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23.07.98 - On Vacation |
| I´ll go on vacation for a few days and enjoy the fine weather we have at the moment. So there will be no news update. But I´m still reacheable through mail but I´ll view it irregular ( wether dependent :-) ) |
23.07.98 - 3D comparsion table |
| Jo Lux updated his comparsion table of coming 3D chipsets. There is also information about the new Permedia3 chip. You find it here. |
23.07.98 - TrayCap v2.4 |
| TET (Turkish Elsa Team) released a new
version of its video viewer TrayCap. The new version 2.4 came from King Crypto yesterday.
This new version does only wotk on ELSA boards. Download ( 267 KB ): TrayCap 2.4 |
21.07.98 - Video I/O hints |
| Carsten Skopinski a Video I/O
-driversdeveloper at ELSA gives some hints
to get the most best framerate with videocapturing: "...I prefer the following way:
In MainActor the ELSA-Videocompression ist optimized for best image quality to get a recompression with only litte quality loss. So you need a very fast machine to playback the video in MainActor. With the compression controller in the ELSA-Video I/O settingsmenu you can choose the strength of the compression. Currently 10 different settings are possible. If you move the controller to the left you have a compression at a factor of 2,5. In the most right position and the last 3 steps before that setting a temporary compression is activated that needs additional CPU-power......" Translated by Borsti You should set the compression in the middle position. You
have to test a bit to get the best setting fo your machine. |
20.07.98 - AeroFly OpenGL Demo |
| Aerofly is a simulator for remote
controlled model planes. This demo includes 5 plane-models which are steered by
experienced RC-pilots. Every model flight takes about 50 seconds. The game controlls are
in german language. You need a OpenGL driver for that game. The Erazor drivers work
without problems. Download: http://www.aerofly.de/demo/AeroFlyDemo.exe ( 3,7 MB ) |
19.07.98 - Plane Crazy Demo |
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Planecrazy by
Inner Workings Ltd is a
3D-Action game where you fly with a plane at highspeed through a track always trying to be
faster than your oponents. You can try one track in this demo. It does also support
multiplayer through IPX or TCP/IP.
You can get the demo here: |
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19.07.98 - UNREAL & OpenGL |
| You can find news to Unreal
and OpenGL at the Unreal page.
Accordingly to the information you find there only Rendition v2200 cards run at good
performance with the Unreal GL-Alpha driver. The most important paragraphs were pu together by Felby at RIVAZONE. |
17.07.98 - ELSA ERAZOR II |
| ELSA made an offical pressrelease about the new graphics card based on the nVidia RIVA TNT. The new card is called ERAZOR II. I´ll post the press release here as soon I have the translation. |
17.07.98 - Banshee / TNT comparsion |
| ELSA will built a card with
Voodoo Banshee chip from 3DFX. So I made a table where I compare the manufacturer data of
the Voodoo Banshee from 3DFX with the RIVA TNT from nVidia. I´ve tried to show all
important features of the two chips. There´s no benchmark test included because you
can´t find a neutral comparsion at the moment. The rumors speak of a performance slower
than Voodoo2 for the Banshee and a performance faster than Voodoo2 for the RIVA TNT. But
the Banshee will be cheaper. The table can be found here: 3DFX Voodoo Banshee / NVIDIA RIVA TNT comparsion |
16.07.98 - DirectX 6 news |
| Microsoft´s DirectX6.0 will
be available soon. The new version will be included in Servicepack 1 for Windows98 and
will also be available as update for Windows95. DirectX6.0 is said to be up to 60% faster in Direct 3D and will also support AMD´s 3DNOW! technology. A short slideshow of the features of DirectX6 can be found here. There´s also some information to DirectX7. Currently DirectX5.2 is the actual version and can be found at Microsoft´s DirectX page. As soon as I have DX6 I will post some benchmark results here. |
15.07.98 - Netscape Communicator 4.5 Preview 1 |
| At the FTP Server
you can find the new version of Netscapes Comunicator 4.5 Preview1. Datails to bugs and
features can be found at the Communicator
4.5 PR1 Release Notes page. ( Backup your adressbook before installation !) When I made the new channel on this page (wchich is nothing else but a bookmark) I was called to be a MS-Fan :-) I have enough trouble with this browser war and I always try to let the pages look the same with all browsers. |
15.07.98 - new ERAZOR drivers for WIndows 95/98 !UPDATED! |
| ELSA released a new driver for
the ELSA VICTORY Erazor for Windows 95/98. The WINman package includes a new version of
the WINman Suite, a new ELSA Info and a new Video I/O driver. Windows98 support is also
included. The display driver did not change. Only the ELSA-3D Settings have changed
because the program crashed on some systems if started through WINman Suite. Download:
WINman Suite
v1.05.04, ELSA Info v2.01.01, ELSA VideoIO v2.7.0.8-0004 For installation of the WINman Suite see manual installation in 'WinSuite.txt'. For the installation of the display driver see 'readme.txt'. |
14.07.98 - nVidia´s statement about TNT |
| At RIVAZONE you can find a statement of nVidia to the latest 'bad' TNT benchmark results. |
14.07.98 - ELSA card with Voodoo Banshee |
| ELSA will build a card with Voodoo Banshee chipset from 3DFX. This news coms froma presserelease of
ELSA-USA. The Banshee chipseet is not a add-on solution but a fully 2D/3D card. The card will offer up to 16MB and has a 230/250 MHz RAMDAC with resolutions of up to 1920x1440. At CeBit 1998 ELSA was not very interrested in the Banshee chipset. I hope I can givbe you more infos about that card soon. |
14.07.98 - Neue Windows NT4 Treiber |
| You can find new drivers for
Windows NT4 at ELSA´s driverspage.
