Okey, I did finally receive ATI Radeon 64mb VIVO card, which replaced older Diamond V770 TNT2.
CPU is Celeron 566@850, on Abit BE-6 MB.
At first I had troubles with drivers, since im using DX8 and I installed drivers first from a driver CD supplied with the card and windows desktop resolution went to some strange resolution and with 90hz, my monitor rejected it and was blank.
Obviously old drivers on the CD like I thought, but more surprisingly didn't support DX8 when those were probably written for DX7.
I had to boot up in safe mode, set monitor refresh rate to adapter default and after reboot (was 640x480 res with 16 or 256 bit colors
) install newest official drivers that I had luckily downloaded two days ago, so I didn't have to struggle to download those anymore.
After that, things were smooth.
Picture quality is better than with TNT2.
T&L also made lightning far better in B-17 II and some lightning changes in AH.
With TNT2 in tower was 43 FPS, with Radeon it is 75 FPS.
In 3D mark 2001, I had forgot normal clocks to CPU and FPS was just pathetic 16, then booted and set CPU at 850mhz and FPS got up to ~40 FPS. (wow, totally different than with TNT2, where it was around 19 FPS)
3D mark raised from 1234 pts to ~2400 pts.
In AH, with 2x FSAA, I got around 30 FPS and with 4x FSAA, below 25 FPS. (Hardly more)
Though, 2x FSAA seems fairly sufficient.
So far im happy with this, if forgets those driver struggles.
I find it funny that I didn't have problems between DX7/DX8 with different TNT2 driver versions, but Radeon has.
3D Mark comparison between ATI Radeon and TNT2 (Needs more tweaking with Radeon):
http://gamershq.madonion.com/products/orb/?publish_compare.shtml?&project_type=6&dprid=459463 [This message has been edited by Fishu (edited 03-22-2001).]
