ATi Xpert 2000 (Rage 128 VR)

Technical details
Name:	Xpert 2000
Company:	Array Technologies Inc.
Chipset:	ATI 215R4BASA22 at 80 MHz
Bus:	AGP 2x
RAM:	32 MB SDRAM 8 ns 64 bit at 120 MHz
DAC:	integrated 250 MHz 32 bit
Connectors:	VGA
PCI ID	VENDOR 1002 DEVICE 5246
FCC-ID:	?
Manufactured:	1999

This card uses the Rage128 VR chip that has only a 64 bit memory interface.

The Rage128 has for 3D a two pixel pipeline, twin cache architecutre with a 8 kB cache for texels as well as an 8 kB cache for writing pixels back to the framebuffer. Also DVD playback support was improved by adding hardware IDCT. The Rage128 was manufactured with various clockings and memory sizes.
The Rage 128 dropped ATI CIF support (ATIs own proprietary 3D rendering API).

ATi Rage 128 Driver
VESA Info

ATi Rage 128 DVD comparison (footage scene from Fifth Element DVD):


Notes:
System used:
P2 233 MHz on i440LX chipset.
Ati Rage128 AGP 90 MHz, SB16
graphics mode 1024x768x32 Bit

Ati DVD Player 3.2.0.1
Rage128 driver 6.01-CD68-1C

The Rage128 added IDCT acceleration support (inverse discrete cosine transformation)
(the Rage II had just Motion Compensation)

While the official requirement check at the installation of the DVD player warns that it recommends a P2 300 MHz
the DVD playback runs pretty well on the P2 233 MHz. Quality is also good.
There is a stutter near the end, but the dvd was mounted over network using a rather cpu hungry realtek network card.
I tried from HDD and the system kept being responsive, so with a real DVD drive in DMA mode it should run even better.
Maybe even a lower end CPU is able to play DVD with a Rage128.

The latest driver for the Rage128 did not work, so I had to install an older one.

DVD Menu worked, no problems with PAL resolutions.

I was quite a bit surprised that it runs so well.