[an error occurred while processing this directive] April 2002 3Digest - STMicroelectronics/PowerVR KYRO 32 MBytes [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive]

April 2002 3Digest - STMicroelectronics/PowerVR KYRO 32 MBytes

By Andrew Worobyew

This chip is presented by Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT 32 MBytes, AGP videocard. [an error occurred while processing this directive][an error occurred while processing this directive]

Features:

Overclocking is impossible.

The release of KYRO, a new generation of the PowerVR chip, has illustrated another try to conquer the market with unusual processor architecture. We've written about tile architecture rather long ago. But the original price of KYRO couldn't make it competitor to NVIDIA GeForce2 MX, besides there were few manufacturers of these cards. But the product has been released and its price and perfomance make it a real competitor to NVIDIA GeForce2 MX, but it was late as the release of KYRO II with the same price and perfomance has almost killed the firstling.

For the 10th of April 2002 the latest drivers version from STM is 15.00.20 (only for Windows XP!). [an error occurred while processing this directive][an error occurred while processing this directive]

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The latest drivers are preferable due to fixed bugs and increased perfomance, but there's criticism about stability.

Still there are quality problems. I.e. No One Lives Forever has Z-buffer bugs: [an error occurred while processing this directive][an error occurred while processing this directive]

You can compare screenshots taken on KYRO with reference ones taken on NVIDIA GeForce3.

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Game list:

Real MYST doesn't run at all, crashing into OS.

Read more about this videocard in its review published on our site and in the review of all KYRO cards.

2D quality is perfect like that of NVIDIA GeForce2. 1600x1200 gives clear pictures, and 1280x1024x100 Hz is excellent. [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive]