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New Graphics Company, With Working Cards

Posted by timothy on from the clever-of-them-to-have-actual-cards dept.

gladbach writes "Toms Hardware has in their hands an actual working card, unlike other vaporware cardmakers *cough* bitboys *cough*... To quote Toms: 'A new player dares enters the graphics card market that ATi and Nvidia have dominated for so long. XGI (eXtreme Graphics Innovation), based in Taiwan of course, comes at the market leaders with a line of cards for a whole lot less money. We look at XGI's product range, and offer results of a beta model from XGIs top model Volari Duo V8 Ultra.'"

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  1. XGI = SIS + Trident by Ark42 · · Score: 0, Troll


    Oh boy, prepare for slow, buggy drivers, hardware incompatibilities, and games that will just won't support the card anyways.

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    Morphing Software
    1. Re:XGI = SIS + Trident by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      I've ran a repair shop that was created as some sort of outsorcing thing for the companie i am currently working at. The ati cards drivers have been the culperate behind alot of the driver related repairs we had to cope with. The newer drivers within the last year were never an issue but the 8700, rage, all in wonder from before that always needed a special driver patch/version for the l atest games.

      i was told that this is because the games customize the graphics end for the specific video cards. This lead me to wonder what the hell direct x is all about and why they are still writing games and drivers that claim to be directx compatible.

      Although you and other s havn't found preoblems, there are plenty of others that do. Enough problems and bugs exist that there was even an official responce claiming the problems were due to optimizations the game/app was using.