3D RAGE 2C PCI DRIVER

It seems despite die shrink ATI did not made any architectural advancements, at least not in 3d. Experience As you will see in the performance summary improvements in the 3d architecture are not to be seen in real games. Number of games that can be actually run is of course limited, so gallery is not very big. Same features, same image quality, as can be seen in the gallery. And Rage II ain't some speedster. Thus the improvement over first Rage II comes down only to more memory. This page was last edited on 7 June , at

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Experience As you will see in the performance summary improvements in the 3d architecture are not to be seen in real games.

For it's time it is quite feature rich and can draw nice pictures, unless one nasty bug kicks in. Views Read Edit View history. However some bugs and simplifications hold image quality back.

3D Rage II family review (DVD, VT4, IIc)

Almost every version of Rage was used in mobile applications, but there were also some special versions of these chips which were optimized for this. Perspective correction and 32 bit depth and even Z-buffering have little impact, but bilinear filtering higher than desirable performance drop. Retrieved from " https: Despite the poor introduction, the name Rage Pro Turbo stuck, and eventually ATI was able to release updated versions of the driver which granted a visible performance increase in games, however this was still not enough to garner much interest from PC enthusiasts.

As a low-power solution with capable 2D-acceleration, the chip was used on many low-end graphics cards. This late chip was very similar to the Rage II and supported the same application coding.

With memory bandwidth and sufficient capacity to allocate, true color rendering is a possibility. Most important was z-buffering implemented in hardware, as it became requirement for many Direct3D games.

The processor was known for its well-performing bit color mode, but also its poorly dithered bit mode; strangely, the RAGE was not much faster in bit color despite the lower bandwidth requirements. Same features, same image quality, as can be seen in the gallery. On the hardware side Rage II was a solid low end 3c, but still with insufficient fillrates for x and therefore in great distance of performance chips. Aside from the VR chip's lower price-point, the main difference was rae the former was a full bit design, while the VR, still a bit processor internally, used a bit external memory interface.

This page was last edited on 7 Juneat There are tweakers with sliders that should help with this issue sacrificing some performance, but I couldn't achieve any change.

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All 3d primitives from points to quadrilaterals are supported. It is the successor to the Mach series of 2D accelerators. Reported chip clock pvi 75 MHz, but that is wrong without a doubt. Thus the improvement over first Rage II comes down only to more memory.

More promising feature could be texture compression technique with two to four times compression ratio, but by this ATi understood less exciting palletized textures. And Rage II ain't some speedster. It scored with imperfect, but well chosen feature set including 3f important blending modes. NT put them both on the AGP bus and switched between them, and so the board could only operate as a single Rage Pro with the performance of a Rage Fury card.

ATI RAGE IIC graphics card - RAGE IIC - 4 MB

Come to think of it 3f many small triangles were in old games? Rage LT aka Mach64 LT was often implemented on motherboards and in mobile applications like notebook computers. This time the architecture was definitely up to date with all of the critical 3d features working. It ragw also seen on Intel motherboards, as recently asand was still used in for server motherboards.

Also depth buffer never delivered improved performance, so it is unlikely there is any z-compare rejection of pixels.

Maybe newer drivers broke compatibility with the tweak. It seems pc die shrink ATI did not made any architectural advancements, at least not in 3d. Archived copy as title Pages using deprecated image syntax Commons category link is locally defined.

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Only vertex fogging is performed rather slowly and often incompatible with transparent surfaces. None of the advantages of my Rage IIc can help it challenge any high performance architecture, so I put it against last Virge in disguise. I did some feature tests on VT4 in Tomb Raider 2.