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29.06.98 - Speculations |
| There are new sepculations at 3D Overview
about problems with the RIVA TNT because the promises made by Nvidia showed a higher
performance. Now you can say that the benchmarks made by Cyrellis came from a prototype board and the drivers ran only at 50% ( How did they count that ? ). It´s your choice what you think about such speculations at this time. You can find a Overview of 21 actual 3D cards at The Fast Graphics Site |
27.06.98 - NVIDIA 3DNow! driver |
| Nvidia´s RIVA AGP driver that is optimized for AMD´s K6-2 with 3DNow! is now ready for download. The download did´nt work before. The driver does ONLY work with AGP cards: NVIDIA driverspage |
27.06.98 - 3D cards comparison |
| Jo Lux made a Webpage
with a comparison ble of 3D cards. He shows the technical data of the following cards:
RIVA TNT, PowerVRSG, Savage3D, G200, Banshee and Voodoo2. The RIVA TNT looks impressive in this comparison. If have no new information about a new
Erazor with TNT. You could read in the ELSA Newsgroup that a ZX Board will be ready at the
end of july and that a TNT board will come later in autumn. but I´m still waiting for
technical details of these cards. |
26.06.98 - FF7 - Reasons |
| You can read first answers of the developers to the
problems with FF7 at CYRELLIS and Bjorn3D. Besides RIVA cards, the game
does also not work with Rendition cards. Eidos Interactive and Square Electronic Arts L.L.C say that this is caused by the inability of these cards to work with Textures that have only 8-Bit color depth. The reason for the 8-Bit textures can be found in the roots of that game. The game was developed for Playstation with its less memory. This was not changed when the textures and effects were converted to PC. In a E-Mail from Eidos that can be read partly at CYRELLIS they say that there will be no support for other cards in future and that a solution has to come from the card developers. We´ll see if that are thes last words to that. It seems that the game developers have problems to follow the fast technical ecolution of today 3D accelerators (see Unreal). I hope that the chip devolopers will help the game developers to understand their cards and will not hide their technology but show the game developers how to use them best. Nvidia´s Summercamp is a first step in the right direction. Otherwise you will have one more problem if you want to buy a new game ! |
25.06.98 - FF7 no RIVA support |
| The new game Final Fantasy VII by EIDOS Interactive (
Tomb Raider ) does currently NOT support the RIVA / ZX chipset although ATI Rage Pro,
Intel I740, Matrox G200 and NEC PowerVR2 is supported through Direct 3D. This is abolutlutly not understandable, because the RIVA chip is optimized for Direct 3D. There´s a comment from NVIDIA at Rivazone´s Diskussion Board where you can read that the current RIVA driver (The actual Erazor driver is based on that) is certified by Microsoft´s Hardware Qualification Lab but they did not test that game yet. There´s no comment by EIDOS at the moment but you will read it at CYRELLIS soon. There´s also a description how to get that game 'running' with a RIVA chipset. One chance to show the developer of the game that RIVA support is very important is Rivazone´s E-Mail campaign. You can read a review of that game at Next Generation. |
24.06.98 - New ERAZOR W95 drivers v *-0302 |
| ELSA
released a new Windows 95 driver for the Erazor. The new driver with the number
v4.10.01.0302-0004 fixes an optical bug with follow up menues and 256 color mode.
See 'readme.txt' for installation. Download ( ca. 1MB ): Caution with Proxy ! If you use a proxy server you should download the tools directly from the ELSAdriversfolder after initiating a ! RELOAD ! A installed NV3Tweak v2.52 (145 KB) is overwriten by ELSA´s 3D-settings software after the installation of the new drivers. If you want to use the freeware that offers two more switches you have to install it again after the driver installation. |
22.06.98 - Win a modem with your ERAZOR |
| You can win three ELSA MicroLink 56k
High-Speed-Modems at the ELSA
homepage. You only have to tell ELSA what you think about your Erazor Board. It´s only
german languaged. There´s no row for my page included :-) Good luck: ERAZOR FRAGEBOGEN |
22.06.98 - 3DNow! page |
| If you are interrested in AMD´s K6-2 youu shoul take a look at The 3DNow! Page. You can find all news about K6-2 and 3DNow! there. |
22.06.98 - BETA Video Capture driver |
| Elsa released a beta version of a new Video capture driver. I had this driver for testing and I have to say that it runs very stable. Read 'README.TXT' for install instructions. |
20.06.98 - New Windows NT 4.0 drivers from ELSA |
| ELSA
released new drivers for Windows NT 4.0. You have to install service pack 3 for Windows NT
from Microsoft to get this driver
working without porblems. The driver includes an OpenGL ICD driver. The driver has the same version number than the driver before but it has a new upload date on the ELSA driverspage. Download: |
19.06.98 - New technology |
| If you want to get a overview of new technology coming in the next month you should take a look at the follwing webpages: |
19.06.98 - RIVA 128 driver for AMD K6-2 3DNow! |
| NVIDIA
released a new optimized driver for AMD´s K6-2 prozessor with 3DNow! technology. The driver is optimized for directX 6 and does only run with AGP cards. You will lose the TV-out function if you use this driver. I´m not able to test that driver cause I don´t have a AGP system. Mehr info and download at NVIDIA´s driverspage |
