User guide

Welcome to 3Dlabs!
vi 3Dlabs Permedia3 Create! User’s Guide
Welcome to 3Dlabs!
Thank you for selecting a 3Dlabs
®
Permedia3 Create! graphics accelerator!
Whether you’re running hard core 3D applications or your favorite games,
Permedia3
®
Create! has the power you need to work fast all day and play hard all night.
Built on fifteen years of quality from 3Dlabs, Permedia3 Create! integrates advanced silicon
with quality drivers, delivering vibrant 32-bit color graphics at desktop resolutions up to 2048
x 1536. With Virtual Texturing for massive amounts of textures per scene and a Triple-blend
texture core for realism, you have the professional graphics platform that doesn’t forget how
you like to spend your play time.
Overview
Your Permedia3 Create! card has the following features:
•The Permedia
®
3 graphics processor
The Permedia3 graphics processor accelerates advanced rendering operations,
including single-cycle triple-blend multi-texturing and bump-mapping.
•Pentium
®
III and 3DNow! optimization
Permedia3 Create! is fully optimized for Pentium III and 3DNow! to maximize 3D
geometry and lighting performance.
• Virtual Texturing
Virtual Texturing is a hardware-based, full demand-paged virtual texture storage
sub-system. With it, your Permedia3 Create! card can cache up to 256MB of textures
stored in main system memory.
• 32 MB memory
32 MB of SDRAM memory supports high-precision, high-performance acceleration.
• High-precision, high resolution display
Permedia3 Create! has a 300 MHz RAMDAC enabling flicker-free resolutions up to
2048 x 1536.