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using a radeon 9800 pro on mac os 9

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supernova777:
thanks to diehard i have a second 9800 pro .. as u know it works in sawtooth machine
without taping pins.. im not sure if its a pc flashed card or an original mac card.. it doesnt say anything about being mac edition on the sticker but it works

so my neighbour was about to recycle a g4 400mhz sawtooth.. i just grabbed it to test a bunch of hardware without rippijng apart my other ssystems.

i was hoping it might have a dvd-ram drive but nope..


im just doing a restore of mac os 9 with the original sawtooth restore disk now.
but the radeon boots fine with no hard drive installed off the stock restore disk
and i will see how it functions compared to the 9200 LE PCI on this g4 400mhz

maybe i can do a benchmark

supernova777:
well i just installed and i can say its quite speedy... ;) and working 100% in mac os 9..

the extensions for ati are all installed + enabled.. so it must be working with the ati extensions



--- Quote ---i can count 6 ati extensions installed + switched on
ati 3d accellerator
ati driver update
ati graphics accelerator
ati mpp manager
ati rage 128 3d accelerator
ati resource manager
--- End quote ---

i can also notice that there is not one nvidia extension present at all..
because this model never shipped with one?? and its the exact disk for the machine that it shipped with (ssw version 9.0.2 691-2500-a)

airport card is installed + workng aswell;)
so this leads me to ask.. Mactron?? why did u think the radeon 9800 pro would not work with mac os 9???? it works!!!!!!!! and its fast as hell

im also able to change resolutions to all supported resolutions!!!!!!!
up to 1600x1024 60hz (im using a 3:4 aspect ratio 1280 x 1024  monitor atm..)

i think there is a chance its not using 2d acclleration specifically but the performance of this card is so much greater that it really doesnt make a difference.. im scrolling pages in ie5 and its very fast

ok when dragging hte ie5 window to a new location i do see the "roll up" non accelleration type refresh so yes it is defintaely not using accelleration

devils_advisor:
there is no official 3d support with this card but it is known to work. and no you wont be able to enable 3d acceleration in os9.

supernova777:
it works but dragging windows to new locations results in a .5 second roll up refresh of the window...... so i guess mactron was right this is not desirable by most users standards.

i just swapped out the card for a pci radeon 9200 and its doing the same refresh...
i must need to install driver update for 9200 support

devils_advisor:
wait a second. is that the xt card ? i just checked that card is a no go under os9 because it was used for anything above a g4.

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