Creative 3D Blaster Savage4
slow and bad drivers! - Creative 3D Blaster Savage4 Graphic Card

Product Type: Creative graphic cards

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

slow and bad drivers!
Creative 3D Blaster Savage4

cyrilthefish

Member Name: cyrilthefish

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Creative 3D Blaster Savage4

Date: 09/11/00, updated on 09/11/00 (1435 review reads)

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Advantages: cheap

Disadvantages: slow, unstable, little support

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 4's, this is because the chip clock speed is 10% slower than every other manufacturer of savage 4 cards. don't think of ever running any game higher than 800x600 resolution at 16bit colour (even old games like quake2) so peformance 1/5

the only good thing about the card is that it is very cheap...

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