Newsgroup: it.comp.hardware.video-3d
Titolo: HOW GOOD IS THE ATI RADEON 32MB DDR??

Im considering buying an ATI Radeon 32mb DDR.
If you have this graphics card, could you please spare a minutes and tell me
how good or bad it is.
Thanks
Chris Bartley

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I had a Radeon 32 MB DDR card for a while. The card is fast but I had some
problems with the drivers that caused me to return it. The Windows 2000
drivers are pretty bad with 2D applications: slow scrolling in IE 5.5 on
some web pages, occasional display corruption in IE 5.5 and Word 2000, and
some instability with Outlook Express 5.5 when graphics were displayed. I
never tried 3D under Win2K. Under Win98 the 2D was better, but still slow
scrolling in 2D when graphics are displayed. It worked ok with most 3D
games, but in Falcon 4.0 the HUD display fonts were corrupted and any game
that was limited to 16 bit color looked washed out. DVD performance under
Win98 was quite good except a few titles wouldn't play. The DVD software
didn't work at all under Win2K, and according to ATi, hardware DVD isn't
supported under Win2K anyway.
I decided that the card wasn't worth it with the current drivers and I
returned it and got a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP instead. The V5 has better Win2K
drivers and in general the drivers seem more stable and compatible than the
Radeon drivers. I play mostly simulator games and the V5 does a better job
for these applications. FSAA with the Radeon didn't work well; there was a
noticeable and unacceptable performance hit. FSAA with the V5 works better
and with FSAA set to 2X there is minimal impact on the display speed in
games like Falcon 4.0 and MS Combat Flight Simulator.
Whether the Radeon works well for you depends on the operating system and
applications you use. If you use Win98/ME and play games that happen to work
well with the Radeon drivers, then you will be happy with the card. If you
use Win2K or applications that are incompatible with the Radeon drivers,
then you may want to look elsewhere.
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they are doing the nvidia driver strategy
improve every month or so  they just realeased a set of final drivers for this
series of drivers
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 series of drivers
Which company is "they?"  I just checked the ATi support web site and they
are listing the same drivers versions that I tried. Actually, I tried all
three driver versions for the Radeon for both Win98 and Win2K with pretty
similar results. I just got the Voodoo 5500 card and haven't watched the
driver versions prior to this, but the date stamps show that they are pretty
recent.
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radeon
tho most of the drivers are betas
most of agqx does beta drivers for some card or other tring to eek out as many
fps as possible  look at places like sugshack  on the newsgroup alt.games.quake3
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i do
i just type the way i speak
rapidly and without pause (its a baltimore/essex maryland thing)
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