ATI Video card question

[Walt Mather]

My daughter's computer has an ATI 3D Rage II + PCI card with 4mb. Unlike my
computers which also have ATI cards, her's doesn't seem to have any ATI
software where you can make changes or adjustments. When I check hardware
and try to update driver (Win XP Pro) windows says I already have the best
driver.

I'm trying to figure out what type of 3D support it has and if this card has
OpenGL capability.

Thanks,
Walt

 

[Jason Tsang]

You'd be lucky to be able to count how many generations back that the Rage
II is on one hand.

Based on info at ATI's site
(http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/winxp5125050r2.html)
Your card does not support OpenGL but it includes rudimentary DirectX 8.1
support.

I would highly recommend you get a much more modern video card. Even a $20
card nowadays would be highly superior to what you have now.

 

[Walt Mather]

Ok, the old Rage II card is going. I just picked up an ATI "Radeon 32MB
SDR" card. Now, keeping in mind that I'm a real idiot about these things
(I just want to enable my daughter to run TR-1 on her computer), will this
card work in Win XP with Glidos ?

This card is still in an unwrapped box but I think it came out before XP.
It says it has OpenGL support though but it doesn't list any XP drivers on
the box. Does XP most likely have it's own drivers already in the computer
that will support this card ?

I'd appreciate any advice I can get here.

Thanks,
Walt

 

[alanrc54]

Walt, there's a whole discussion in this newsgroup of problems with Radeon
cards when you are installing XP. Do a search on "Radeon" so I don't have to
re-type it. The good news is that the Radeon card you are discussing will
work fine under XP once you get past the installation hiccups.

Alan