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Velocity9x
ATI Rage IIC driver for Windows 98 - Velocity Drivers

AMD / ATI · ATI Rage II

ATI Rage IIC

Velocity9x: Verified working

A Rage II-class chip whose 3D engine needs its triangle setup done on the CPU. Velocity9x runs Direct3D, OpenGL, Glide 2 and 3 and 3DCIF on it, and all eight ATI SDK 4.1 demos draw.

Specification
Manufacturer
AMD / ATI
Chip
Rage II class
Family
ATI Rage II
3D engine
Rage II, triangle setup on the CPU
Bus
AGP
Velocity9x · Windows 98 SEVerified working

Package

ati

Tested on

One Pentium III machine.

Acceleration by interface

2D / DirectDraw
No
Direct3D
Tested
Direct3D 8
Not run
OpenGL
Tested
Two texture units
No
Glide
Tested
ATI 3DCIF
Tested

What has been tested

Rage IIC AGP: Direct3D, OpenGL, Glide 2 and 3, 3DCIF. Half-Life 5.57 fps against ATI’s own driver’s 6.63 on the same machine.

Tested games and benchmarks

TitleAPIResultVersion
Quake IIOpenGL4.4 fps0.10.0
Half-LifeDirect3D5.57 fps (ATI’s driver 6.63)0.10.0
Diablo IIGlideShareware demo, to the town—
3DMark 99 MaxDirect3DRuns—
Half-Life on ATI Rage IICfps
  1. ATI Rage IIC
    Pentium III · 640x480 · v0.10.0
    5.57 fps
    vendor 6.63
    Test setup and source
    Machine / CPU
    Pentium III
    Resolution
    640x480
    Driver version
    0.10.0

    Not recorded: cpu speed, colour depth, display mode, game / benchmark version, settings, test date, vendor driver version.

    Source: Velocity9x README: tested frame rates

Not a like-for-like comparison: machines and driver versions differ. Amber marker: the vendor’s own driver on the same machine.

Quake II on ATI Rage IICfps
  1. ATI Rage IIC
    Pentium III · 640x480 · v0.10.0
    4.4 fps
    Test setup and source
    Machine / CPU
    Pentium III
    Resolution
    640x480
    Driver version
    0.10.0

    Not recorded: cpu speed, colour depth, display mode, game / benchmark version, settings, test date.

    Source: Velocity9x README: tested frame rates

Not a like-for-like comparison: machines and driver versions differ.

Install on Windows 98

  1. Take a cold backup and confirm you can reach Safe Mode.
  2. Download the ati package(ATI Mach64 / Rage and AMD Radeon).
  3. Device Manager → Display adapters → Update Driver → Have Disk, over the top of the current driver.
  4. Shut down fully, then cold-start once.

Download velocity9x-0.48.0-ati.zipFull install guide