what overclocking means, how it works and what risks you have to expect. The article is in german language. You can find it here.

Grandmaster B. takes a look at the problems of scalability of 3D accelerators. He explains that a accelerator card should unburden the CPU, to perform well with slower CPUīs. But if you do so youīll have a bottleneck if the CPU getīs faster because the 3D chip is the limitating factor.
The reason for the limit Iīve found at TNT Scaling: PII 450MHz vs PII 333MHz is not found yet. It may be the fill rate of the TNT chip or the onboard-memory. With growing resolution you have a increase of data: At 1024x768 you have 768KB of Pixeldata , thatīs 2,5 more than at 640x480.

You can read at PlanetRIVA that NVIDIA released new RIVA TNT referencedrivers Version 0.48. The following problems are fixed:

1. Unreal -- several visual artifacts are corrected, including a "rainbow" effect on some textures. There are still someTexture downloading performance issues that we are working on, but this is a significant improvement.
2. Descent3 demo -- texture problems are corrected.
3. Rogue Squadron from LucasArts -- W-buffering problems are corrected.
4. 3D Studio MAX 2.5 -- fixes possible freeze of desktop, better wireframe drawing, fixes miscellanious crashes when selecting objects
5. Multigen Creator 2.2 -- textured object performance dramitically faster
6. Caligari TrueSpace 4.0 -- occasional crashes fixed
7. Solidoworks 98 -- fixes some rendering anomolies
Also, users who run 3DStudio MAX 2.0 and higher will see significant changes in terms of look and performance

You can find the drivers here: v0.48 Win95/98 AGP - v0.48 Win95/98 PCI - v0.48 WIN NT4
If you agree with the licence agreement you find on the pages above you can also try your luck here: v0.48 Win95/98 AGP

    01.12 - REVIEW: ASUS V3400 TNT/TV

I finaly finished the English translation of the review of the ASUS V3400 TNT/TV. Thanks to Michael Birke for helping me out with the translation! Review ASUS AGP-V3400 TNT/TV

Armin Lenz of VoodooNation made an article comparing AMDīs K6-2/350 and PII-333/450. Heīs searching for the reasons for the difference between K6-2 and PII and shows where you can reach limitations of the PC architecture. Read teh article here.

The demo-version of Descent3 is released. There might be some problems with TNT drivers in D3D as you can hear. Screenshots at RIVA 3D show that it works fine using OpenGL. I didīnt test the demo yet so I canīt tell you more about these problems.
Homepage - Download (30MB): Server 1 - Server 2

NVIDIAīs RIVA 128 scaled very good with the CPU in the past. But what about the RIVA TNT?
I made a couple of benchmark runs and compared the results of a PII 333MHz with a 450MHz PII CPU. A small comment here: The results make me sober. But more of that in the article: CPU-Comparsion: PII 450MHz vs PII 333MHz.

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