S3 Trio3D/2X (3DMark99Max / Final Reality / XLR8R / Unreal)
61S3 Trio3D/2X at 105 MHz in
3DMark99Max Demo, in the last scenes the screen stays black...
Final Reality, music playback gets distorted a bit
XLR8R, just graphical glitches
and finally some Unreal D3D footage on this S3 Virge core that shows that it is indeed playable.
CPU is Slot A Athlon 500 MHz on an AMD Irongate.
The card: http://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_s3_trio3d2x.html
This solution was advertised like this:
S3's Trio3D accelerator delivers:
Industry Leading 2D Graphics Acceleration
Designed to meet the needs of tomorrow's productivity applications, S3's Trio3D features a newly developed 2D graphics engine that delivers the highest level of 2D graphics performance available for the mainstream PC market. Key features of the Trio3D's 2D engine include a 128-bit pipelined architecture, support for 100MHz SGRAM memory and S3's Burst Command Interface - a proprietary protocol technology that works in conjunction with either the PCI or AGP bus to increase the command and data efficiency of the Trio3D architecture.
Advanced Video Capabilities
With features such as high quality video manipulation (blending/stretching/scaling) and the ability to simultaneously accelerate dual video windows, S3's Trio3D provides an optimal hardware platform for the emergence of advanced video conferencing and video training applications on mainstream business PCs. Additionally, the Trio3D is the first accelerator to fully implement the industry standard Video Interface Port (VIP) bus allowing for a low-cost, easy-to-implement interface to third party multimedia peripherals such as video cameras, TV-tuners and DVD/MPEG-2 decoders.
"Business-Ready" 3D Graphics
Trio3D's "business-ready" 3D feature set delivers the right mix of 3D performance and quality needed for emerging mainstream 3D productivity applications. Based on S3's widely adopted S3d architecture, the Trio3D's rendering features include MIP mapping, tri-linear filtering and perspective correction of textures to deliver images that are free of visual artifacts such as "sparkle" and "jaggies." Other features include transparency for enabling realistic rendering of glass, water and plastic objects; depth cueing to enable the rendering of real-world environments; and Z-buffering to speed the removal of hidden surfaces for improved performance and visual quality. S3's Trio3D also provides support for Intel's Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) standard to enable higher levels of visual realism while helping to contain solution costs for memory intensive 3D applications.