Preview: S3 Graphics DeltaChrome S8 Nitro
by Derek Wilson on March 9, 2004 3:44 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Unreal Tournament 2003 Performance
The Unreal Engine powers a few games out there, and its a good idea to be able to run them well. This game looked pretty good without any antialiasing or anisotropic filtering enabled. Here we see the DeltaChrome S8 Nitro do the best it has done (and will do) in these tests, coming in above all the other midrange and budget cards.
When we enabled AA and AF, we noticed that, along with a larger relative drop in performance than NVIDIA and ATI, the 2D text above each player had some clarity issues. This will probably be one of those issues that gets worked out as the final driver version approaches, and fixing it will most likely also mean improving performance a bit.
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cliffa3 - Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - link
noone read over this one before posting...page 1 - companies can surive...survive
page 3 - addes screen height,...added
page 10 - This game is definitely one of the hot games to make sure are stable and running smoothly.
not sure what needs to be done w/the one on page 10...i didn't even read the whole article, i just caught those in skimming.
shady06 - Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - link
wow, another POSjoeld - Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - link
Notice how the card rocked in UT2003 but nothing else - reminds me of the diamond viper 2 (savage2000 core from s3) that I had back in the day - driver optimized for Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 and nothing else...araczynski - Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - link
...err "but that" rather then "back that"...araczynski - Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - link
didn't notice the card was from S3 :) back that only reaffirms my original though, they'll stay int he on-board market, where they've done well in the recent past, i'm guessing this solution is an attempt at rising to the mid-upper performance tier in on-board solutions.JAGedlion - Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - link
I hope they put this in their mini-itx mobos, it would increase their funcionality many times folddrteserect - Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - link
Having owned both a Virge and Savage 8 motherboards, I realize that S3 has not always been a startup, but it has been out of the competitive fray for so long it is essentially a startup. My suggestion also applies the company that is behind the Volari.Idoxash - Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - link
"The only hope I see for a new graphics chip company would be to set up an open source environment for their driver software. The development leads of ATI and NVidia are immense, but possibly the collective genuis of people who like to play with such tasks would give a startup some sort of chance."You say this like S3 is a new starup company? If that's the case you are very wrong. S3 is very old and has been making gfx chips for many, many years. If I misunderstood wut you sed then I'm sorry.
In either way they should open up their drivers. That probly help them out a lot because they had plenty of time to tweak and fix their drivers before this release and the drivers are still crap over.
--Idoxash
drteserect - Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - link
The only hope I see for a new graphics chip company would be to set up an open source environment for their driver software. The development leads of ATI and NVidia are immense, but possibly the collective genuis of people who like to play with such tasks would give a startup some sort of chance.araczynski - Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - link
agreed, too little too late, perhaps the "on-board" market will have more room for these guys...