Product Overview 

3D Features 

VIPER V330 Overview 

Key Features:

• True 128-bit Windows(R) acceleration
• NVIDIA RIVA 128 - the hottest new combo chip on the market

Phenomenal 3D gaming quality and action

• Complete hardware 3D feature set for for fast action game play and realistic animation
• Enhances the most popular Windows games, with support for Direct 3D
• Hardware accelerated OpenGL for professional design (under Windows NT 4.0)

Blistering 2D speed for business software

• Optimized for popular operating systems -- Windows 95 and Windows NT
• 4MB 100MHz SGRAM memory, fixed
• 230MHz RAMDAC for refresh rates up to 200 Mhz and resolutions of up to 1600x1200
• The latest bus technology on today's most popular PCs, both PCI and AGP versions
• Dual monitor support for more desktop space - great for professionals (only under the Windows NT 4.0 platform currently)

Advanced video features

• Playback and scaling of MPEG-1 multimedia
• Multi-tap filtering for 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 

• Triangle-based polygon rendering 
• Z-buffer for hidden surface removal 
• Alpha blending 
• Filtering & MIP mapping 
• Perspective-corrected texture mapping 

Feature Examples 

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 VIPER provides:

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

Here is the same image with alpha-blending that VIPER provides:

Here is an example of fogging effects: