Anthony Rocket Launcher

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that happened about 1.5 years ago to a 320 chips. and that happened a quite earlier to a daytona chips. i was not smart enough to make some reserve, sic.

alright, alright. been quite busy a while.

i see some worthwhile proposals here.

in common, comrade ciacara72 gave quite a correct interpretation of my intentions.

time to announce a new revision has not come yet, so no comments from my side.

some great…

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hope someone will do it when they get their cards.

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the max bus clock tested is 44mhz so far. that board designed for a 5v pci slot, thus 33mhz bus clock. here is 80mhz clocked pcx2 on 44phz pci bus, (26.3fps): https://www.facebook.com/zxc64.hw/posts/1047333155748915

on stock clocks…

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definitely, new benchmarks with a 80mhz clock would be very interesting

i'd rather be interested in savage 2k than savage 4. unfortunately there's no datasheets available for this chip and very elusive pci versions of those cards exist, only the i-o data product is known.

PCX2 has support for its proprietary API PowerVR SGL, which makes it fun to play with. Also that part is significantly faster than any other PCX2 accelerator.

no hope. even if some crazy guy will do some great drivers, no software library support for such efforts. every game should be rewritten from scratch. that's how economics works.

before talking about crazy things i recommend to ask yourself, who will do the software job? this development is very expensive, i can not afford it.

pci

agp is i865 at max if not count ugly via chipset or nforce3. these are ok, good smooth gameplay. stutters appear only on pci-ex mobos. testers were interested only in native os for glide games, which is win9x (winme in particular), so no tests performed…

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so far tests are only in win9x. you could easily try it by yourself with any v3, v4 or v5 card. gta2 is a good test bench for how smooth is a gameplay on a pci video card. i believe that issue may be related to any other pci video…

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some games exposes unpleasant behaviour on faster systems with PCI-EX, GTA2 for example. i believe it should be noticeable on all VSA based cards with chips more than 1. in single chip mode gameplay is almost perfect. in 8x AA mode it is…

meanwhile, testing vsa based cards on high-performance systems exposed some issues like micro freezes or stuttering in some games. looks like i865 chipset is a maximum. if we see pci-ex, we see stutters, benchmarks are ok, but real game performance…

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i'd like to know what the drivers are suitable for those things?

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that kind of layout is much more expensive in pcb production, that's why no such working prototypes exist. 3dfx picked most cost-effective design for 4-chip board

aalchemy has 16-layer board, i presume, who will pay for that? also…

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things going slowly even if i want it quicker, sigh. second batch of pcbs has been put into production.