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Offline matthey

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Re: RADEON 9250 128MB with mediator?
« on: March 23, 2013, 12:08:04 AM »
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He's using an 030 anyway and the Warp3D driver needs at least an 040 which is why I didn't mention it.

The original Avenger (Voodoo 3) Warp3D drivers require an 040 FPU. The ones I modified should work with the 030+FPU (MMU recommended and maybe required too) although they are for big box Amigas. The 1200 Mediator uses special drivers but I know someone with a 1200 Mediator was getting a speedup from my driver (had to be using it) with a certain configuration. The Warp3D.library and most other drivers only need an 020+FPU although the 68881/68882 FPU used with the 020/030 is very slow compared to the 040 and 060 FPU. It's still probably worthwhile speed wise though. Descent would probably be playable but Quake likely not. I never found anyone with an 030+FPU+3D to test though.

The Mediation Voodoo 3 driver is more stable than the Radeon Mediator driver. Some Radeon cards and hardware configurations seem to have problems. There is the OpenPCI driver from Ratte though too.
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Re: RADEON 9250 128MB with mediator?
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2013, 01:30:26 AM »
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I tried a modified avenger driver with my old Blizzard 1230 + FPU on my Mediator + Voodoo 3 but the games would not start.


It was Phillipe Bovier (mrodfr) that was using the modified drivers on a 1200 Mediator and was getting a speedup. I don't know for sure what settings and what he installed or renamed to get it to work. He was using MMU=YES and ThoR's Mu 68060.library though.