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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: uncleted on September 19, 2006, 07:27:51 PM

Title: Advantage to Voodoo 4/5 with Mediator?
Post by: uncleted on September 19, 2006, 07:27:51 PM

I have an Amiga 4000 with a mediator board set to arrive soon.

I'm looking at getting a Voodoo card, however given what I've seen on forums, there's apparently little advantage in getting anything more than a Voodoo 3 card.

Can anyone with experience let me know whether it's worth buying anything better than a Voodoo 3 to use with a Mediator board?

Title: Re: Advantage to Voodoo 4/5 with Mediator?
Post by: amigakit on September 19, 2006, 07:31:12 PM

The Voodoo 4/5 have more memory - although be aware that only 32 of the 64MB can be used on the Voodoo 5500.  The DVI port also is not active on the Mac Voodoo 5500 and it will require a reflash to a PC BIOS.

Title: Re: Advantage to Voodoo 4/5 with Mediator?
Post by: quenthal on September 19, 2006, 07:32:54 PM

More memory and some screenmodes not available with Voodoo3. Nothing major though.

(Last year I was wondering about this same issue. Since Voodoo3 can show accelerated graphics only in <=16bit I thought I could get around this by using Voodoo4/5. I felt that major limitation was that I couldn't run Warp3D-demos/games in window in 32bit screen/workbench. However, as it turned out Warp3D for classics also have same limitations, so switching to Voodoo4/5 wouldn't release me from these limitations)

Title: Re: Advantage to Voodoo 4/5 with Mediator?
Post by: uncleted on September 19, 2006, 07:39:28 PM

Great, thanks for the info guys!

Title: Re: Advantage to Voodoo 4/5 with Mediator?
Post by: SuperTurbo on September 19, 2006, 07:42:24 PM

yeah, using warp3D om os3.9 only deccelerate the graphics rather then accelerating it.