Diamond Stealth II S220 Rendition V2x00

The Stealth II's Software Bundle is a bit disappointing, considering it IS a gaming card, however that $99 pricetag had to be achieved somehow...

• Acclaim Entertainment's Forsaken^TM

• Electronic Arts Moto Racer^TM

• Sierra On-Line, Inc.'s Half Life-AVI

• Sierra On-Line, Inc's SODA Off Road Racing

• EIDOS Interactive's Terracide^TM

• Psyngosis, Ltd's Wipe Out XL^TM

• Diamond InControl Tools 95

Incompatibilities

• Some RRedline games may have problems locking the refresh rate setting of the Stealth II during gameplay and will result in a garbled or distorted display.  If this happens, you can obtain a patch from Rendition's site which will lock the refresh rate at 60Hz.

How I Tested

• Each benchmark was run 3 times, with the final result being an average of the three.  If any of the three test runs resulted in a failure the entire score was made void and the set of three tests was run again until a reliable set could be achieved or until the benchmark tests failed 3 times in a row.

• The FIC PA-2012 VP3 Based Socket-7 AGP Motherboard was used for all Socket-7 CPU tests and the AOpen AX6L LX Based Slot-1 AGP Motherboard was used for all the Pentium II tests.  Both test systems were configured identically with no differences other than the motherboard and processor.

• A full 400MB Quake 2 installation was performed, as well as a full installation of Winstone 97 and Winbench 98.  The CDROM drive present was an AOpen 24X.

• The Quake 2 Timedemo Frame rates were achieved by typing the following in the Quake 2 Console (hit the '~' key to activate):
                                  TIMEDEMO 1
                             DEMOMAP DEMOx.DM2

       Where x is the corresponding demo number (either 1 or 2) .  All Quake 2 tests were run at 640 x 480

• All other tests were run at 1024 x 768 x 16 bit color

• No foreign drivers were present in the test system other than those required for the system to function to the best of its ability

• All foreign installation files were moved to a separate partition during the test as to prevent them from effecting the test results

The Test

Test Configuration

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