[HM] Re: 3D Hardware acceleration - ATI Rage Pro

[David Crandon]

That means you don't have a "brandname" card. The first ATI Rage Pro had
8megs of VRAM I believe. But this is a bare minimum. 

Go to the great website http://www.xlr8yourmac.com for more answers.

David Crandon

James Baumann wrote:
> 
> My System Profiler said nothing specific about what type of video card I
> have -- only that I have 2MB of memory.
> 
> Doing an eBay search for "ATI Rage Pro" gave me a bunch of different
> options.  Some of them as low as $5.
> 
> When I modified the search to be ATI Rage Pro Mac" I only came up with two
> options.  So, my question now is, is there a difference between an ATI Rage
> Pro video card for a PC vs. one for a Mac?
> 
> james
> 
> >In the past, Macs didn't come with a specific aftermarket/OEM video
> >card. Sometime around the introduction of the G3, they started to come
> >with video cards from other manufactures such as ATI or nVidia. One of
> >the first was the ATI Rage. To see if you actually have the card itself,
> >run Apple System Profiler and it should tell you in there.
> >
> >Even if you do have the card, the speed you are getting sounds about
> >right for how old and slow your Mac is (no offence intended). I'd say to
> >get the game running faster, you need a faster card and/or computer.
> >
> >You can get much faster cards on ebay for less than $100.
> >
> >David
> 
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