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Diamond Monster 3D II

The Monster 3D II was Diamond's 3DFX Voodoo2 3D graphics accelerator card. The 8 MB of onboard memory was split into a 4 MB frame buffer for 2D and the rest to store textures for 3D.

Released 1998
Bus PCI
Chipset 3dfx Voodoo 2
Standards (none)
Memory 8 MB or 12 MB
Ports 15-pin DSUB (video passthrough)
15-pin DSUB (video out)
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Price At launch: $250
See Also  

It does not support triple-buffered mode, so double-buffering is all you can achieve. For GLide support, this is a good, but pricey, option.

 

Board Revisions

 

Competition

 

In the Media

 

Setting it Up

The Diamond Monster 3D II is a PnP card, so no hardware configuration is needed. For installation of drivers, please see the main 3dfx Voodoo2 page.

Downloads

Operation Manual
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Diamond Monster 3D II Drivers
v4.10.01.0207, 28th Aug 1999

Supports Windows 95/98. Requires DirectX 6.

DXDIAG will incorrectly report the version of this driver as 4.10.01.0205

 

 

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The Diamond Monster 3D II