I've worked on Win98 and Win95, and my experiences with ATI have been
different. For the ATI Rage Pro, like you, I had no hardware acceleration
(as you said _very_ slow). However, with the Rage 128, I've had excellent
hardware acceleration on windowed OpenGL, and certainly no errors in
rendering.
It sounds like driver issues with me. The fault still lies with ATI, of
course, but I think the hardware is sound.
By the way, I've tested on Voodoo 1, 2, & 3, and ATI Rage Pro & 128, and the
only system I've gotten windowed OpenGL hardware acceleration from is the
Rage 128.
Bobby
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From: Jim Schatzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] ATI Rage 128 PRO on Win2000
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 15:13:20 -0600
I don't think this is a Win2K problem per se. I have had very poor success
with
any of the ATI Rage series on both WinNT and Win 2K. The Rage Pro chipset
appears to work o.k. but without hardware acceleration for OpenGL (VERY
SLOW).
In my experience an ATI Rage 128 Pro on a WinNT performed not just slowly
but incorrectly, and therefore the video card had to be replaced with
another
(NVidia-based) that did work.
Amongst my associates, ATI has a very poor reputation for OpenGL support.
This despite the fact that ATI claims (on their websites and in their
product literature)
to have full OpenGL support.
Jim Schatzman
At 08:25 AM 9/6/2000 -0400, J. Lee Dixon wrote:
>Anybody have any experience/luck with this video chipset on Win2000? I
>have not seen it first-hand, but my customer is trying to run my java 3d
>applet and their mouse cursor flashes whenever it is placed within the
>3D window. If you go to the ATI site, they force you to download a
>reference driver, but this driver didn't clear up the problem.
>
>I already hate W2K. ;)
>
>J. Lee Dixon
>Software Engineer
>SAIC - Celebration, FL
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