Hercules Terminator 3D/DX
| Technical details | |
| Name: | Terminator 3D/DX |
| Company: | Hercules Computer Technology Inc |
| Chipset: | S3 ViRGE 86C375 at 50 MHz |
| Bus: | PCI |
| RAM: | 4 MB EDO DRAM 35ns 64 bit at 50 MHz |
| DAC: | integrated 170 MHz 8/15/16/24/32 bit |
| Connectors: | VGA, VESA |
| PCI-ID: | VENDOR 5333 DEVICE 8A01 |
| FCC-ID: | EW65T5BPLP |
| Manufactured: | 1997 |
This chipset has the ViRGE On Board - (ViRGE = Virtual Reality Graphics Engine) one of the first cards for PC with 3D acceleration features in hardware. Still, it was often slower than rendering scenes by software rendering with the CPU. So it was soon nicknamed "3D decelerator". S3 introduced their own graphics API for 3D acceleration called S3D with a few games supporting it (Tomb Raider, Descent II, Terminal Velocity, Mech Warrior 2, ...) The S3 ViRGE/DX series incorporates the same 2D graphics core as the S3 Trio64V2. The S3 ViRGE/DX has a optimized 3D core giving an increase of 40% at the same clock as the S3 ViRGE.
S3 Drivers
VESA Info of ViRGEs with older 1.x VESA BIOS
VESA Info of ViRGEs with newer 2.0 VESA BIOS
Specification table at Wikipedia
Detailed review at Vintage 3D
archived S3 ViRGE/DX product overview
S3 VBE20 3.18 driver and speed tool
