Based on the x86 application icon on your desktop... is this translating x86 to Alpha for the game, but native OpenGL calls? Impressive, thanks for documenting!
Thats right😂 my father dreamed of posessing an SGI Machine back then but it was to expensive and he bought an Pentium Pro Machine with Windows NT 4.0 for Workstations for his Video Editing Jobs. I remember as kid that it was blazing fast! But i also get mad because my other windows and dos games didnt work anymore 🤣😂
Here's a link to the owners manual of the 4DT rand of cards, sowing their memory options: www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/companies/item/download/1561_f4cb46f213c11c77f398f7fe64a3d394
I even tested DEC PowerStorm 4D50T in my test PC config. Just forced driver install as Intergraph RealiZm Z13-T and it worked. But with some desktop artefacts, i guess that DEC got cards with little bit slower clocks or memories as it has bit lower performance compared to Integraph. I buyed card because i needed texture memory modules for my RealiZm Z13 card. Looks like Dec sold models with texture memories and most Intergraph cards were sold without. They are compactible between brands, sadly not between new and older models, because they work in Realizm Z13, but are too slow for RealizmII card :-(, which rejects them...
Many people don't know it, but both AMD and INTEL both run and lease the Alpha Bus Design. AMD started leasing the 64-bit bus with the Athlon processors and Intel started with the 'Core i7'. The DEC Alpha Bus design has found it's way into consumer products.
The fact that AMD Slot/Socket A (K7 Athlon/Duron) use the DEC ALPHA EV6 CPU bus is or at least was general knowledge when the K7 CPU was released. It was one of the major selling points of the whole thing because it gave an edge to AMD not having to license Intels CPU bus and was much faster than the by then aging implementation of GTL of the Socket 7 platform. PPro, P2 and P3 use GTL+ which is competetive with the EV bus. Thing is, all Intel CPUs to this day use a variant of the GTL CPU bus, in 2008 AGTL+ highest frequency was 1.6Ghz All "i7" CPUs are a high end model part of the Core family of consumer market CPUs and they use exactly the same CPU bus and CPU socket as the their mid tier sisters i3/i5 and Pentium / Celeron branded entry level chips. Also, the only CPU to use the EV bus from AMD was the K7. The next generation, AMD64 (aka x64) K8, uses HyperTransport CPU bus interconnect, it's history goes back to DEC and was being developed for use in ALPHA systems, among others, AMD acquired the IP and the R&D staff developing it from the DEC bankcrupcy auction and it has been licensed by other manufacturers like IBM for use with PPC970 used in RS6000 and Apple G5 workstations. However, Intel has never used it.
What I'll do is make another video showing the card's performance across a range of resolutions, and capture the game more clearly. The 4D60's weak point is apparently not it's geometry performance, but its pixel fill rate! The interesting thing that I've noticed is that the frame rate doesn't actually drop that much when you run quake II @ 1024x768. (7.7FPS!) In the relatively near future, I'll look to acquire another card from that era which can apparently give you 30FPS in Quake II on one of these machines and compare it directly to this card!
@@Irinikus If you want to know exact numbers, you can try GPUbench and ofc also submit results, looks like 4D60 is missing in results pages..... swarm.cz/gpubench/
Lots of searching! By the way, there's currently one selling on eBay Germany, for an extremely good price: www.ebay.com/itm/324439677868?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
@@Irinikus Is it better? I just got a Personal Workstation but it has the 3D30 and i want to upgrade it to the best one that the system supports... or the best one that i can afford...
To be honest I don't know, but it's going to cost a fair amount of money for me to find out, so it's on the to do list for now. I'll definitely get around to it though! The PowerStorm 350 doesn't physically look nearly as impressive as this card does though, it's a full length single slot card.
@@Irinikus Yes, that's why i was asking... The one you have was very expensive and still is... You mentioned on a forum that you are going to get a geometry accelerator for this one so i am guessing it has no support for Alpha?
Unfortunately the Alpha Driver doesn't support the geometry card! So' I'll have to get a Pentium-type machine to test it using the Intense 3D Pro driver!
