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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Otherwise it was technically identical to the original Monster Sound.
The Sonic Impact was the value-oriented sound card line from Diamond. In SLI, a pair of Voodoo2 boards splits the effort of rendering the 3D scene between alternating raster lines, allowing performance to be nearly doubled.
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Is Quake 2 your game? It seems stalth half of the money spent on making the Stealth II s20 went to the packaging, classic of most Diamond Video Cards, the Stealth II is sold in a retail box about 4 times the size of the actual card, leaving much "breathing room" who knows what all that space is for. Articles needing additional references from May All articles needing additional references Pages using deprecated image syntax All articles muptimedia unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from July Commons category link from Wikidata Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia.
This chip was rather slow and basic. Retrieved from " https: Initially the Stealth line was Diamond's high-end brand but transitioned to midrange after the Viper line was introduced. Diamond Multimedia is an American company that specializes in many forms of multimedia technology. Diamond is here to disprove that belief, armed with Rendition's new Verite chipset and killer performance Diamond's Stealth II 3D offers the most bang for your buck.
Index Features The Test. If you are looking for a powerful Pentium II system you are better off getting a Diamond Viper or FireGL card which will be better suited for your system, however if you are playing to the tune of a Socket-7 processor take a look at what the Stealth II can offer you for much less than either of those two cards. Is that all you get with the Stealth II?
When the 3D engine was called into use, the 3dfx-based card would disconnect the 2D pass-through signal and begin driving the display directly. A few diagrams would have been nice, but the quick installation guide packaged with the Stealth II will have to suffice, consider the card a word document which basically says: InDiamond was acquired by S3 Graphics and became primarily a supplier of products based upon their graphics accelerator chips.
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A special BIOS patch was released by Diamond for the Stealth II S which brought its clock speed up to the same level as the high-end Verite V chip, resulting in equal performance at a significantly lower price.
This card connected to the VGA card with an external passthrough cable, a 3. They are a slightly newer product with the 'Navigator' player software having a cleaner user interface. Diamond Viper Resource Pageaccessed March The drivers and player software for these are not compatible with the DVD and It was a substantial step forward in gaming audio, with impressive 3D audio positioning and other effects.
The Viper line was Diamond's high-end offering.
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In any case, the Stealth II is a near-perfect match for any average desktop system looking for a cheap upgrade to fast 3D acceleration. Unfortunately the chip itself was not fully functional and the drivers were very buggy. The Monster3D line was based on 3dfx Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2 chips which did not contain a 2D engine, requiring a separate VGA card connected externally using a pass-through cable.
Windows 98 or 98SE is not recommended due to problems that syealth happen with video color and alignment.
It utilized the then state-of-the-art Aureal A3D 2. The company was the defendant in a significant copyright case for its Rio digital music playerwhich the Recording Industry Association of America claimed infringed copyrights; the Ninth Circuit deemed it to be a fair usehowever, in RIAA v.
They have produced graphics cardsmotherboardsmodemssound cards and MP3 playershowever the company began with the production of the TrackStar, a PC add-on card which emulated Apple II computers.
For GUI environments such multimediq Windows, the Viper cards used a Weitek graphics co-processor which accelerated many drawing functions and performed very well for its time.
Although installing a video card is a very simple task many manufacturers decide to include s20 and intimidating user manuals that often get put away beneath tons of junk, Diamond, not being one of them, included a brief reference card as the "installation manual" for the Stealth II. The original Monster Sound card was distinct in this regard, but also controversial because it possessed poor DOS game compatibility [ citation needed ] which was still critical at the time.
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