Creative 3D Blaster Savage4 Reviews

Creative 3D Blaster Savage4 Graphic Card

Product Type: Creative graphic cards

Description:Model ID 2068511007 /

Newest Review: ... has a 300mhz savage processor (hence the name) This card can be tweaked in various ways;the software includes a program that ... more

 ... allows the colours on your monitor to be more accurately printed out.Also included is a piece of Gamma correction software which allows you to tweak the lighting effects within your games. The main control panel is pretty thorough, there is the option to "overclock" the memory and graphic card speed settings to squeeze the last drops of power out of this card.This is worth a try as the higher settings merely make white dots and flicker appear on the screen.When this happens you can take the settings down...more

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Customer Creative 3D Blaster Savage4 Reviews (6)

mrbibbly
Creative 3D Blaster Savage4: Unfairly Savaged... (374 words)
by - written on 20/02/01, updated on  20/02/01 (Very useful, 568 readings)
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I bought this graphics card a few weeks ago,from Dixons,in a clearance sale for £30.Having a rather old and cranky pc,I thought this might make a good difference to the performance. Having an old motherboard without an AGP slot designed for the newer boards,I had to resort to the PCI slot solution.I was immediately impressed by the 32 MB of memory on board and what a difference it has made to my general windows and game experience.It also has a 300mhz savage processor (hence the name) This card can be tweaked in various ways;the software includes a program that allows the colours on your monitor to be more accurately printed out.Also included is a piece ...  Read the complete review

cyrilthefish
slow and bad drivers! (175 words)
by - written on 09/11/00, updated on  09/11/00 (Very useful, 1435 readings)
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i've had the card since it was first released, and i didn't get it to work without crashing for the first 6 months untill i brought a new motherboard to go with it, so compatability 1/5 the drivers are completely useless, eg. very slow in direct 3d and unstable in openGL and don't even think about using the s3 metal driver in unreal tournament! creative also have only ever realeased 2 drivers updates, one after a month and the next didn't appear untill 13 months later. also the only tech support you get is an email sent back containing bios settings to try and change. so support 0/5 the card is also very slow compared to other savage ...  Read the complete review

CyrixDes
Creative 3D Blaster Savage4: Not a bad little performer (181 words)
by - written on 01/10/00, updated on  02/10/00 (Very useful, 480 readings)
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This card has taken a bit of stick along with its chipset, S3's Savage 4 but this is actually a very solid performing card particularly for its age and if you can find one will make the ideal replacement for that Voodoo 2 or Banshee with significant performance gains over these cards. Although the Creative version had dissappointing clock speeds at 110 MHz on the GPU in comparison with 125 MHz on Diamonds Stealth III also based on the Savage 4 chipset, this is a card worth considering if you have an older machine. A friend of mine (thepanther - Go and check his article out on the card) had one and used it on his K6-2 450 and played things like Quake 2, Half Life ...  Read the complete review

shep
Avoid at all costs! (348 words)
by - written on 03/08/00, updated on  03/08/00 (Very useful, 539 readings)
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This card is the worst piece of junk I've ever had the misfortune to install in a PC. On paper, the specs don't look too bad - it's an old card, but compared to others in it's price bracket it looks really good - it has a weighty 32 meg of RAM (which was still pretty rare when it first came out), 32 bit colour, and was the first card on the market to handle texture compression (even now, the likes of 3dfx + Riva are just catching up with this technology). True, it's frame rate was a bit duff compared to it's competitors, but the price difference more than made up for this... it looked like an excellent budget card. The fact that it's ...  Read the complete review

Technical Details for Creative 3D Blaster Savage4

Product DescriptionCreative 3D Blaster Savage4 - graphics adapter - Savage4 Pro - 32 MB
Device TypeGraphics adapter
Enclosure TypePlug-in card
Interface TypePCI
Graphics Processor / VendorS3 Savage4 Pro
2D/3D Graphics SupportS3 Savage4 Pro
Video Memory Installed ( Max )32 MB / 32 MB (max) - SDRAM
Video Output1920 x 1200 / 60 Hz - 24-bit (16.7 million colours)
Compliant StandardsPlug and Play
Package TypeRetail
System RequirementsMicrosoft Windows 95/98, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or later
Manufacturer Warranty3 years warranty