High Performance 2D/3D Graphics Engine & Multimedia Accelerator

 



  • High-Resolution Graphics-Acceleration up to 1600 x 1200
  • TrueColour with 1024 x 768, 100Hz
  • High Performance 2D / 3D and Video Accelerator with up to 4MB EDO DRAM
  • Supports DirectX 3 (incl. Direct3D and DirectDraw)
  • High Quality Video Scaler with X and Y Interpolation

Specification

High Performance Graphics Accelerator

  • S3 ViRGE DX graphics processor with 170 MHz RAMDAC and streams processor for accelerated video playback
  • 2 or 4 MByte fast EDO DRAM
  • PCI 2.1 Bus
  • VESA Power Management Support
  • Chromakey, Colourkey and Sprite support
  • 1280 x 1024 pixels with HighColour (16 Bit, 65536 colours) at 75 Hz ergonomic display mode
  • 1024 x 768 pixels with TrueColour (24 bit - 16,7 million colours) at 100 Hz display mode
  • 800 x 600 pixel with True Colour (24 bit - 16.7 million colours) at 120 Hz display mode

Optimized 2D Acceleration

  • BitBlt, Line Draw, Polygon Fill

Optimized 3D Acceleration

  • Flat and Gouraud Shading
  • Texture Mapping with perspective Correction, Bi- and Tri-linear Filtering
  • Mip mapping
  • Z-Buffering

Video

  • Scaling of digital Video like VideoCD (MPEG-1) or Video for Windows with X and Y interpolation
  • Hardware colour space conversion
  • Hardware double buffering
  • Prepared for Diamond’s DVD solutions

Software

BIOS

  • VESA 2.0 support
  • DDC2B support

Graphics Driver for

  • Windows® 95
  • Windows® 3.1
  • Windows NT™ 3.51 and NT™ 4.0

Additional Software for Windows® 95

  • InControl Tools 95
  • DirectX 3 incl. Direct3D, DirectDraw and DirectVideo support
  • Software MPEG decoder
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer

Additional Software for Windows® 3.1x

  • Software MPEG decoder
  • Video for Windows DCI support
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer

Additional Software for Windows NTTM 4.0

  • DirectDraw
  • Software MPEG decoder
  • Multi monitor support
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer

Additional Driver for DOS

  • MS-DOS refresh tool
  • MS-DOS mode centring tool

Software Bundles (Games)

POD by UbiSoft
MGI Photosuite


Display Modes

Resolution

Colours

60 Hz

70 Hz

72 Hz

75 Hz

85 Hz

100 Hz

120 Hz

640x480

256

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

64k

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

16M

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

800x600

256

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

64k

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

16M

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

1024x768

256

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

 

64k

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

 

16M

4MB

4MB

4MB

4MB

4MB

4MB

 

1152x864

256

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

 

64k

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

 

1280x1024

256

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

64k

4MB

4MB

4MB

4MB

1600x1200

256

2MB

Note: The chart represents modes supported in Windows® 95. All modes and refresh rates may not be available for other operating systems.

System Requirements

  • IBM 486 or better or other 100% compatibles
  • 4 MB RAM
  • MS Windows 95 or DOS 5.0 or higher or Windows 3.1x
  • PCI 2.1 compliant motherboard and available slot
  • No other active VGA or SVGA compatible graphics accelerator in the PC

 

Compatibility

  • 100% compatible with VGA, SVGA and VESA Standard


Display Modes

  • 5 years warranty
  • Free Software updates via BBS, Internet (www.diamondmm.de) CompuServe (GO SPEA)
  • Fax-on-demand system
  • Technical support through Hotline



  Diamond Multimedia Northern Europe

610 Wharfedale Road, Winnersh Triangle
Wokingham/Berks, RG41 5TY, UK
Fax: ++44(0)1189-444401

Diamond Multimedia Central Europe

Moosstraße 18 b,
D-82319 Starnberg
Fax: ++49 8151 21258

Diamond Multimedia Southern Europe

6, Blvd. Général Leclerc - Bat C - 15ieme Etage
Clichy 92115 - FRANCE
Fax: ++33-1-47561139


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