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

[David Crandon]

Well, although you have those ext., the box is talking about actually
having the ATI RagePro video card itself.

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

John McGibney wrote:
> 
> on 12/27/02 8:09 AM, Home Macintosh Users List at
> HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com wrote:
> > I'm assuming there will be a number of questions like this right after the
> > holidays --
> >
> > My son (I swear, my son) received the Tony Hawk skateboard game.  It runs on
> > my Power Macintosh G3 (OS 9.1) but realllllllly sloooooooooowly.  I've
> > allocated loads of RAM to it with no difference.
> >
> > Now, the problem just might be the 266 MHz processor (233 MHz is the minimum
> > requirement).  But the requirements also ask for ATI Rage Pro or better for
> > the Hardware 3D acceleration.
> >
> > A Sherlock search shows I have the ATI 3D accelerator as well as the ATI
> > Radeon 3D Accelerator and ATI Rage 128 3D Accelerator all tucked away in my
> > Extensions folder.  Are these the same at ATI Rage Pro?  How do I know which
> > is better?  And how do I go out and find this?  Is this actually a video
> > card I need to invest in?
> >
> > Thanks for the help, in advance.  Shred on gnarly dudes!!!!
> >
> >
> > james
> did youdownload and install the ATI update? This speeds up the screenredraws
> somewhat. Also see if you can set the screen to "thousands of colors" as
> opposed to millions. In Tony Hawk try setting the video options to 640 x 480
> and poorest quality video options as possible. The simpler the graphics the
> faster the redraws.
> 
> HTH
> John
> 
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