Diamond stealth ii: Diamond Stealth II S220 Rendition V2x00

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Verite — A French word,
pronounced ‘Very-tae’, meaning ‘truth’

Rendition Verite 2100 — A chipset, the heart
of Diamond’s new low cost alternative to the 2D/3D Combo Card market, the Stealth II 3D.

If you walk into a store with $99 you expect
to get as much as you possibly can for that $99, right? Well, in the hardware world
it may seem as though $99 won’t carry you far…Diamond is here to disprove that belief,
armed with Rendition’s new Verite 2100 chipset and killer performance Diamond’s Stealth II
3D offers the most bang for your buck. The question is, how much of a bang does $99
pay for?

Video
Card Specifications

Interface:	PCI 2.1
Chipset:	Rendition Verite V2100
RAM:	4MB 100MHz SGRAM
Data Path:	128-bit
Horizontal Sync Signals:	31. 5KHz — 91KHz
Vertical Refresh:	43.5Hz — 120Hz
RAMDAC:	170MHz
TV Output:	No
Video Playback:	MPEG-1, Indeo, & Cinepak Supported
Supported Resolutions:	640 x 480 — 1600 x 1200
Supported Refresh Rates:	56 — 120 Hz

Oooh. ..how
«Stealthy»

It seems like half of the money spent on making the Stealth II 3D went to the packaging, classic of most Diamond Video Cards, the Stealth II is sold in a retail box about 4 times the size of the actual card, leaving much «breathing room» (who knows what all that space is for). Inside the box you’ll find the standard «exciting game sampler CD-ROM» which is nothing more than 6 or 7 shareware demos designed to make you think that you’re getting much more than what you paid for, a fairly standard marketing tactic that unfortunately just leads to a desk cluttered with cheap shareware CD’s. In addition to that CD is a compact tri-fold CD package containing the Stealth II Driver CD and Diamond’s classic 1-2-3 setup and troubleshooting guide. Although installing a video card is a very simple task many manufacturers decide to include bulky and intimidating user manuals that often get put away beneath tons of junk, Diamond, not being one of them, included a brief reference card as the «installation manual» for the Stealth II. A few diagrams would have been nice, but the quick installation guide packaged with the Stealth II will have to suffice, consider the card a 300 word document which basically says: «pick a slot, and stick the card in it.»

The first test system the Stealth II was used
on was an AOpen AX6L Pentium II — 300 system, upon the first reboot after installing the
card and its drivers (without removing the previous Millennium II drivers) the system
began to load the Windows 95 desktop immediately after which it switched the monitor into
suspend mode. A quick restart into safe mode confirmed that the problem wasn’t
because of a bad card, rather a refresh rate problem, setting the refresh rate in the
Display control panel to Adapter Default instead of Optimum corrected the anomaly and
allowed the system to boot properly.

Diamond’s InControl Tools 95 desktop utility
was installed by default, a nice little utility that allows the user to have easy access
to the Start Menu regardless of the position of the mouse pointer. A quick left
click of the mouse button on an open space of the desktop will activate the Start Menu at
that very position, making access to all of your programs even easier than before.
InControl also enables the option of switching resolutions/color depths on the fly, a
useful feature if you have several users (all with their own special viewing needs) using
the same workstation. Uninstalling the Stealth II is even easier than installing the
card, just un-install the drivers and remove the card, no hidden registry keys, no
possibilities of future hardware conflicts. Thank you Diamond.

Is that all you get with the Stealth II? A nifty desktop utility and some shareware games on a CD? Absolutely not! Based on Rendition’s Verite V2100 chipset, the Stealth II offers excellent OpenGL and Direct3D acceleration for the price of a small printer. While the 2D performance of the Stealth II isn’t superb, the 3D performance almost completely makes up for it. I have to admit, that originally the Stealth II appeared to be a horrid card due to the problems with the installation and the refresh rate settings, however the S220 and the Rendition V2100 chipset really have to «grow» on you. If you don’t mind dealing with a few headaches from the get-go, the Diamond Stealth II can really impress you. The 170MHz RAMDAC isn’t too appealing to high end users, but you must remember that the Stealth II isn’t targeted at the high end market. If you are looking for a powerful Pentium II system you are better off getting a Diamond Viper or FireGL card which will be better suited for your system, however if you are playing to the tune of a Socket-7 processor take a look at what the Stealth II can offer you for much less than either of those two cards.

