Integrated Technology
Frequently Asked Questions
Following are the answers to the most frequently asked questions about graphics
legacy products from Rendition®.
Please note: The last fully developed reference drivers available are for the NT4 and Windows 98 operating systems. Drivers for newer operating systems are not available nor under development
- Reference Drivers
- What are reference drivers?
- Why would I want reference drivers?
- Rendition Board Manufacturers
- v2x00 based graphics cards
- v1000 based graphics cards
- Graphics cards no longer supported
- Operating Systems Support
- What Windows operating systems are 'officially' supported?
- Where can I get a Windows NT 4 reference driver?
- Does Rendition support Windows 2000?
- Does Rendition support Windows XP?
- Does Rendition support Windows ME?
- Where can I get Linux drivers?
- Does Rendition support OS/2?
- Does Rendition support BeOS?
- Does Rendition support Windows 3.1?
- Does Rendition support QNX?
- What about other operating systems?
Reference Drivers:
Rendition provides reference drivers as a courtesy to our developers and end-users.
These drivers are unsupported, may not work properly on your hardware, and
do not contain the enhanced features and utilities often provided by board
makers. Use at your own risk.
What are reference drivers?
Reference drivers are provided by Rendition to our chip customers. They
then use these drivers as a starting point in creating their supported release
drivers. In the process of creating these supported drivers, a board maker
typically debugs and optimizes the reference drivers, as well as adds enhanced
utilities and features specific to their card.
Why would I want reference drivers?
The supported drivers provided by your board manufacturer have been thoroughly
tested and optimized on your exact hardware, and are backed by a dedicated
support staff. But occasionally new release drivers lag the reference drivers
by several months. If an application or game you wish to run requires certain
features or bug fixes that have not been incorporated into the release drivers
yet, your only resort may be to use the reference drivers. You should switch
back to the supported release drivers as soon as they have been brought up
to date.
Reference drivers may be downloaded here.
Rendition Board Manufacturers:
Graphics cards using rendition graphics chips are supported by the original manufacturers. Following is a list of links to pages with downloadable drivers for Rendition-based cards.
v2x00 based graphics cards
v1000 based graphics cards
Graphics cards no longer supported online. Archived
drivers for some of these boards may be found at
WinDrivers.com.
Operating Systems Support:
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