ATi: ForSage driver v5.2 (2000/XP)
Sono online i nuovi driver modificati ForSage v5.2 (2000/XP) per schede video
ATi, un’alternativa ai ben più conosciuti Omega e DNA.
Features
* A Single Installation Package including only necessary Display Driver
and Integrated Control Panel components (optionally also ATI HydraVision)
* Small file size to download, achieved by removal of unnecessary components,
such as installers, WinME9x Driver/CP components and support files for 23 languages
other than English and Russian
* Corrected Russian translation for the drivers Control Panel
* Ability to install the drivers
o Using SmartGart (ATI’s tool for automatic testing and auto-setting the transfer
mode for the systems graphics bus)
o Without SmartGart (in order to avoid some problems that may arise on some
systems when installing ATI’s drivers with SmartGart
o Using one single Property Sheet ("3D") for setting up Direct3D/OpenGL
o Using separate Property Sheets
* Support for all possible software modifications
o Radeon > Radeon
o FireGL > Radeon (for 9500/9700/9800 and FireGL X1/Z1/X2)
o Special optimizations are used according to cards characteristics as amount
of video memory and graphics memory bus bandwidth
o Softmods for unlocking the hardware-locked rendering pipelines
o Overclocking AntiProtection for the cards for which overclocking is generally
locked (namely Radeon 9000, 9200, 9600, 9700 non-PRO, 9500 PRO) based on know-how
of Alexey Nikolaychuk (the author of RivaTuner Graphics System Tuning/Diagnostic
universal utility and the patch scripts Soft9x00 & ATI Overclocking Antiprotection)
* Experimental support for softmod of ATI’s 3×0 VPU series based VGA cards into
Radeon 9800XT (based upon Unwinder’s research). The patch script has been provided
by Bob Halton (Video Hardware Expert)
* Support for non-reference hardware frequency presets & other parameters,
allowed by ATI Overclocking AntiProtection and also forcing of device_id’s in
the MiniPort Driver
* Support of professional ATI’s FireGL Series Graphics Accelerators, allowing
to use game-optimized Catalyst Drivers
* Support of the 4-pipeline mode installation for the Radeon 9500/9800SE cards
with faulty extra pipelines generating visual artifacts
* Support for all ATI Mobility Series Radeon/FireGL chips
* Exact softmod/installation type description in the adapters identification
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