Is Quake 2 your game? Using the Beta GL
drivers for the Verite chipset you can experience what some have called «Better than
Voodoo» graphics in Quake 2, however at the time the tests were run on the Stealth II
a Verite 1000 renderer was used which didn’t produce the high quality effects the BetaGL
drivers managed to achieve such as colored lighting, etc… In any case, the Stealth
II is a near-perfect match for any average desktop system looking for a cheap upgrade to
fast 3D acceleration. Since the Stealth II is a 2D/3D combo card many users may be
hesitant to upgrade to one if they are attached to their current 2D cards, in that case
cough up the extra $50 and purchase a 3Dfx Voodoo based Monster 3D which will offer the
same quality/performance of the Stealth II without the added 2D support…it all depends
on your needs. Direct3D games played quite smoothly on the Stealth II, JediKnight
was playable on even the Cyrix 6x86MX test system although the player’s screen did show
signs of a sub 30fps frame rate at higher resolutions.

Since the Stealth II is aimed at the low end
desktop market don’t expect your high end 3D rendering programs to simply fly on the card,
while they will benefit from the advanced 3D features of the Rendition Verite if you are
looking for a high end 3D card for a purpose other than gaming give the Creative Labs
Graphics Blaster EXXTREME a strong consideration.

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Diamonds new low cost card with the name ‘Stealth II’ is supposed to continue the successful days of the ‘Stealth Video’ 2 years ago, before it was replaced by the Matrox Millennium. The Stealth II is using Rendition’s Verite 2100 chip and it will only be available as PCI solution. It’s the cheapest of all the new Diamond display adapters, but that doesn’t mean that its performance is bad.

People, who can remember products with Rendition’s Verite 1000 chip, know that Rendition can offer a pretty good 3D engine. Although Direct3D wasn’t the strength of the Verite 1000, the special Verite 1000 portation of Quake, called VQuake, could show how powerful the Verite engine really was. The quality of the Verite 1000 was also quite high and certainly competitive to 3Dfx’s Voodoo.

The new Verite 2000 family from Rendition is still using the idea of the Verite 1000 and will deliver a lot of power to applicatins written for this engine, but the Direct3D performance of the new chip family has vastly improved. Even though the drivers of the Stealth II are still in its early stages, it can almost reach the Direct3D performance of the Diamond Monster3D in a Pentium II 300 system. However, used in a weaker socket 7 system, it shows that it’s the number two after the cards with NVidia’s RIVA 128 chip. This makes it very interesting for people that have only weaker systems and who don’t have a huge budget. The 3D quality of the Stealth II is very high, it even supports tri-linear texture filtering.

A look at the 2D performance of the Stealth II shows that business applications are not its strength, and NT users should certainly look at a different graphic card than the Stealth II. Under Windows 95 it’s not that much slower than the former standard card Matrox Millennium, which again shows that a gamer with a small budget may well be interested in this card.

The Stealth II is certainly not the right display adapter for high end freaks, because it’s 2D performance is too poor and the 3D performance is also not able to cut the custard. People who want to go for AGP solutions will also have to choose a different product. However, there’s quite a lot of people with Socket 7 systems out there, who want to play Direct3D games at a high visual quality for low cost. These people should have a close look at the Diamond Stealth II.

The Diamond Stealth II comes with 4 MB SGRAM and cannot be upgraded to more memory.

3D Image Quality

Motoracer: The Diamond Stealth looks fine in Motoracer, no complaints.

Final Reality: Almost perfect image, smooth cross, defined exhausts, but not cloud visible.

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