demik
Well-known member
Hello,
I had this PCI card lying around because I couldn't get IXMicro drivers to work and enable acceleration. Someone suggested to me that this card came from a dead 9500 or 9600, and that I should try Apple drivers.
For reference, we are talking about this card:
This card now runs in my 6400/200 with 256k cache without issues, so I can heave something better than the weak onboard Valkyrie. After extracting the required CDEVs from a MacOS installer, a reboot later, QuickDraw acceleration was working fine.
If you want to do the same, you need the "9600 Graphics Accelerator" and "IX3D Graphics Accelerator" just to be sure. Supposedly, they are included within 9.1 but it didn't seem to work for me. I'm running 8.6 with the above CDEVs right now.
There is very noticeable difference in UI responsiveness with acceleration enabled. Scrolling is smoother, general display is way faster, altho I didn't notice much improvement in video/pictures/games.
Time for benchmark !
Please read 6200/200 as 6400/200 because I was drunk. TT128 OFF means without acceleration, TT128 ON means with acceleration.
Pretty happy so fat ! If you see one of theses around, they will improve graphics performance nicely on any 601/603/604 Mac.
P.S. ROM was dumped, just in case someone need it, send me a message…
I had this PCI card lying around because I couldn't get IXMicro drivers to work and enable acceleration. Someone suggested to me that this card came from a dead 9500 or 9600, and that I should try Apple drivers.
For reference, we are talking about this card:
This card now runs in my 6400/200 with 256k cache without issues, so I can heave something better than the weak onboard Valkyrie. After extracting the required CDEVs from a MacOS installer, a reboot later, QuickDraw acceleration was working fine.
If you want to do the same, you need the "9600 Graphics Accelerator" and "IX3D Graphics Accelerator" just to be sure. Supposedly, they are included within 9.1 but it didn't seem to work for me. I'm running 8.6 with the above CDEVs right now.
There is very noticeable difference in UI responsiveness with acceleration enabled. Scrolling is smoother, general display is way faster, altho I didn't notice much improvement in video/pictures/games.
Time for benchmark !
Please read 6200/200 as 6400/200 because I was drunk. TT128 OFF means without acceleration, TT128 ON means with acceleration.
Pretty happy so fat ! If you see one of theses around, they will improve graphics performance nicely on any 601/603/604 Mac.
P.S. ROM was dumped, just in case someone need it, send me a message…