18.06.98 - deskTV v1.8 |
| Michael
Tirtasana released a new version of his videoviewer deskTV. The driver settings have
changed and now you can choose your capture driver ( with multiple capture drivers / cards
) via menu. Download on the deskTV page |
17.06.98 - Rayman 2 special |
| You can find a special about Ubisoft´s coming game
Rayman2 at VIDEOSPIELE.COM. The special includes screenshots and interviews with the authors. |
16.06.98 - Pressrelease from ELSA about TNT |
| Micheal Viramontes from ELSA posted a pressrelease about the new graphics card based on the RIVA
TNT. Here the most important parts from the Pressrelease: ".........ELSA's
next-generation ELSA VICTORY Erazor is expected to set new standards for 2D and 3D
graphics performance and quality in the mainstream market. Featuring the RIVA TNT, ELSA's
next generation VICTORY Erazor provides a 128-bit graphics pipeline to the frame buffer
interface and support up to 16MB of frame buffer memory and AGP 2X high speed
interconnect, resulting in a powerful solution for traditional 2D software to 3D intensive
games and DVD titles. ( comment: Frame Buffer: Part of the graphics memory in which
the image next to be displayed on the screen is generated. In addition, transparency
effects are calculated in the frame buffer ) Some technical information about the RIVA TNT: More information about the RIVA TNT is available at the webpages of NVIDIA, the developer of the RIVA128 and the anounced RIVA TNT. |
15.06.98 - ELSA and NVIDIA TNT |
| Cyrellis
posted a pressrelease from
Nvidia where you can read that ELSA will develop a TNT card. I´ve no information from ELSA to that but when I know some details I´ll post it here. |
15.06.98 - DDSpeed Benchmark |
| Michael
Tirtasana the author of deskTV developed a Direct Draw benchmark that tests the CPU /
PCI / AGP transfer rate under Direct Draw. Download: |
15.06.98 - Descent Freespace patch |
| Violition released a new patch for Descent Freespace.
You can find info about the new patch on the mainpage of Violition. Download ( 1,3 MB ): |
12.06.98 - Pentium II prizes |
| Intel lowered the prize for the Pentium II processor in germany. See an overview about the new prizes in D-Mark at hartware. |
12.06.98 - Off-topic - Badday Video |
| It is absolutly off-topic but you have to see this
mpg-video !!!! Download: |
10.06.98 - Optimizing Quake2 and RIVA |
| If you think your Quake2 does not run smooth on your
RIVA card take a look at: DAN KENNEDY'S RIVA 128 TWEAKING GUIDE. |
09.06.98 - TNT Screenshots at RIVAZONE |
| You can see two screenshots of Nvidia´s upcoming technology demo for the RIVA TNT at the webpages of RIVAZONE. The images are in a screen resolution of 1280x1024 and show the image quality of the TNT. |
09.06.98 - New Bios |
| The following changes were made in the new bios: |
08.06.98 - New ERAZOR Bios v1.55.00 |
| ELSA
released a new bios for the Victory ERAZOR. Read the instructions in the
"readme.txt" file or take a look into my FAQ if you don´t know what to do. Download: Caution with Proxy ! If you use a proxy server you should download the tools directly from the ELSAdriversfolder after initiating a ! RELOAD ! |
08.06.98 - AMD K6-2 and Nvidia |
| As you can read on the AMD webpages Nvidia is developing
a RIVA driver
who is optimized for 3DNow!. There will be a performance push of RIVA based cards through
the fast geometry calculation ability of 3DNow!. There is no known release date. In addition there is an overview of software that supports 3DNow! |
05.06.98 - Unreal News |
| There will be a OpenGL version of the game Unreal soon. It is running but not in
releaseable form. Direct3D will propably be available with DirectX 6, because there are problems with the texture sizes in DirectX5. It´s not known yet when the OpenGL patch will be released. |
05.06.98 - 3D screensaver |
| If you´re interested in 3D screensavers you should take a look to 3DFXMania. There are many that do work with the ERAZOR through Direct 3D or OpenGL. |
05.06.98 - New layout |
| There were critics on the new design of the newspages so I restored the old font size. In addition I changed the link color. Tell me what you think about it: @ |
04.06.98 - AMD K6-2 and more |
| If you want to know more about the new AMD K6-2
processor with 3DNOW! you should take a look at the webpages of CPU Madness. There you can find an
article about AMD´s 3DNOW!
and about the future of
3D. Another article about AMD´s K6-2 processor canbe found on Tom´s Hardware Guide. |
03.06.98 - RIVA TNT News aus Atlanta |
| Felby, from RivaZone made a special report to Nvidia´s announced RIVA TNT 3D chip. Read his report here: RivaZone´s E3 Special Report |
02.06.98 - N. I. C. E. 2 Demo the fourth |
| Synetic
released a fourth demo of their racing game NICE 2. In this demo you can driver on the
tracks Australia, Arizona, Egyptian, and F1 Track Melbourne and you can choose between the
following cars: McLaren F1 LM, Dodge Viper, Aston Martin DB5, and Citroen 'Ente' 2CV. Download:
( 24,5 MB ) Mipmap Level 8 for best performance ! |
02.06.98 - MainActor 1.65 |
| ELSA
released a new version of MainActor. This version fixes the problem that came with the
newest Erazor drivers. MainActor v1.65 does no longer run as trial version. Download:
( 4,2 MB ) |
02.06.98 - 50.000 hits |
| This page ran over 50.000 hits this weekend. I
want to thank everybody for the interest ! With this new month I´ve adapted the layout of this newspage to the other pages of this site. I hope it looks correct with any browser. |
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