symmetric /mp glint 500tx drivers needed

[amcfreek]

suport for tdfx legacy companies no longer suported by nvidia s corparate cheepskates
need drivers to any stb card goodluck no websight
march of 97 a high end video card manufacturer <symmetric simulation systems>
was bought out by stb symmetric produced high end grafics cards for 3d rendering
in december of 1998 3dfx bought out none other then stb //big corparate merger
3dfx as you well know was bought by none other then nvidia , since then cutbacks
yeild p_sspoor tech suport and try no suport whatso ever for stb legacy products that dont include a 3dfx chipset
try and go to an stb websight none found or try emailing tech suport at 3dfx
better try youre elementary school first it might yeild better results!!!!!
i need drivers to the symmetric /mp dual glint 500 tx with glint delta
old technology at its finest original cost about 2500$ us

[Silverman]

Try the chipmakers websight as that will be your last best hope. Permedia Chipsets for instance was used alot by both STB and Diamond. Believe me, I know what you are going through.
Just did a quick search and sure enough your card is at http://www.3dlabs.com/support/drivers/GLINT_drivers.htm

[amcfreek]

been there done it did it no dice
the glint 500 tx generic driver will not work with this card , the primary video adapter on the card is not compatible with the glint 500 tx drivers from 3dlabs , its very simmilar to an elsa gloria-s but because the symmetric usedan avance logic 2064 primary display chip and the elsa an s3 and the lsa only used 1 glint processor,the symm mp used 2 you can see why it aint a happening , this setup was an early predescessor to the permedia 2
where the glint delta geometry coprocessor took the load off the grafix cpu and then i do beleive used the glint 500tx for the 3d overlays whats nice it has 2 of them , at 16 megs each and i do beleive 8 meg for the primary+delta, i can use avance logics generic driver but the rest of the cards in the back seat doin nothing and you end up with a 1 meg display adapter i did email tdfx
they only want to suport stb cards with tdfx chipsets , i also have an stb glyder 2 max that uses the permedia 2 chipset , they where used in ibm workstations so you gotta poke at there websight and fish which machine it came out of to download there drivers also compaq workstations have had a few stb cards in em
the 3dlabs drivers dont work with generic stb glyder 2 max boards , linux does suport it
funny results when trying to play games think my agp port not well suported yet , hey thanxz for the info

[Silverman]

The sad part about it is that card probably cost 2K or more just a few years ago.

[amcfreek]

try 2499 back in 97 right before stb bought em out and aperently to what ive read out preformed more expensive boards in its class
because it reduced pci bandwith and actually made the system run faster because it used 2
glint 500tx cpus one of the reasons stb bought the company so they could try and compete in the workstation medium high end 3d market it only fizzled for stb
sad but true <IMG SRC="smilies/tongue.gif" border="0">

[amcfreek]

try 2499 back in 97 right before stb bought em out and aperently to what ive read out preformed more expensive boards in its class
because it reduced pci bandwith and actually made the system run faster because it used 2
glint 500tx cpus one of the reasons stb bought the company so they could try and compete in the workstation medium high end 3d market it only fizzled for stb
sad but true <IMG SRC="smilies/tongue.gif" border="0">

[Silverman]

Thats what I kinda figured.