Reviving the Oak Tech. Warp 5.

[[EOCF] Tim]

Oak Technology Warp 5 - Metabyte Wicked 3D





Thanks to themaddman I've been able to test out the Oak Warp 5, and made two video's of it. Even for Beta drivers, it's still quite impressive.

It's a shame the camcorder doesn't do the Image quality any good, because it's actually really quite impressive if you ignore the texture anomalies experienced in some games. Final Reality runs beautifully with no problems, and scores a 1.99, can't remember what a Riva 128 did back in the day though.

I'm still on the hunt for a newer driver version, so I can perhaps do a bit of proper benchmarking, I got hold of an old version of Fraps (1.9D), which I'm told does support Win9x, so maybe I can do some comparison shots and numbers with a Voodoo and Riva 128, maybe even record a direct video, it will take some time though, I'm quite busy atm.


Make sure you press the "watch in HD quality" button, let me know what you think.


Final Reality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdIWTjEDhkk&feature=channel_page

Need for Speed III (bit of fun racing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iHQVUOelwA&feature=channel_page

 

[the maddman]

I'm glad to see it back up and running! Congrats on finding enough old gear that's compatible with it.

 

[[EOCF] Tim]

I'm glad to see it back up and running! Congrats on finding enough old gear that's compatible with it.

Thanks, yea it took a while to get a proper 430TX board, but this one does the job nicely!

 

[no-X]

Does the driver support FSAA?

 

[neliz]

Nice too finally see some footage of Oak's finest.

 

[the maddman]

Does the driver support FSAA?

Actually, AA is always on. Image quality on it, other than the texture artifacts, is amazing.

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=26889

That's my original thread, from the last time I tried to get the card working. Tim is doing a MUCH better job with it than I did!

 

[no-X]

Nice. I hope Tim will post some screenshots :smile:

 

[[EOCF] Tim]

Yep, I'm doing an IQ comparison atm between the various modes of the Warp 5. Now, I've just got to take this HD from the benchplatform, then copy the BMP's, en post back here.

Fraps seems to work so so, now and then it makes the black letterbox yellow, or the sky yellow, which is weird, needs DX8 for Directinput/hotkeys though, but running an fps log should perhaps work. Also I've got the distinct impression the fps counter lowers the frame rate here and there, strange.

 

[no-X]

Which manufacturing process does the chip use?

 

[[EOCF] Tim]

Menu Settings

 

[[EOCF] Tim]

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Please compare the following comparison pictures to the third picture above, which uses the default settings of the Warp 5.

 

[no-X]

The level of AA is simply brutal...

 

[[EOCF] Tim]

I'm not sure what happened, Beyond3D was down for me most of the day.

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[[EOCF] Tim]

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[[EOCF] Tim]

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[no-X]

Thank you. Very ilustrative.

 

[[EOCF] Tim]

No problem, it was quite a surprise to me how nice the AA was as well.

Puzzles me why Oak didn't continue with the product, it did have potential, maybe it just wasn't fast enough in light of the imminent Voodoo 2 launch, maybe it costed too much to be viable.

 

[no-X]

Maybe because ATi bought it?

 

[[EOCF] Tim]

Maybe because ATi bought it?

I think that was after Oak stopped the project though. I'm not sure.

 

[the maddman]

I think that was after Oak stopped the project though. I'm not sure.

I got the card about a year before Metabyte released the Voodoo2 based Wicked3d, and stopped getting updates after 6 months or so.... I was quite disappointed when they didn't send me a Voodoo2 to beta test too.

I'm pretty sure the chip was dead long before ATI picked up the technology from Oak.