RADEON 9250 128MB with mediator?

[carvedeye]

Hi all ive just purchased an ati raceon 9250 pci with 128mb and i am wanting to know if this version can me added to the mediator?

[carvedeye]

It should be OK

Thats great my next question is....how do i use some of the video ram as fast ram?

[carvedeye]

The Sapphire version is working with my Mediators, A4000 & A1200.  It's a dual voltage card.

You need to update the Mediator Drivers from the Elbox Website to use the Radeon Ram, there should be readme files and documentation supplied with the drivers.

Thanks fitzsteve thats great to here, once i get the mediator (when amigakit gets them back in) i will give everyone an update when i have done it

[carvedeye]

I would imagine the Radeon's VRAM would not be particularly fast as general purpose Fast RAM. VRAM is slow to read from at the best of times and then you have the mediator itself in the middle.

I thought the main reason for using VRAM in this fashion was to allow DMA to/from other PCI devices?

Well i have an 030 accelerator w/64mb would this be enough to run a decent desktop with a reasonable resolution?