Saturday, November 20, 1999

S3 T&L Update -- 1:12 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

MaximumPC has updated its comments about the Savage 2000's hardware T&L support. Here's the update:

While the Viper II will not support hardware transform and lighting when it ships this Friday, S3 representatives stressed today that it will support the feature in future driver releases. As it stands right now the chip has hardware T&L capabilities but they are not enabled by the current drivers.

Gee, driver issues with an S3 product? Go figure! Add to this the news on several websites that the Savage 2K's D3D drivers need serious improvement. I cannot imagine recommending that anyone get this card until the driver issues are sorted out. Methinks that S3 tried to bring this one to market too quickly before NVIDIA steamrolled them and before 3dfx could get its new cards out.

First the fillrate was lowered from 700 megatexels/second to 500, now the D3D drivers are bad and hardware T&L is disabled. Not good.

News for 11/20/1999

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