About Stealth 3D 4000

Product Overview 

3D Features 

Table of Contents




Stealth 3D 4000 Overview 

Key Features:

  • Integrated AGP graphics
  • 64-bit 2D, 3D, and video pipeline

Accelerated 3D Gaming

  • Robust 3D feature set for fast action game play and realistic animation
  • Enhances most Windows games with support for Direct 3D
  • Hardware accelerated OpenGL for professional design (requires Windows NT 4.0)

High Performance 2D Windows

  • Accelerates Windows 95 and NT 4.0
  • 100MHz SGRAM memory for both 2MB fixed or 4MB fixed
  • 220 MHz RAMDAC for 85Hz refresh at up to 1600x1200 resolution
  • The latest bus technology on today's most popular AGP-enabled PCs

Advanced video features

  • Playback and scaling of MPEG-1 multimedia
  • High-quality video scaling

Upgradeable to DVD and TV tuner/video capture

  • Add Diamond's DVD option and watch DVD on the PC or TV
  • Add Diamond's DTV 2000 and watch TV, capture video and create web graphics

3D Features 

  • Gouraud shading 
  • Fogging 
  • Z-buffer for hidden surface removal 
  • Alpha blending 
  • Full-feature texture mapping using perspective correction, bilinear and trilinear filtering, transparency and MIP mapping (color key and alpha) 

Image Effects 

This is what a textured cube will look like WITHOUT perspective correction:

 



This is what your textured cube will look like WITH perspective correction:

 



Here is an example of anti-aliasing. The first image is without anti-aliasing:



Here is the same image with anti-aliasing effects that Stealth 3D provides:



Here is an example of alpha-blending. The first image is without alpha-bending:



Here is the same image with alpha-blending that Stealth 3D provides:



Here is an example of fogging effects: