S3 Virge 3D 4MB with PowerVideo chip..

Hi

Looking my old boards I find one S3 Virde 3D PCI 4MB RAM, with PowerVideo (?) chip installed.

My questions are.....

With this board it's possible to use Warp3D?

What about Amiga 3D Games?

What´s the purpouse of the "PowerVideo" chip? (or something like that)

I know it´s not the best graphics board (is slow). But, my idea is to install on my A4000D (Mediator 4000Di) combined with my Radeon 9250. It´s possible? Any advantage?

Thanks

can you post a picture of the card? I doubt it will work in an amiga btw...

@keropi

Yes, of course, this evening I send a pair of pics.

Thanks

The Virge is supposed to be supported under Picasso96 on the Mediator busboard.

Using it together with the Radeon is also possible. But keep your mind sharp while configuring the Mediator environment variables, because it'll ask you about the primary gfx card to configure the DMA vindow using the graphicscards memory. Doing this wrong will cause a crashy system.

The Warp3d documentation lists chips that it supports. I think it has some hardware accelleration support on the Virge, if memory serves me right it was the first 3d chip that was available to Amigas way back when with the CyberVision3d card.

@arnljot

So, If I undertand well, the best is to configure the Radeon as primary card, right? Because is 256MB.

Sorry, but some more questions.....

With older RTG graphics boards (PCI), Virge, Voodoo, etc. the video out it´s only for WB screens and promoted applications?

The video out for older games stay on RGB, composite or Indivision?

Amiga 3D games runs only on RTG Warp3D enabled boards?

Thanks

Yes, you've understood it all correctly.

@merlinkv

Warp3D does support the ViRGE chipset - its not the best 3D accelerator but atleast it has some acceleration.

I beleive you will have a problem when configuring two PCI graphics cards, personally I would suggest getting a Voodoo5500 (64MB) PCI as that is fully supported with Warp3D and you can still use 32MB or more for your system RAM.

Orr you can hold on for Radeon 3D drivers....

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Originally Posted by Zetr0

Orr you can hold on for Radeon 3D drivers....

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Then his beard will be as white and long as yours :)

@Zetr0

Yes, I know the Voodoo5 5500 is the best one. But really hard to find at good price. I see one on E-Bay but I think is very expensive for an old PCI board.

Radeon 3D drives for linux do exist..... its a case of some one crazy enough and with enough time willing to port them.

What doesn't help is elbox's closed developer programm

I was looking to writing / porting some drivers for the PCI products that elbox provide, I contacted about sources etc and dev-kit - before I could get that much needed resource I had to agree to an NDA and the driver or software I wrote would not be public - but belong to them...

see that takes / extracts the urine as I wrote it free and they will sell it (or use it to sell a product) - kinda supa sucks to be honest, so I decided to have a look down the Open PCI (prometheus) alas I couldn't find a a prometheus card within budget for my target machine at the time.