Speaking about Rampage..

Zitat von GrandAdmiralThrawn

I think it's really just using D3D9 libraries (the files containing the D3D9 API), running the exact same test... I might be wrong. But it should be possible to verify this. At least when it comes to pixel shader application. The D3D9 API can very well render a D3D5, 6, 7 or 8 scene as well.

Exactly. Like I wrote somewhere in this thread before, it's just a small test to see if the libraries are installed correctly. With D3D9 a lot did change (new features and programming a lot simpler), but it still uses the basic command of the earlier Direct3D versions.

Oh and I think you mean the tool called "filter tester", but it just highlights the applied texture filtering.

I meant something like the [SVIST test] in the full version of AquaMark 3, showing where in the scene it's got shader model 1.x and 2.0 implemented for pixel shaders:

I thought there was a generic tool to do that in any 3D engine, but maybe I'm mixing things up here...

Rampage was the one and only chip supporting PixelShader 1.0, I think. All others started with PS1.1.

Does this only happen when using the 3dfx tool panel or also when tuning some game setting?

so sad that this NVidia-Kick-Ass Killa didnt went into mass-destruct-production -_-

i will nuke that blaming credit institute that 3dfx had..... =]

@ gdonovan
epic nice stuff

@ Lt.Com.DATA

NVIDIA just bought their assets, as where 3dfx killed themselves by making a few deadly and bad moves, like taking the Rampage team to work on a useless product like Banshee Which was not successful like Voodoo Graphics, Vodooo2 & Voodoo2 SLI were, Voodoo3 was a good product but it was still beaten by TNT 2 Ultra from NVIDIA and Matrox G400MAX, as for Voodoo5 and the later released Voodoo4, these were my favs but they were actually made to fill in the delay gaps for Rampage which sadly never made it to the market, anyways that is my version of it all in a very short sentence.

So all in all it was their own fault they ran out of money and killed themselves with such flaws and not NVIDIA's

There by we should be happy NVDIA bought them this way all their debts could be paid off greatly and the ex-3dfx employee's just could continue their jobs @ NVIDIA or ATI as some went to ATi also, but again they too faced a similar thing when AMD ate them up lol

So to be very honest I really do not see any problems with all that I totally love my EVGA/ NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Red Editions, GTX 480 & GTX 680 Super Clocked Signature Editions as I love my 3dfx Voodoo's, ATi Radeons, Matrox Parhelia's and S3 Savages

They all are just VGA cards to me and simply all of them are awesome. But when it comes to main use? Always NVIDIA , mainly due to a subtle and stable driver package, plus a more complete API package, something ATi/AMD Radeons lack on having. But that is always user defined I'm like some could prefer a Radeon over GeForce too, it's all a personal choice of flavour.

Sorry but I don't bash VGA card companies anymore, I'm too old for such things, We now have AMD & NVIDIA to choose from, it would be nice if Matrox & S3 tried to come up with something, but I guess that too is a run for it's money.
We can always make an other thread about that elsewhere

Anyways no more offtopic from me, sorry for that

Hmm oh oke, Then I understood it incorrectly heh, even though I envy NVIDIA their drivers are rock solid. But support wise I'd take EVGA over NVIDIA any day, they just care more for their customers even that they are a vendor of NVIDIA.

But hey thanks for the explanation Gary, I never thought it would be like that, good example how dirty companies can really be at each other :X

How is the Rampage catching along? I hope you are able to get any further with it Many thanks for posting all your results here mate

Zitat von gdonovan

3) Rampage REALLY likes Thief engine games, they ran mostly fine aside from a single crash during testing Thief. Thief the Dark Project is really dark though and cranking the gamma only helped a little. Runs the same under Win95 or Win98SE so no advantage to continue testing under Win95.

Thief 1 & 2 were really nice games. I like it.

Try using a HD camera, this should give you much better image quality and much cleaner results too
That game looks scary haha It gives me great memories alright rofl! Makes me wanna play it on my Voodoo5 5500 again

Ha, I love Final Reality, so cool. Always reminds me of Second Reality from '93.

Cool to see it work, even if it's a bit sluggish in certain parts.

Yeah this is really nice, I never heard of Final Reality either

It looks very up to date for it's time, does it have Glide Support also? So I can test this on my V5 5500 AGP x4 for example
As for the stuttering that could be that the P3 800 is forming a bottleneck for the Rampage or the Rampage is hitting it's VRAM limitation, but I doubt this.
Now to find out what causes it to crash? I suspect drivers or Bios, never can be sure heh.

Final Reality is Direct3D only. It was released in the time when AGP started to become cool. 1997 or 1998 if I am not mistaken. It also features a texture test with a map 64MB in size to test for AGP texturing capabilities. The cool thing is the city scene homage to the Assembly '93 winner demo, "Second Reality". If you wanna see Second Reality you'll either need a DOS machine, DOSBox or Youtube.

Final Reality 1.01 download [here], in case you're interested. Not sure whether it works fine on modern systems too.