ATI Rage Fury Pro (Rage 128 Pro)

ATI's Multimedia Center is the software front end that controls the Rage Fury Pro. All of its modules are controlled by a single task bar that can be moved around the screen or disabled completely. The basics include the ATI DVD Player and the Audio/Video CD players which are all modules that resemble one another so there is very little confusion when going from one player to the next.

The ATI TV module allows you to use the composite input to display your TV signal on your computer. And like previous ATI cards with video input support, you can set your desktop background to the signal coming in from the composite input. It's a very neat feature if you want to have something distracting on your desktop while you work ;)

ATI's Video Editing module offers the fewest options for video editing software that we've ever seen. It is even worse than the Marvel's bundled software. On the plus side, however, it is easy to use -- click on an entry point, an exit point and the edit is virtually complete. It's good for the beginner, but don't plan on using it for any serious video editing, because the Rage Fury Pro is not designed for that in the first place.

The Rage Fury Pro board will be shipping with demo versions of Expendable, Half Life and Moto Racer 2 full version.   The video drivers themselves could have been improved quite a bit, but luckily there were no compatability problems and the drivers functioned.  The 16-bit dithering problem under OpenGL seemed to disappear with the Rage Fury Pro's drivers.   The driver utility itself provided for an option to manually select the Z-buffer depth, which can be a useful performance enhancing feature.