Sun, 26 Nov 2000 Erwin Rol wrote:
[...]
> > I'm not a RealTime user myself, but this seems like the most sensible path
> > to me. After all, the goal of mainstream chip manufacturers is to increase
> > 'normal' performance, which normally does not involve low-level latency
> > measurements.
> Yes ofcourse, on the other hand there end up being more and more
> multimedia applications
> to that want low latency, like audio/video player software, and having
> latency upto 50msec
> will mess things up.
Yep... For pro audio applications, the most we can deal with is about 1 ms -
anything more and there's a drop-out.
> > Another point: I heard various things about the Virge/DX series chips being
> > incompatible with things like video-capture devices - perhaps this is
> > related to the latency problems, or is simply indicative of overall bad
> > design.
>
> Hmmm can you say "crap" :-) i know that the s3 card is a bad one, it was
> a temp
> solution until i buy a new one. But the problem with the G400 bothers me
> more, cause that
> "should" be a good card, and one of the few multihead cards.
It's good and brutally fast (especially considering that it's almost one
generation older than it's main competitors!), and it could potentially stress a
system in ways that slower cards cannot. Fast acelerators can be double edged
swords in some cases...
//David
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