Canopus pure 3d ii driver

While it would have been more intelligent to place a Heatsink on the chip with a fan on top of that, Canopus chose to include a fan to help cool the chip which is prone to produce incredible amounts of heat, for a 3D Accelerator that is. The fan is powered by a 2-pin Power Supply connector on the Pure3D II board, and spins up to nothing more than a quiet purr during normal operation.

Canopus claims that it helps enable users to overclock their boards to MHz from the normal 93MHz Memory Clock of the Voodoo 2 chipset, however we have already proven that older cards, such as the Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Voodoo 2 , will make it up to MHz without the use of any cooling devices.

The fan is basically added security for overclockers, it is nice to know that Canopus had some insight to take the initiative to equip their Voodoo 2 board with some sort of active cooling. Another unique little addition Canopus made to the reference design called for a Green LED Light which illuminates when the board it operational. This feature is supposed to help diagnose problems with the card when troubleshooting, essentially telling you if the card is doing its duty or not.

However for the most part, it can be considered an extra 30 cents of difference between the Pure3D II and a Creative Labs Voodoo 2 card. For those of you that aren't familiar with the term, Scan Line Interleave, is a special operation mode the Voodoo 2 chipset supports allowing two Voodoo 2 boards to operate in a process similar to a parallel processing environment.

Entering your Display Properties Control Panel will reveal a new tab creatively named, Pure3D II, which allows you to select from and set the most popular tweaks for the Voodoo 2 chipset.

Post Your Comment Please log in or sign up to comment. Privacy Policy. Contact Us. Terms of Use. Show Full Site. All rights reserved. A friend of mine looked for some about a year ago I'll go ask him now in his office what he found. The Rage PRO is a decent enough card. And they do have drivers for it. Another vote for sticking with onboard. The Canopus Voodoo card has been obsolete for years now, and with no WinXP driver support, it's just an interesting doorstop now.

Thanks to All. Yep - I think I will take Gilgamesh advice and go buy lunch at Wendy's. It is great to learn the "history" of 3d video cards though. I dread when I will tell others that the Radeon is so old!

Wow, computers age so darn fast its sick! Again, Thanks. However, it will only see 4 MB and were flakey with things like hibernation and suspend mode. He was playing RTCW on his system with them and it worked. Laner, I probably did get hosed, that was the first system I bought had a before that but was my parent's and at the time Dell's were THE systems to get. Altec Lansing speakers with subwoofer , Matrox Millenium 2D card The Rage Pro is still supported because the chip was used in many, many servers and desktops that are perfectly capable of running XP and Windows Had lunch at Wendy's not kidding.

This has got to be better than the Canopus for DVD viewing and internet surfing! It should work for her. This card was the x pro back in the day. Expensive, beautiful, fast, and most of all, hard to get right away. My brother was up all night the evening before his came in back in '96 or whatever. And hey, the 12 meg VooDoo2 would be great for legacy gaming; any Glide-specific game would run amazingly well on there!

I cant believe the people saying not to buy it. MadMac is right, this is gaming history. If its still boxed, I would feel so happy about buying it. An interesting note.

I install XPsp2 and now XP says that it has 32 meg vram. Sp1 has no effect, it wasn't until sp2 that the vram changed. I don't know how or why but that's what it says. I can see the first time being a fluke or something but this has happened twice now on two different motherboards.