DOS Days

ELSA Victory3D

ELSA's second gaming graphics card for the PC was the Victory 3D, launched in 1996.

Released 1996
Bus PCI
Chipset S3 ViRGE (86C325)
Standards VGA
Memory 2 or 4 MB EDO DRAM (64-bit)
RAMDAC (Embedded, 135 MHz)
Ports 15-pin DSUB (analogue RGB video out)
Part # -
FCC IDs KJGVICTORY3D
Price At launch: $
See Also  

The Victory3D was a low-end gaming graphics accelerator card. It was based on the S3 ViRGE chip (86C325) having a core clock of between 50 and 80 MHz with memory also running the same.

With 4 MB of RAM, the Victory3D could support resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 in 256 colours at a refresh rate of 75 Hz, or in 16 colours at a refresh rate of 85 Hz. At 1024 x 768 it ran 16.7 million colours at 75 Hz or 65,536 colours at 85 Hz.

 

Board Revisions

No information on board revisions is known for the ELSA Victory3D.

Some Victory 3D versions have memory slots for the rightmost four, others do not (perhaps OEM variants).

 

Competition

 

In the Media

 

Setting it Up

I have no information on setting up the Victory3D card.


Downloads

ELSA produced the WINMan Suite of tools for Windows 3.1, for the Winner, Victory, and GLoria cards. This allowed you to define new resolutions, set monitor
refresh rates, change the screen position and adjust the monitor timing, get information about your graphics card, set DirectX settings, and find out the current refresh and horizontal scan
rates.

These were replaced with the ELSA Windows Tools for Windows 9x.

Operation Manual
(missing)

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VGA BIOS ROM
v3.00.00 (missing)

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VGA BIOS ROM
v3.05.00 (missing)

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DOS Utilities
23 Oct 1997

DOS utilities include: Snoop and XRefresh

Windows 3.1 Drivers
v5.39, 26 Jun 1997

Windows 3.1 display drivers for Victory3D

Windows 95 Drivers
v4.03.2115-0016, 15 Jul 1997

Windows 95 display drivers for Victory3D

Windows 95 Drivers
v4.10.01.0300, 17 Jun 1998

Windows 95 display drivers for Victory3D

Windows NT 3.51 Drivers
v4.13.00.061, 17 Dec 1996

Windows NT 3.51 display drivers for Victory3D

Windows NT 4.0 Drivers
v5.19.00.094, 8 Apr 1997

Windows NT 4.0 display drivers for Victory3D

OS/2 Warp 3 & 4 Drivers
v01.19, 12 Sep 1997

OS/2 Warp display drivers for Victory3D

OS/2 Warp 3 & 4 Drivers
v01.20.05 beta, 9 Jan 1998

OS/2 Warp display drivers for Victory3D

ELSA WinMan Suite for Windows 3.1
23 Oct 1997

WINMan works for ELSA Winner, Victory, and GLoria cards.

ELSA WinMan Suite for Windows 3.1
18 Jun 1998

WINMan works for ELSA Winner, Victory, and GLoria cards.

ELSA Windows Tools for Windows 95
15 Nov 1997

Windows Tools works for ELSA Winner, Victory, and GLoria cards.

DirectX 5.0 for ELSA Victory3D
22 Jun 1998

DirectX 5.0 that came with the Victory3D.

 

More Pictures



ELSA Victory3D 2 MB

 



ELSA Victory3D 2 MB (different board revision) and retail packaging