20. Compatibility list

VEGA ZZ was successfully tested with the following operating systems:

Operating system Patch set Language VEGA ZZ
Windows 95* OSR 2.5 ITA 2.0.3
Windows 98 Second Edition ITA 2.0.3
Windows Millennium Edition - ITA 2.0.3
Windows NT 4 Workstation SP-6 ENG 2.0.3
Windows 2000 Professional SP-3 ENG 2.0.3
Windows 2000 Professional SP-4 ITA 2.0.7
Windows 2000 Professional SP-4 ENG 2.0.2
Windows 2000 Server SP-4 ENG 2.0.3
Windows XP Home SP-2 ITA 2.0.3
Windows XP Professional SP-2 ITA 2.0.7

* Windows 95 requires Windows Socket 2 Update. Pre OSR2 releases requires the OpenGL 1.1 library also.

Windows 3.11 and Windows NT 3.51 are unsupported.

 

VEGA ZZ was successfully tested with the following CPUs:

CPU VEGA ZZ
AMD Athlon 800 MHz (Slot A) 2.0.3
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1000 MHz 2.0.3
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1200 MHz 2.0.7
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 2.0.7
AMD Athlon MP 2200+ (2x) 2.0.7
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 2.0.7
AMD Sempron 64 2800+ 2.0.7
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2.0.7
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2.0.7
Intel Celeron D 2.66 GHz 2.0.3
Intel Pentium MMX 300 MHz 2.0.3
Intel Pentium II 400 MHz 2.0.5
Intel Pentium III 550 MHz 2.0.3
Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz 2.0.3
Intel Pentium IV 1.7 GHz 2.0.3
Intel Pentium IV 1.8 GHz 2.0.3
Intel Pentium IV 2.8 GHz 2.0.3

 

This is the list of the tested graphic cards. VEGA ZZ can work also with some untested cards.

Graphic card VEGA ZZ OpenGL

Anti-aliasing

Stereo Notes
ATI Radeon X1600 Pro 256 Mb PCIe 2.0.7 ATI 2-6x No Fast refresh not supported.
ATI Radeon X1600 Pro 256 Mb AGP 2.0.7 ATI 2-6x No Fast refresh not supported.
ATI Radeon X800 SE 256 Mb 2.0.7 ATI 2-6x No Fast refresh not supported.
ATI Radeon 9600 XT 256 Mb 2.0.7 ATI 2-6x No Fast refresh not supported.
ATI Radeon 9550 256 Mb 2.0.7 ATI 2-6x No Fast refresh not supported.
ATI FireGL X1 2.0.3 ATI   Yes Fast refresh not supported.
Intel Extreme Graphics 2 2.0.3 Intel      
Matrox Millennium G450 2.0.5 Matrox No No  
Matrox Millennium G550 2.0.7 Matrox No No  
Matrox Millennium P650 2.0.7 Matrox 16x** No  
Matrox Parhelia 128Mb 2.0.7 Matrox 16x** Yes  
Matrox Parhelia 128Mb 8x 2.0.7 Matrox 16x** Yes  
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 2.0.2 NVIDIA      
NVIDIA GeForce 5200 LE 2.0.3 NVIDIA 2-6x No  
S3 Trio 3D 2.0.3 Microsoft      
SiS 315 32 Mb* 2.0.7 SiS 2-16x No

No vector anti-aliasing, no hardware and software offline rendering, the multisample anti-aliasing is selectable from 2 to 16x but the result is always equivalent to 2x. When it's enabled, the bitmap fonts aren't visible: to fix it, set stroke or true type fonts.

SiS 650 2.0.3 SiS     No vector anti-aliasing.
SiS 661 FX 2.0.3 SiS     No vector anti-aliasing.
WMware Card 5.0 (Emulated) 2.0.3 Microsoft No No  

* It may not works with the standard OpenGL driver. If you have problems (e.g. VEGA ZZ crashes displaying big molecules, no alpha-bending, no anti-aliasing), use the included OpenGL Setup utility to set a more compatible OpenGL deriver.
** The 16x anti-aliasing can't be activated by VEGA ZZ and it can be enabled manually in the PowerDesk HF control panel.

The ATI graphics cards don't support the anti-aliasing when you use the hardware offline rendering.

Not recommended cards:

Graphic card Version Notes
VIA KM-400

2.0.3

Poor graphic card with slow performances and minimal OpenGL implementation (e.g. no line stipple). The cheapest graphic card on the market works better than it !

 

Chipset problems:

The nVidia Nforce 4 could lock the system running 3D applications as VEGA ZZ, when you installed ATI X1000  graphic cards. To fix the problem, you need a special ATI driver.

The VIA K8M800 has a poor AGP implementation and so some AGP 8x graphics card (e.g. Matrox P650 and ATI X1600 AGP) may hang the system when an OpenGL application is running. To solve the problem, disable the AGP Fast Write and reduce the AGP speed from 8x to 4x.

The VIA KT133 and KT133E chipsets are unable to complete the VEGA ZZ demo when the Matrox G550 is installed. It seems a problem with the OpenGL texture mapping and if you use VEGA ZZ normally, no problems are reported. The Matrox G550 works fine with other chipsets (e.g. VIA KM-400, VIA K8M800, Intel 440 BX, etc).

The VIA MVP3 with some graphics card has the AGP port working at 1x instead of 2x (e.g. Matrox Millennium G200).

 

Important note:
starting from the 1.5.0 release, the Intel OpenGL ICD driver trouble was resolved and so VEGA can work in true color resolutions  with 81x and 84x graphic chips.

Stereo hardware tested with VEGA ZZ:

Stereo device Graphic card VEGA ZZ
StereoGraphics CrystalEye 3 ATI FireGL X1

2.0.3

StereoGraphics CrystalEye 3 Matrox Parhelia 256 Mb 8x

2.0.3