Got Radeon 64 VIVO, Update: OpenGL or D3D ??

[BigLance]

Update: Need to know which is better on my new Card: OpenGL or D3D ? mostly for UT and Q3A etc. Thanks.
Thanks for answering my other questions....



Well, this card really fricken screams, but I have a few questions

What should I use, Direct3D or OpenGL, D3D runs UT at 1280x1024 32BIT perfectly but I was wondering if GL is better by any chance ??

Also, the drivers says its Radeon w/ DDR memory but when I use the ATI Adapter INFO tool it reports 64MB SDram, is this little program stupid or do they make a SDR 64MB OEM card ? I better have DDR or its going back Please help me here !!!

And one last question- How do I strat the Video In ? There is nothing under display etc. No enable VI, just Video out ? What is the deal, this card has the hardware part, know that for sure !!! I am lost here, do I have to download some extra drivers, didn't see anything on the CD.

Well, hopefully I got the DDR card but whether or Not I did it is one fast ass card ! Puts my Rage Fury to shame bigtime !!

Thanks for reading/ helping me !

 

[Workin']

Don't know about your RAM question, but...

To do video in just start the video in application that should have been installed with the Multimedia Center that should have come with your card.

 

[BigLance]

Well, dont worry about the DDR thing, now it is saying I have DDR ram after I installed the latest drivers... cool !

Hmm, Multimedia Center ? Uhh oh, I might have missed installing something but I don't have Multimedia Center

What should I do ?

 

[MasterMind]

It is DDR ram but it is shown as SDR. Something about the drivers... :Q

A site did a review with pics of the RAM and it's the same as what was used on a GeForce DDR.

The multimedia center can be installed after the drivers. Click on the ATI icon in the taskbar to see if it is installed.

 

[Comp10]

Put back in the installation CD and selection easy install, then when given the option select custom installation. You should then be able to select all the multimedie center options, so put a check by the boxs of the applications you want to install then continue with the installation. That should install the multimedie center if it isn't already, then just go to start, programs, ATI multimedia center, then video in.

 

[jpprod]

DDR memory is SDRAM.

SDRAM = Syncronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
DDR = Double Data Rate

They're not mutually exclusive. Traditional SDRAM is sometimes called Single Data Rate (SDR) memory.

 

[BigLance]

I uderstand that DDR and SDR are both SDRAM but it showed SDR first, now DDR with the new drivers, thanks though...

Ok, this is what happened: The first time I installed the drivers it crashed after I got the Display drivers on and I didn't know it at the time. I went back and this time it didn't crash so I got to run through and actually install the Multi. Center. Thanks for telling me...

Everything works great now....