Download: ELSA VICTORY Erazor, Windows NT 4.0 (built 1381.) driver for i386 CPUs v4.02.00.30 |
13.07.98 - nVidia 3DNOW! PCI drivers |
| nVidia now offers a PCI version of their RIVA-3DNOW! drivers. Download at the driverspage of nVidia. |
11.07.98 -Borsti´s RIVA Erazor Chatroom |
If you ever wanted to talk with other Erazor users you should take a look ti the new chatrrom: |
11.07.98 - Anand Tech testet TNT |
| Anand, of the webpage AnandTech was able to test a Riva TNT
card at Diamond. He also had the opportunity to run benchmarktests on a PII 233 and PII
400. The card was a aplha board with 16MB. You can find the review here. |
11.07.98 - nVidia Summercamp |
| Nvidia made a press release about the Summer Camp organized together with Microsoft, AMD, STB and Diamond Multimedia. Read it here. |
11.07.98 - Erazor LT |
| The Elsa graphics card with
RIVA ZX chipset that will be released early August will have the name ERAZOR LT. It
will have the following features: - allows 100
Mhz busrate There are no video I/O functions on board. That´s why it´s called 'LT'. |
10.07.98 - Flighsims |
| There´s not much to hear
about flightsims at the moment. If you want to get a overview about coming games take a
look at COBATSIM. Some Facts: Microprose develops European Air War (sceenshots) and Falcon4.0 (info). Unfortunately Micoprose could not tell me what 3D-Hardware EAW will support. It´s also not sure if Falcon 4.0 will support RIVA. S.S.I. develops Flanker 2.0 (screenshots). In the past it was to hear that the game will support OpenGL but that´s not sure yet. |
09.07.98 - Display Doctor 6.53 |
| Scitech offers a new version of its Display Doctor Software. Besides of new monitors there is also a screen-adjust function for RIVA cards included. The trial-version can be found here: Display Doctor Download page |
08.07.98 - Wing Commander news |
| Origin will release a new Wing
Commander episode called SECRET OPS later this summer. The game is based on the latest
Prophecy version and offers new and enhanced weapons and larger battles. The special thing about that game is that it will be available only through internet. In 7 episodes that can be downloaded via internet and which will be presented weekly you can play 56 single player missions. The best on that is that it will be for free. Besides the costs you have with the download there is nothing more to pay. It will start at 24. August. A first intro can be found here:
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07.07.98 - FF7 Screenshots |
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These screenshots were made with the FF7 demo with rendition patch. |
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07.07.98 - nVidia´s FF VII FAQ |
| NVIDIA offers a FAQ about the problems with
Final Fantasy VII: Q: It has been reported on
the Eidos web site that FF7 doesn't support the RIVA128 and 128ZX. The most interesting point to that is that the developer reacted on the pressure made by webpages and this shows that the user is not powerless at all. It also shows that no developer can ignore the RIVA 128 anymore. |
06.07.98 - Final Fantasy VII |
| Bjorn-3D offers a patch for Rendition
cards for the FF VII demo. This patch does also work with RIVA 128 cards.
This patch is only for the demo ! Place the config file in the demo's directory. In order for it to work the file "ff7config.exe" must be removed from the demo's directory. Then you have to disable the 'Use Square Textures Only' option in the NV3Tweak or ELSA-3D settings. Download: Final Fantasy VII demo ( 9,3 MB ): FF7 Rendition Patch - 1KB |
04.07.98 - Video Overlay Software |
| Stephan Bilgenroth announced a new version v1.22 of his video Overlay software. You can download it at his Webpage in 'diverses'. See special hints for installation (DLL´s). |
04.07.98 - Fireworks D3D Bildschirmschoner |
| There´s a new D3D screensafer
available made by VR-Man. Download ( 550
KB ): ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/3dfxmania/screensavers/vrfireworks.zip
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04.07.98 - Quake 2 v3.17 |
| ID Software released a new patch for
Quake2. Download: ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake2/q2-317-x86.exe
Information about the patch can be found here |
04.07.98 - Channel - Link update |
| IE users who subscribed this
page as channel should update the link because of a bug in the code. There were no images available with the old link. To fix that simply subcribe to the channel again and overwrite the old setting. Users of other browsers do not have to care for that. There are no disadvantages through that channel. A channel is only a special kind of bookmark for IE, nothing more. |
03.07.98 - BHunter Demo |
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There´s an early demo
available to the game BHunter of
InterActivision. You can cruise through a city with a hovercraft.
Download (2,4MB): |
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02.07.98 - Erazor ZX / TNT rumors |
| According to rumors ELSA will present a Erazor board with RIVA ZX
and 8MB. These Boards will have no video-I/O and will be available as Bulk early august. There will be NO 8MB / ZX Version with video-I/O. A retail version, including manuals and packing will come in september. Further rumors imply that ELSA will produce a Board with RIVA TNT and 16MB, including one version with video-I/O and one without. |
01.07.98 - Subscribe this page as a channel |
| Users of Microsoft´s Internet Explorer now can subscribe this newspage as a channel. Also users of the 'active desktop' of Win95 and Win98. |
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