heres the deal, I got a rebranded compUSA one on clearence, and it works great for what its intended. Video as expected sucks since this is the equivalent of an ISA/VLB video card. But, it displays everything not requiring Hardware acceleration fine, Flash animations show up with a couple skipped frames, scrolling is a little jumpy. Power users need not apply. But the computer handles the device as a regular video card, I tested this by yanking out my AGP card and setting my BIOS to boot on all errors. The USB card showed up at the User Login screen and worked from the get go. The hardware should be capable of Overlay support which would make watching movies possible but the driver needs to be updated to support it. I think this would be better if the driver supported more of the basic multimedia functions (like better direct draw and basic Direct 3D support) And the latest set of drivers allows 32 bit color past 1024x768. i give it a 6 out of 10
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heres the deal, I got a rebranded compUSA one on clearence, and it works great for what its intended. Video as expected sucks since this is the equivalent of an ISA/VLB video card. But, it displays everything not requiring Hardware acceleration fine, Flash animations show up with a couple skipped frames, scrolling is a little jumpy. Power users need not apply. But the computer handles the device as a regular video card, I tested this by yanking out my AGP card and setting my BIOS to boot on all errors. The USB card showed up at the User Login screen and worked from the get go. The hardware should be capable of Overlay support which would make watching movies possible but the driver needs to be updated to support it. I think this would be better if the driver supported more of the basic multimedia functions (like better direct draw and basic Direct 3D support) And the latest set of drivers allows 32 bit color past 1024x768. i give it a 6 out of 10